Example sentences of "[prep] [be] hold to " in BNC.
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| 1 | City were looking to make the effort for a promotion spot when entertaining a side from the bottom half of the table , after being held to a draw last week . |
| 2 | The limit to which the RCM was prepared to go in this matter was revealed in March 1939 , when Grunpeter was told that his salary was to be held to £2 a week , a sum ‘ which will make it impossible to continue my work at the camp as resident minister ’ . |
| 3 | Elections will then have to be held to chose the 300 members of the lower house , to be called the State Duma . |
| 4 | It could be believed that God , whatever was understood by God , was equally close to all times and places ; that no particular period , and no particular events , were to be held to be more revelatory of God than others . |
| 5 | One response which can be made to the gap which exists between the world in which Christianity came into being and the present world is to allow what is to be held to be essentially normative for the religion to reside in the past . |
| 6 | It is said that if the Logos is to be conceived to be in some sense male , then equally the Spirit is to be held to be female . |
| 7 | It would be wrong to treat this case as a decision on the application of section 6. which was clearly not in the court 's contemplation , but it may be permissible to comment that if an offence of this kind is to be held to be sufficiently serious to justify a substantial community service order , the scheme of the Act , with its albeit clumsy attempt to raise the public perception of the severity of community sentences , seems destined to failure . |
| 8 | He argues that in the absence of diminishing returns to production of the intermediate or final good , or some element of product differentiation at intermediate or final levels , or the need for a firm 's intermediate product division to be held to being competitive , then vertically integrated firms will not participate in the intermediate good market . |
| 9 | Does this make the Treasury bill unsaleable , and therefore have to be held to maturity by the current holder ? |