Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [adv] held " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , with the camcorder firmly held in both hands and braced lightly against the forehead , stand with your feet slightly apart and your elbows tucked firmly into your sides … and relax . |
| 2 | A by-election at La Caverne-Phoenix on June 11 , 1989 , was won by an MSM-MLP-backed candidate , who took the seat previously held by the opposition Mouvement militant mauricien ( MMM ) . |
| 3 | In Ayr , the seat formerly held by Mr George Younger , the former defence secretary , with a majority of only 182 , his would-be successor Mr Phil Gallie forced a recount in a seat Labour was certain of winning . |
| 4 | The Republic of Yemen was welcomed as a member of the United Nations on May 23 , and sent a unified delegation to the Arab League summit in Baghdad [ see pp. 37472-73 ] , where on May 29 it was agreed with the heads of state of the other three Arab Co-operation Council members ( Egypt , Iraq and Jordan ) that the Republic of Yemen would hold the seat formerly held by North Yemen . |
| 5 | Effectively he was immersed in Albanian politics , although in February 1921 , at the request of Sir Basil Thomson [ q.v. ] of Scotland Yard 's Special Branch , he travelled to Germany for a secret meeting with Talaat , the Turk generally held responsible for the post-war Armenian massacres . |
| 6 | In the past , respect and awe for their mother have been enough to ensure that her children toed the line , and for her part the Queen always held out hope that their difficulties would be resolved . |
| 7 | By the sixteenth century the initiative long held by the defender , surrendered in the late fourteenth century , had been largely regained . |
| 8 | This tower was never the property of the Jesuit Church as the town tenaciously held on to it for fire-watching . |
| 9 | Commanche Run 's neck victory over Baynoun in the 1984 St Leger gave Piggott his twenty-eighth Classic , breaking the record previously held by Frank Buckle with twenty-seven wins between 1792 and 1827 . |
| 10 | The place always held affection for him . |
| 11 | During 1941 the Mastership of Dulwich College fell vacant and Gilkes , wishing naturally to return to his old school and occupy the place once held by his father , applied . |
| 12 | The Court saw no mandatory language in the text of the Convention , and contrasted it with the language of the Hague Service of Process Convention — a contrast which was to prove a source of embarrassment when the court later held that the Service Convention was not mandatory either . |
| 13 | He had a marvellous game , did n't waste a pass , won all his tackles , laid on both Martin Foyle 's goals , obviously Martin Foyle back in the side , took his goals so well ; really put himself about and Steve Foster at the back really held things together when erm things could have gone really calamitously . |
| 14 | But the counter-argument still held good : that it was the operational control and not the manufacture of a weapon system that made it independent . |
| 15 | From 1873 to 1945 , 19 out of 23 Attorneys-General and over half the Solicitors-General later held high judicial office . |
| 16 | At the Council in the Marches of Wales the Queen 's Attorney , the Queen 's Solicitor , the Clerk of the Council , and the Clerk of the Signet all held by life patents . |
| 17 | With the hawk still held in place smooth out the mortar for the length of the hawk |
| 18 | It was hoped that the normality rating task would assist in deciding which stimuli were inconsistent with the schema previously held . |
| 19 | Getting slowly to her feet , she went to stand in front of him , the bedcover still held awkwardly round her . |
| 20 | The Art of Ancient Mexico , the catalogue of the exhibition recently held at the Hayward Gallery ( closed 6 December 1992 ) is confined to the art of Mexico and the Mayan empire . |
| 21 | As the government forces recaptured towns and villages , the army reportedly held ‘ kangaroo courts ’ and executed anyone suspected of joining or assisting the invasion force . |
| 22 | Her elbows propped on the table , the cup still held between her palms , she watched the pale weak sun climb above the horizon and draw glistening prisms from rain-soaked hedgerows and grass , giving beauty to the flat landscape . |
| 23 | In a shared property , is the tenancy jointly held or are residents individual licensees ? |
| 24 | The information already held on computer for regular operations is only yielding a fraction of its true potential — potential to contribute directly to the bottom line , if analysed with a marketing strategy in mind . |
| 25 | The major concern for clients in debt recovery work is reporting each stage of each case , and this report facility , linked with the information already held on computer , will provide an opportunity for reports to be prepared to clients ' specifications on any given timescale . |
| 26 | Although much remained the same as before — the new electorate constituted but one-thirtieth of the population , 31 boroughs still had fewer than 300 electors in each , voting remained by open ballot ( secret ballots were considered rather un-English ) , and the aristocracy still held great sway politically — the act precipitated important changes both within and outside the House of Commons . |
| 27 | But every aspiring new band in the country also held a belief in their own importance , talented and untalented alike . |
| 28 | It was not thickly populated or well defended , but it was much larger than the islands the English already held in the Caribbean , so it provided land for English emigrants for some years . |
| 29 | This is the position apparently held by various government ministers in the period 1979-81 , when sterling was allowed to soar . |
| 30 | It is suggested that this could be faster were it not for the introduced American Mink which may be occupying the position once held by Polecats in the habitat . |