Example sentences of "held [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What seemed to be a simple matter when merely held as a mental question , verbally unframed and with no thought given to response , appears as a simply impossible problem when it has actually to be put down on paper . |
| 2 | This treatment would appear to be in accordance with FRS 1 , which states that ‘ the cash flows included in investing activities are those related [ our italics ] to the acquisition and disposal of any asset held as a fixed asset or a current asset investment ’ ( para 24 ) . |
| 3 | After two months in prison , I heard the first news about why I was being held as a political prisoner . |
| 4 | The data is held as a two-dimensional array , each row representing a part in which each of the columns containing various data about the parts . |
| 5 | It had long been held as a general axiom — quite incorrectly , as Catalonian experience showed — that entail caused a régime of short , unstable leases and once again stood at the head of the estorbos , the impediments to progress . |
| 6 | Spare parts held as a general stock having originally cost £790 . |
| 7 | Among the lands earlier ceded to the abbey of St Denis was the Vexin français , that natural bulwark between the French royal demesne and the now hostile Norman duchy , which had been held as a Norman fief , had formed part of Simon de Crépy 's state ( see p. 216 ) , and finally was reclaimed for the French crown by Philip I. The Vexin had had a comital family , in origin probably the advocates for the abbey ; but Philip had bypassed their claims , granting the territory to the young prince Louis , who met with such opposition in the area that it was not until 1119 that his possession was secured . |
| 8 | On 6 February 1991 the judge held as a preliminary point that the cause of action was statute-barred . |
| 9 | It is planned to be held as an annual event until the end of the decade . |
| 10 | From 1063 to 1202 , the duchy of Gascony was held with Aquitaine by the counts of Poitou , but it was , unlike Poitou , held as an autonomous domain . |
| 11 | Superseded dictionary material is held as an on-line archive in the database . |
| 12 | A relatively low balance of cash can be held as the day-to-day operations of a bank 's customers — cash deposits and withdrawals — create an offsetting phenomenon . |
| 13 | Having held off a prolonged second-half challenge from Leicester in Saturday 's cup semi-final , the Quins later learned the Rugby Football Union had rejected Orrell 's appeal for the league game to be switched to Easter Saturday , when Lancashire meet Cornwall in the ADT county final at Twickenham . |
| 14 | Sixty-three legionnaires had held off a Mexican force of 2,000 soldiers for a whole day , at the end of which five legionnaires had been left alive ; these five , thirsty , hungry and out of ammunition , had bayonet charged the Mexicans . |
| 15 | Behind the scrum — where Ian Hunter will have to prove he is fully recovered after a spate of leg injuries — Rob Andrew , as suspected , has held off the late challenge of Ellwood , though coach Ian McGeechan will certainly want him to do more to compromise the enemy back row . |
| 16 | The decline of the West Indian sugar economy , and the near-complete ability of the US cotton economy to supply its own black labour through the reproduction of its gender-balanced slave population , lessened the vested interest which might otherwise have held off the evangelical/humanitarian reformers rather longer . |
| 17 | The winner was Barry Fullerton of Ballymena Scott Rooftiles , who with Harold Brennan ( CB Hire/Kings Moss CC ) just held off the big bunch by 28 two seconds . |
| 18 | Under the affordable-housing programme , houses valued at under $67,500 and apartment complexes are held off the open market for 90 days after a thrift is seized by the government . |
| 19 | Mountain Crash , stable-companion of Carl 's Choice , held off the Daily Telegraph Trophy holder , Fort Hall , with reasonable comfort in the Ladies ' and Richard Hunt gained more admirers when following up his Higham win by catching Manor Mieo on the line in the Intermediate . |
| 20 | At the end of August talks were held between the Chief Minister P. K. Mahanta , the All Bodo Students Union ( ABSU ) and the central government observer and then Minister of State for Welfare , Rajendra Kumari Bajpai . |
| 21 | On Feb. 21 the first meeting was held between the new government and the trade unions , but Podkrepa refused to attend the meeting with Dimitrov and other Cabinet members because the CITUB 's chair , Krustyu Petkov , was also invited . |
| 22 | Bilateral meetings were held between the Prime Ministers of Greece and Turkey [ see p. 38786 ] , and of India and Pakistan , while African National Congress president Nelson Mandela and South African President F. W. de Klerk also addressed the gathering . |
| 23 | As he was held between the conflicting pressures of wind and water , so he was caught between the desire to reach Mariana and offer her comfort and the need to husband his remaining strength — but he knew that the husbanding of his strength was paramount if they were to survive . |
| 24 | The Act gives people the chance to view files held on them and to correct any false information they may contain ; excluding files held for a wide class of reasons under the heading of ‘ security ’ . |
| 25 | These posts are often held for a limited term by senior academic members of the university . |
| 26 | There had been a bitter dispute in the college ever since a group of young fellows returning after the war had voted many of the old fellows out of the college offices they had held for a long time . |
| 27 | Their eyes held for a long time and then he rested back on his elbows and looked at the treetops , his face suddenly serious . |
| 28 | The settlor had a life interest and the funds were then held for a specified class as the settlor should appoint but in default thereof for certain beneficiaries . |
| 29 | In their study at Lakeshore High School in the USA they showed that the actual performance of students was interpreted by the school staff in terms of the expectations held for a particular student . |
| 30 | This was held for an unexpired term of six years ‘ from Christmas last ’ at £140 per annum ; it was offered ( fortunately unsuccessfully ) by the new proprietor , Mr Collier , for £600 . |