Example sentences of "[adv] [be] hold [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has long been held to look like a cello , but the elliptical window above the door looks like a beak to me , so that with the round windows above the upper façade looks nothing so much as a chick wearing a Napoleonic hat . |
| 2 | So be held to go to another branch |
| 3 | With the creation of a formidable nuclear force , the Soviet homeland can no longer be held to ransom against Socialism 's expansion ; as the West 's capacity for direct intervention is blunted by ‘ the growing might of the Socialist camp ’ , the ideological struggle is not only safer , but free to intensify . |
| 4 | It was in the interests of the Great Powers that they could not be held bound by a treaty to which they had not formally become a party while , as will be seen , a number of the exceptions to the classic rule enabled them to impose their will upon weaker entities . |
| 5 | NEWCASTLE will not be held to ransom in the chase for QPR 's Pounds 5 million man Les Ferdinand . |
| 6 | But at that time the plaintiff had no actual existence ; was not a human being ; and was not a passenger — in fact , as Lord Coke says , the plaintiff was then pars viscerum matris , and we have not been referred to any authority or principle to show that a legal duty has ever been held to arise towards that which is not in esse in fact and has only a fictitious existence in law , so as to render a negligent act a breach of that duty . |
| 7 | Endearment , where a measure of fondness may reasonably be held to exist between two persons , may be offered as a defence in acts which are not themselves inevitably offences ( namely , those covered by the law on indecent assaults etc . ) |
| 8 | Rory cried , feeling the weight of guilt settle on her shoulders like a suffocating cloak , even though she knew in her heart she could n't be held to blame for this tragedy . |
| 9 | There is nothing more annoying than a computer system that works beautifully , say , in a library , and then one goes in at nine thirty in the morning and you ca n't get books out because the power has gone off , and if we are sure to go on having a society with industrial disputes , we want a system that is not capable of being completely ruined by one small section of workers deciding not to work on a particular day , and so I think while we 're putting them in , while we want to put them in in a way which that is compatible , we also need to think of having a kind of fail-safe system , particularly in the sort of more serious applications such as medicine and transport and so on , whereby we ca n't be held to ransom by very a small group of people , or indeed by just some technical fault , such as a power failure or something of this kind . |
| 10 | A second referendum would then be held to coincide with the next general election , due by November 1993 , when voters would be asked to make a straight choice between the MMP proposal and the existing system . |