Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] [be] hold " in BNC.
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| 1 | To meet objections to this , the Commission added that an individual should only be held where , quite apart from being for an ‘ arrestable offence ’ , the arrest was also ‘ necessary ’ . |
| 2 | The Tessa legislation specifies that the account must not be held on behalf of another person . |
| 3 | But camapigners insist that if they are to trust the aircraft information must not be held back from them . |
| 4 | Sir Derek believes he should not be held to blame since the fraud occurred in the accounts of International Signal and Control , which had received a ‘ clean ’ audit when Ferranti bought the company two years ago . |
| 5 | Young people should have the right of independent counselling , and should not be held in police cells . |
| 6 | The fact that Baudrillard 's name has been linked with the Situationists should not be held against them . |
| 7 | They took comfort from Dr Kohl 's apparent embrace of the need for more detailed discussion of the Delors proposals and more powers for the European Parliament and restated their belief that a conference on economic and monetary union should not be held hastily . |
| 8 | They took comfort from Dr Kohl 's apparent embrace of the need for more detailed discussion of the Delors proposals and more powers for the European Parliament and restated their belief that a conference on economic and monetary union should not be held hastily . |
| 9 | Certainly , to the accountant , there is no reason why those doctors who are high spenders in their prescribing habits , should not be held to be financially accountable for their decisions . |
| 10 | Lord Rawdon told the Committee of the whole House of Lords , which read his bill clause by clause in May , that he thought a debtor should be able to swear to the real cause of his debt and , if there was no question of fraud or any intention to abscond , he should not be held in custody for more than eight days and be discharged on filing common bail . |
| 11 | The Council agreed that the company should not be held to the requirement to construct the line from the ‘ Robin Hood' ’ down Elmers End Road to the Beckenham boundary , unless Beckenham U.D.C. constructed a continuation to Elmers End Station . |
| 12 | This states that , where a player commits an act of foul play which has not been detected by the match officials , that player 's union has the discretion to cite that player to show cause why he should not be held accountable in the same way as a player who has been ordered off the field of play . |
| 13 | ‘ The proposition need not be questioned that where an Act purports , invalidly , to require a payment to be made , leaving the liability to be enforced by means of an action in which the invalidity of the statute is an available defence , a person who might have relied upon that defence but has paid without raising it should not be held , just because he was obeying the de facto command of a legislature , to have made the payment involuntarily . |
| 14 | These include procedures designed to ensure that : ( 1 ) no alleged contemnor shall be in any doubt as to the charges which are made against him ; ( 2 ) he shall be given a proper opportunity of showing cause why he should not be held in contempt of court ; ( 3 ) if an order of committal is made , the accused ( a ) knows precisely in what respects he has been found to have offended and ( b ) is given a written record of those findings and of the sentence passed upon him . |
| 15 | However , Weatherbury people began to protest publicly that he should not be held responsible for the crime . |
| 16 | An engagement party is traditionally held by the future bridegroom 's parents , but there is no reason why one should not be held by the bride 's family , or by both families in their own home or elsewhere , particularly if the two families live in different areas . |
| 17 | The title is fine , and the author 's name should not be held against him . |
| 18 | Pickets handing out leaflets to passers by may thereby cause harassment , alarm or distress , but they should not be held to be guilty of an offence on that account alone . |
| 19 | In practice , it may well be , that the police give effect to the spirit of the decision in Beatty v. Gilbanks that a man should not be held to commit an unlawful act when he does an act that is otherwise lawful merely because those who oppose him respond with violence or the threat of it . |
| 20 | On that occasion , in contrast to Kohl 's increased pressure for early all-German elections ( following Christian Democratic setbacks in two Land elections on May 13 — see p. 37467 ) , de Maizière declared that " all German elections should not be held until the Soviet Union [ was ] fully satisfied on the external aspects of unification " . |
| 21 | This non-reciprocal pattern of usage is closely linked with expectations that the younger person should not be held back as they make their way through an English-speaking educational system by an over-familiarity with Patwa . |
| 22 | That is exactly what has happened in Southampton where , in spite of all the professional advice , the Government committed an offence against the public purse for which they should still be held accountable . |
| 23 | With no airbrake the glider will float some distance even at low speed , and it must still be held off for a proper touchdown . |
| 24 | Filing requirements still apply when , say , the articles are altered informally , and an agm must still be held unless the company has opted out by elective resolution . |
| 25 | Thus if it is held that really we are substances ( Descartes ) , then , it would seem , it must also be held that all we can be aware of in perception are modifications of ourselves , which are , at most , the representations in us of modifications of other substances . |
| 26 | Discussions should also be held when relevant systems are being considered during the early stages , and when some specialist input ( ie from the organisation ) would be advantageous to the modelling exercises . |
| 27 | The Act of 1988 should also be held not to be discriminatory . |
| 28 | I have also enclosed an article to add to the considerable amount of reference material you should now be holding on this subject . |
| 29 | Although the pupil or parent may now see what is in the file , it should otherwise be held in confidence . |
| 30 | Authors should never be held responsible for their publishers ' blurbs , and so one is spared the embarrassment of assessing the claim that Hugh Trevor-Roper is ‘ Britain 's greatest living historian ’ . |