Example sentences of "[modal v] [be] hold [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That they should be held outside the US was for reasons which follow . |
| 2 | The militants say talks should be held under United Nations auspices in Geneva , on the basis of self-determination . |
| 3 | The leaders of Kosovo Albanian political groupings on Aug. 14 rejected a proposal by Panic that talks should be held in Belgrade on the Kosovo question , insisting that any talks between Kosovo Albanians and Serbs should be held under international auspices at the forthcoming London Conference . |
| 4 | A condition of the setting up of the Executive was that tri-partite talks should be held between the Westminster and Dublin governments and those Northern Ireland parties which were prepared to take part in the Executive . |
| 5 | Such a cabinet may contain a battery of fluorescent tubes , and samples should be held about one foot away from it . |
| 6 | Grinders should be held at a shallow angle of between 15 and 30° to the work when they are used to abrade the surface . |
| 7 | In paragraph 8(b) of his affidavit the coroner states that a verdict of natural causes aggravated by lack of care is relevant only if an inquest is held and that here he was concerned with the antecedent question whether an inquest should be held at all . |
| 8 | 16–11- That he would contribute £50 and proposed that services should be held at Keills and Ballygrant alternately at the usual hours of public worship on the Sabbath . |
| 9 | She suggested that the wedding reception should be held at the Redmond house , telling Julia that it would help her mother to get over the loss of her house if she could organise the wedding . |
| 10 | Calling for a " greening of politics " , Gorbachev said that a planned 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development in Brasilia should be held at " summit level " . |
| 11 | For instance , demand management might require that government spending should be held at a high level to keep the economy at full pressure , while Labour 's plans also called for a high level of State spending . |
| 12 | Gregory claims that it was the king who insisted that the consecration should be held at Metz , out of affection for the candidate , but this may be a euphemism for saying that consecration in Clermont was too dangerous . |
| 13 | Suppose by mistake or accident he fails to repay on the day named , is it fair that he should be held to the terms of the deed ? |
| 14 | There was no reason to ignore the general presumption that parties who agree to an arbitration clause should be held to their bargain . |
| 15 | No one , suggested a judge in a leading case , should be held to be guilty of theft by reason of conduct to which no moral obloquy could reasonably attach . |
| 16 | This is put forward as an alternative basis on which the transfer should be held to be void . |
| 17 | In my opinion , a document should be held to be void ( as opposed to voidable ) only when the element of consent to it is totally lacking , that is , more concretely , when the transaction which the document purports to effect is essentially different in substance or in kind from the transaction intended . |
| 18 | A separate dimension of the social enterprise perspective is that if we view the company as a public or social body , albeit under private control , then its directors and managers should be held to requirements of disclosure and standards of ethical conduct appropriate to those carrying out public functions . |
| 19 | The critical question , the answer to which underlies any statement concerning jurisdictional limits , is whose relative opinion on which matters should be held to be authoritative ? |
| 20 | Distinctions between errors within and errors going to jurisdiction should be discarded ; any error of law should be held to be jurisdictional if the case depended upon it . |
| 21 | For example , the two competing public interests in employment cases are : ( a ) a person should be held to his promise ; and ( b ) every person should be free to exercise his skill and experience to the best advantage of himself and of those who may want to employ him ( see Lord Atkinson in Morris ( Herbert ) v Saxelby [ 1916 ] 1 AC 688 ) . |
| 22 | Parents should be held to some degree , not necessarily to a tune of a thousand pound , but they should be made in some way , to be responsible for their |
| 23 | It is a matter for the coroner to decide whether the inquest should be held with a jury : section 19(3) ( d ) of the Act of 1988 might suggest that a jury is appropriate in this case . |
| 24 | It is at this stage that , if appropriate , consultation should be held with |
| 25 | The County Court judge agreed with the trustee and ordered that the matrimonial home should be held on trust for the trustee in bankruptcy and Mrs Flint in equal shares . |
| 26 | On May 28 in a speech to the UNIP national council , Kaunda again criticized the multiparty system as likely to lead to " tribal conflicts " , but promised that there would be a free vote in the nationwide referendum which he proposed should be held on the issue [ see p. 37523 ] . |
| 27 | Momoh , who had hitherto firmly rejected the demand that legislative elections in May should be held on a multiparty democratic basis , suddenly announced on March 28 that he welcomed the proposal that Sierra Leone should become a multiparty democracy . |
| 28 | Attorney General Dick Thornburgh formally left the Cabinet on Aug. 9 , after a federal appeals court ruled on Aug. 6 that a special election should be held on Nov. 5 to fill the Senate seat of the late John Heinz — although Thornburgh had made known his intention to contest the vacant seat , his resignation from the government had been deferred pending a judicial examination of the constitutionality of Pennsylvania 's special election statute . |
| 29 | Under the chairmanship of Prince Norodom Sihanouk , the SNC agreed that UN-supervised regional elections in Cambodia 's 20 provinces should be held on the basis of proportional representation . |
| 30 | On Dec. 21 President Alia accepted that the poll should be held on March 1 , 1992 . |