Example sentences of "[pron] [be] hold [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Many of them are held through trusts with names like Jupiter , Venus , and Mars , registered here at Morgan-Grenfell .
2 Some of them are held to be responsible for relaxation phenomena at low temperatures while folds are of great importance in the crystallization of polymers .
3 This hypothesis is supported by the fact that most plant families that produce bird-dispersed seeds are of very wide distribution and that several of them are held to be primitive , e.g. Annonaceae , Lauraceae , while several genera conspicuous in this trait are found in both tropical America and Australasia .
4 But I am holding in a dead zone .
5 But I am held by the sound of Summerchild 's voice .
6 I 'm using it to ho , I 'm holding at it .
7 exactly , yeah and we can do that with everything , we can do that with everything , this is my perception and that 's your perception of this thing that I 'm holding in my hand , everything that we 've seen have that ability you know , we 've got the ability to do that with everything , what we need to do sometimes is walk around the issue if you like and look at it from another perspective and , and this is what we 're doing with Ethiopia , now , erm , the good section again was looking at images and particularly the fact that a lot of images are very negative and throwing an alternative view , the second section we 're looking at news coverage which is very sketchy , erm , it does n't provide a complete picture at all , and this third section well you saw what that 's about there
8 as I was holding on a particular images and create and then become those energy
9 ‘ But I never connected the baby I was holding with the baby who was kidnapped .
10 To soften the blow I said it was only because I was held in such high esteem in the football world that I had to get rid of any player or , as in his case , friend , who showed any sign of being a no-hoper .
11 Apart from validating the contracts , overall project management arrangements and systems and procedures against available documentation , it is often necessary for the team to make site visits and carry out inspections of goods and materials belonging to the client which are held off site .
12 The virtual absence of L1 producing cells beneath the follicle associated epithelium in Peyer 's patches may induce the immunostimulatory function of these macrophage rich structures , which are held to be crucial for induction of specific mucosal immunity .
13 What a beneficial change it would be if instead it was acknowledged that these issues present tragic choices between compelling arguments which are held on both sides in good faith .
14 The acquisition search service provided by MAS is based on the list of companies for sale which are held on the Accountants ' Business Network database jointly shared by the major accounting firms .
15 The Economic Development Division maintains its own filing system ; all other divisions use the central filing system for official correspondence and papers except for certain specialised project files which are held on the divisions .
16 The conversations which are held between the March hare and the mad hatter are complete nonsense .
17 This is reflected in the syllabus for the Institute examinations which are held at centres throughout the U.K. The first and most essential requirement of any student for any professional examination is that he or she must be able to communicate in the language ( in which he or she will be examined . )
18 All are welcome to the circle meetings , which are held at Loreto Convent Grammar School , Dunham Road , Altrincham , on the first Wednesday of each month .
19 Another function of the Committee is its responsibility for the overall supervision of the so-called " collections " of pools of biotechnology materials , which are held at a number of research stations , and which make genetic material available to research workers in other institutions .
20 There are also a number of trophies which are held for one year ; the Willis Graham Cup is awarded for the champion berry in the show , judged solely by weight .
21 This is reflected in the fairs , festivals and sports events which are held throughout the year and which attract many sightseers .
22 Most recently a change of heart on the part of the athletics authorities now enables Top competitors To earn very large sums which are held in ‘ trust funds ’ .
23 DID you know that UK readers can become members of an Irish railway society and attend some of their meetings which are held in London .
24 Standard Life run about 30 one-day courses each year , which are held in hotels throughout the UK .
25 At this point , the Taxman 's wife expressed moral outrage at the discovery that her husband would , without compunction , report her misdeeds , or those of her daughter , to the authorities , and the Philosopher was left with a sense of having stumbled upon a set of basic moral presumptions which are held in common by one sex , and entirely inverted in the case of the other — a looking-glass reversal of priorities and values .
26 Each stage is characterized by a simultaneous increase in abstraction and particularization , which are held in tension with one another , and each is taken to present greater difficulties for the subject attempting to resolve these into its own development .
27 A survey of science libraries in Scotland , for example , revealed that apart from British Standards , which are held in a number of locations , holdings of other standards in Scotland are minimal .
28 There are other goods which are held in common ownership , such as the air , the sea and common land , which it is difficult to prevent people from using because property rights in them are not assigned to individual owners .
29 I do n't pay at the many markets which are held in Cleveland .
30 These reserves , which are held in the Exchange Equalisation Fund , may be used to intervene in the foreign exchange market to influence the exchange rate between sterling and other currencies .
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