Example sentences of "[noun pl] held to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet the western demo- cracies held to their policy that there could be no intervention in Spanish internal affairs and that if the Spanish people wanted to be rid of Franco , they must achieve this by their own efforts alone . |
| 2 | You see the only way that you can really discipline them is when you have a school where the rules have been very , very strict from the moment that they went into that school and they have had their noses held to the grindstone with work up to their brows and they just do n't think of being tiresome and anybody who is tiresome is pulled out and put in a special room on their own , called a sin bin an which is rather boring and made to work even harder ! |
| 3 | Thus , in 1964 only 22 per cent of Americans held to the view that government could be trusted only , ‘ some of the time ’ whereas this had increased to 37 per cent by 1968 , 45 per cent by 1972 , 61 per cent by 1974 and 73 per cent by 1980 . |
| 4 | Alexei held to the opinion that they could not be naturally evolved , and thought that the single horn which projected from the forehead of each had been the whim probably of some Second Empire geneticist . |
| 5 | 1981 : 78 ) , there are the attributes held to be exemplified in the half-timbered , suburban , semi-detached , middle-class house : an ambivalent position in relation to town and country , an expression of individualism extended in the modern do-it-yourself tradition , a concern with compromise and a rejection of extremes , all set within statements about tradition and nationalism . |
| 6 | She was on her knees above him , back arched , body shaking , hands held to her head as if to block out pain . |
| 7 | What would happen if there was a revolution and the monarchy was overthrown , Parliament dissolved and all its members imprisoned , and new elections held to a Constitutional Convention which draws up a new constitution with a presidential system of government and a single chamber assembly ? |
| 8 | Elections held to new interim National Council in June 1990 [ see p. 37549 ] . |
| 9 | ( 5 ) the clarification of such key issues as the meaning of " study skills " ( 6 ) the review and evaluation of the inservice events held to date , and the potential of other inservice developments for the work of the panel |