Example sentences of "be hold by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The close links between open communication in general in these firms , and access to local knowledge which will be held by lower-level individuals , should be clear . |
| 2 | From 1 April 1993 all the costs of part time posts ( at all grades ) will be held by regional postgraduate deans . |
| 3 | Every time he found one he held all the flapping notices down one by one , and read through lists of hockey teams , and announcements of meetings to be held by religious societies . |
| 4 | This latter conclusion would be held by many psychologists and by a few sociologists , and it is a consistent one , given positivist premises . |
| 5 | The former is that more or less subconscious attitude to sedimentation which still seems to be held by many ( if not most ) stratigraphers , though not by students of Recent sediments . |
| 6 | Cnut 's relations with the see of London seem to have been poor , and on the death of Bishop Ælfwig he could well have wished it to be held by one of his own supporters . |
| 7 | There should be clips attached to the bath frame at the top , and at the base the panel will be held by sticky pads located on a floor-mounted batten . |
| 8 | Official posts could be held by four principal types of tenure : durante bene placito , or during the King 's pleasure , which was the least secure ; quam diu se bene gesserit , or during good behaviour , which placed the holder a little more firmly in the saddle ; for life , which made him virtually irremovable from his office , although he could , for flagrant misdemeanours , be suspended from its functions ; and hereditary tenure , which converted the post to a transmissible freehold property . |
| 9 | She hoped that negotiations could be carried out along with those with Sweden and Finland and that a second referendum could be held by 1995 . |
| 10 | The man was too weak for chloroform and had to be held by two of the dispensers , yet he did not utter a groan throughout the operation . |
| 11 | Similarly , a study group of the Association of Municipal Authorities proposed that records of void and under-occupied land and property should be held by all public sector bodies . |
| 12 | At the extreme , if it turned out that one opinion was in a minority in every group or constituency mandating its one representative , then the gathering of representatives would be unanimous in its support for the other opinion , while the minority opinion would be entirely unrepresented , even though , in principle , it could be held by 49 per cent of those taking part in the mandating process . |
| 13 | Its appeal to radical Liberals and to the middle class offered the possibility of forming an electoral alliance between the main Opposition parties in the General Election which was due to be held by 1940 . |
| 14 | The first suggests that so long as the leadership of extreme right-wing groups continues to be held by those who have absorbed the culture of these groups , then the traditions of the antisemitic ideology of conspiracy will continue in such groups . |
| 15 | A joint declaration by opposition groups and government parties issued after the country 's first round-table talks said that free elections should be held by next May 6 at the latest . |
| 16 | In order for strategic planning and decision making to be effective , a different set of values needs to be held by senior officials . |
| 17 | For example lindane , or gamma benzene hexachloride , is an insecticide found in a shampoo called Quellada Application PC — more often prescribed for scabies — and in Lorexane , which , although now withdrawn from the market , may still be held by some chemists . |