Example sentences of "[conj] [be] hold " in BNC.
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| 1 | In over 35 countries police and military officers , either in uniform or working in death squads , gunned down government critics ; in over 20 countries opponents either disappeared or were held incommunicado . |
| 2 | If there is no issue , but there are parents , or , failing them , brothers and sisters of the whole blood , then the spouse takes half the remaining estate absolutely , the other half going to parents , or being held on the ‘ statutory trusts ’ for brothers and sisters , as the case may be . |
| 3 | Too frequently I have made the mistake of buying fresh food once a week and either running out of organisational steam halfway through the week , so all the meals I had planned to cook have fallen by the wayside , or being held up at work or in some other way and grabbing fish and chips on the way home instead . |
| 4 | The reason for this is to avoid those who appointed the administrative receiver being treated as mortgagees in possession or being held liable for the receiver 's acts which would be the case were the receiver to be treated as their agent . |
| 5 | Do n't bother to struggle against the hands or arms that are holding your throat ; they will be strong . |
| 6 | and I 've re I have quite a high awareness about women 's position in society , but because of that I feel that I 've now come to reject the term feminism because erm I think it 's also harming the people who , you know , it 's harming the women that are holding on to that er , label because it is label and that is erm because it 's , because it 's a label it then it 's blocking er forms progress for women . |
| 7 | 17 Throughout our work we were acutely aware of the differing opinions that are held on a number of issues that lie at the heart of the English curriculum and its teaching . |
| 8 | Those debt and equity securities that are held for current resale would be classified as trading securities and included in the financial statements at fair value with unrealised gains and losses included in earnings . |
| 9 | These are documents sent to clients to confirm the purchase of shares or bonds that are held in custody . |
| 10 | A potential drawback of consecutive spill is that , while this method of handling synonyms can be effective in some circumstances to retrieve records that are held in a file , it is not a good method of dealing with records that are not in the file . |
| 11 | An abstract reaction mechanism , where the chemical reactions are at most second order and give a detailed mass balance when the system is closed , can be reduced to the system [ 40 ] : ( 2.5 ) unc The unc are concentrations of reactants that are held constant , giving an open system , and the hi are rate constants : thus the a and the hi are positive . |
| 12 | to reconcile and integrate the differing views of organisational objectives that are held by different individuals so that a total company objective may be recognised ( Argyris ) ; and |
| 13 | In the meantime , the Government have attempted to pull together a solution to the dilemma that arises as a result of the different views that are held by various groups . |
| 14 | Despite the relatively large range of experimental exothermicities , enthalpy and entropy work in a compensating manner to give free energies for single strand helix formation that are generally close to zero at 300 K. Free energy costs per rotor in double stranded DNA and RNA are consistent with these limiting values ; large stacking exothermicities result in a large cost in free energy for restricting a rotation that , in the upper limit ( 5.4 kJ mol -1 per rotor averaged over 12 rotors for G-C on C-G stacking ) , bears comparison with the values reported by Page & Jencks [ 20 ] for isomerisation reactions in small molecules involving severe restrictions , and at the lower limits ( 1.9 kJ mol -1 per rotor averaged over 12 rotors for A-U on A-U stacking ) with entropy changes in the melting of organic crystals [ 6 ] that are held together by weak intermolecular interactions . |
| 15 | They gave us a consolidated figure of various numbers of P W's that are held , and of the numbers of erm dead that are held . |
| 16 | They gave us a consolidated figure of various numbers of P W's that are held , and of the numbers of erm dead that are held . |
| 17 | Some have their own libraries of archaeological books for use by their members , usually containing a much wider range than are held by public libraries or are available in bookshops . |
| 18 | It was probably only my trousers that were holding him in ! ’ |
| 19 | Gazing blankly at the colour chart that was thrust into her hands , she felt as though she was falling apart at the seams , as though all the muscles and tendons that were holding her body together were snapping one by one . |
| 20 | Blake also took part in the joint planning meetings that were held between the CIA and MI6 during one of which , in December 1953 , the Berlin tunnel operation was approved . |
| 21 | In this context ‘ air ’ means the varying amounts of water as vapour or small droplets that were held suspended in the atmosphere . |
| 22 | So far I have reported myths ( and dreams ) that were held both consciously and unconsciously and indicated how these shape people 's lives . |
| 23 | A striped shirt without a collar , and trousers that were held at a slender stomach by braces , and carpet slippers in checked shades of brown , and a smell of pipe tobacco . |
| 24 | She , who had always helped lame dogs , now refused the many helping hands that were held out to her , because they only hauled her back , temporarily , into a life of comfort from which she would later have to return to reality . |
| 25 | They were unshaven or bearded , and dressed in leather and woollen breeches that were held together by scraps of hide with remnants of furs decorating their cloaks and the rims of their helms . |
| 26 | Her short , expensive dress showed a slender figure and the hands that were held out towards Felipe de Santis were as small and elegant as the hands of a dancer . |
| 27 | We must conclude that the time zone niche has not delivered the benefits that were held out for it when LIFFE was established . |
| 28 | Harry Gent , at any rate , always claimed that it arose from the numerous illegal cockfights that were held in the cellar . |
| 29 | You can stamp on toes , feet or shins ; knee him in the thigh or groin ; grab and squeeze testicles or pinch the soft inside of thighs along the trouser seam ; elbow him or her in the ribs or stomach if the person is behind you , or knee them in the belly if in front ; grab the little finger of one of the hands that is holding you round the waist or arms , and bend it backwards , forcing him or her to let go ; bite the side of the neck or slap a cheek or ear ; bash the nose with the front or back of your head ; force the head back by pressing your fingers up nostrils or squeezing the flats of your thumbs into eyes ; or even spit into eyes to make them blink . |
| 30 | ‘ Confidence in jobs remains the underlying element that is holding the property market back now , ’ he said . |