Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] hold [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women in Islam are held in very high esteem , which Westerners do n't seem to realise . |
| 2 | Cable & Wireless holds around three-quarters of the shares , the Hong Kong Government another 7 per cent and the remainder are held by outside shareholders . |
| 3 | The bulk of the remainder are held by companies who show a strong preference for holding the stock of companies with whom they have important trading connections . |
| 4 | Talks and meetings on topics of interest to nurses looking for a change in career direction are held throughout the day , and personnel and recruitment officers make themselves available to answer questions and arrange interviews for interested applicants . |
| 5 | Minority shareholdings of [ ] % in ABC GmbH and [ ] % of ABC Corp are held by the local managers . |
| 6 | Elections of a kind are held in the Soviet Union , and in many other countries which are , officially or unofficially , one-party states . |
| 7 | In contrast to this , extrinsic factors like food supply and predation are held by other workers to control the population cycles . |
| 8 | Thus we have the conventional one-address instruction format ( introduced in Chapter 1 ) where one of the operands and the result are held in the accumulator , and the store address of only the second operand has to be specified in the instruction . |
| 9 | In continuum mechanics two types of force are held to at on a body : surface tractions which act on the surface of the volume under consideration and body forces , which act throughout the volume and in the most common case are gravitational or inertial in origin . |
| 10 | And yesterday Taoiseach Albert Reynolds did not rule out the possibility of the contest being held in the province , but 24 hours later RTE chief John Sorohan said Dublin would be the most likely venue . |
| 11 | These 2 men are the guinea pigs in a unique experiment being held in the Harwell labs in Oxfordshire . |
| 12 | These 2 men are the guinea pigs in a unique experiment being held in the Harwell labs in Oxfordshire . |
| 13 | The antique fountain-pen market is in its early stages , with the first International Pen Show and Auction being held in Geneva , November 1–3 . |
| 14 | Brighton Polytechnic was established in April 1970 with the formal designation ceremony being held in February 1971 . |
| 15 | In Jones [ 1981 ] Crim LR 119 , minor abrasions and a bruise were held to be actual bodily harm , though the case was thought to be on the margins . |
| 16 | The prison , where some of the dissidents who opposed the Shahs rule were held by SAVAK , was painted up , the street were cleaned , pots of flowers were placed all along the main roads , birds in cages were hung from lamp posts , shopkeepers were given blue coats to wear . |
| 17 | The values of stocks held [ in Germany ] are to be adjusted if necessary to values equivalent to those if the stock were held in the UK . |
| 18 | The values of stocks held [ in Germany ] are to be adjusted if necessary to values equivalent to those if the stock were held in the UK . |
| 19 | Thinking is held to be an effective activity which involves mental ‘ work ’ . |
| 20 | Budget maximization is held to be both rational and necessary for survival . |
| 21 | Today it is the turn of the youngest members of the community to get into the picture , when a Bonny Baby Contest is held at the Youth Centre . |
| 22 | Today the contest is held within strict bounds and has become one of the most exotic spectacles in the Imperial calendar . |
| 23 | Thereafter , any money held by the travel agent is held on Club 18–30 's behalf . |
| 24 | Money paid to a Travel Agent is held by him on your behalf until your booking is fully confirmed when it is then held for Amsterdam Travel Service Limited . |
| 25 | Visual search is held to be multifaceted in nature , involving the growing regulation and interaction of children 's visual , linguistic and cognitive systems . |
| 26 | R.5(6) provides that a shareholder shall not exercise any voting rights in respect of any share held in breach of any part of R.5 — a breach could come about either because a shareholder is not permitted to be a shareholder or because a shareholder is holding for another person who is not permitted to be a beneficial owner . |
| 27 | Vietnam 's economic collapse is held at bay only through massive aid from Russia amounting , by one estimate , to $3m a day . |
| 28 | Each cell is held in its own compartment by a spring at the base of the pod . |
| 29 | The instrument is held in the player 's right hand , and struck with his left . |
| 30 | It is not certain that a majority of the parliament will follow him when a free vote is held on the question of where Germany 's government should be . |