Example sentences of "held [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The effect of a loss in confidence would be a desire to convert dollars into gold at the official price , and accordingly the system would collapse since the most widely held reserve asset would cease to be accepted as such . |
| 2 | In 1984 Young married Lilian Lawson , another prelingually deaf person of Scottish birth , who has held administrative posts since 1981 and has been Head of Administration since 1988 . |
| 3 | But beware , this tameness leads them to be very bold in defence of their nest , and they will laugh a strident ‘ heh , heh , heh ’ as they clip you across the ear with a stiffly held wing-tip ! |
| 4 | This was not always so : in Senior ( 1899 ) a man who belonged to a religious sect called the Peculiar People refused to call a doctor to his child , who subsequently died ; he was held guilty of manslaughter on the ground that he had committed an unlawful act ( wilful neglect of the child ) which caused death . |
| 5 | There is an immediate paradox here though : attempted murder may not involve the infliction of any harm at all , since a person who shoots at another and misses may still be held guilty of attempted murder . |
| 6 | This was open to the criticism that it imposed constructive liability : a person who risked a minor assault might be held guilty of a more serious offence if ‘ actual bodily harm ’ happened to result . |
| 7 | On neither score is there any universal agreement , and many would deny that the objections are well grounded , holding that they rest on over-simplifications , and that even to the degree that Barth did move in the directions suggested , he nevertheless did not fall into the extreme positions of which he is held guilty . |
| 8 | She was held guilty under s.47 . |
| 9 | Dismissive of the ‘ corridor opportunites ’ , he fails to mention that , so far , the Foreign Secretaries of the UK and Argentina have had their first meeting since the 1982 Falklands War , that the Israeli and Soviet Foreign Ministers have got together as has the US Secretary of State with his Israeli and Egyptian counterparts , or that the two German Foreign Ministers have held extensive talks on the current crisis — all with apparently good results : quite useful when several of these countries have no diplomatic relations with each other . |
| 10 | It has held extensive meetings with EC officials on proposed Investment Services and Capital Adequacy Directives . |
| 11 | Aldus Corp signed a letter of intent to acquire After Hours Software Inc , a privately held 33-employee Los Angeles developer of personal information management products — TouchBase , Datebook — for Apple Computer Inc 's Macintosh . |
| 12 | In no other country on earth have ancient traditions and their ritualized expression been held intact in their undiluted form from time immemorial . |
| 13 | If it is in a smooth plastic pot , and there is insufficient root coming through to prevent movement ( i.e. the plant is pot bound ) , it should be possible to slide the pot away just enough to see if the root ball is held intact by root action . |
| 14 | It was tempting to ask , in view of his once held political ambitions , whether he had ever regretted staying in business . |
| 15 | Other political prisoners released including Andrew Kwame Pianim , an economist , businessman and former chief executive of the Cocoa Marketing Board , Bombardier Mustapha Mohamed , one of Ghana 's longest held political prisoners , detained without trial since December 1982 , and Corporal Stanley Okyere and three others who had been held without charge or trial since 1983 ( see AMNESTY , April/May , p10 ) . |
| 16 | One highly ‘ political ’ Lord Chancellor — like Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone — can , if he chooses , make a considerable impact on judicial lawmaking at the highest level but , for this to be so , it is not necessary that he should have held political office or have been a Member of Parliament or a law officer . |
| 17 | This is accomplished by allowing the run from D1 to D10 to occur while pin 13 of IC2 , the clock enable pin , is held low by way of resistor R9 . |
| 18 | The resignation followed the introduction of a new Constitution adopted by the National Assembly on March 14 , which stipulated that government members had to be aged 35 or above and have held professional responsibilities for a minimum of seven years . |
| 19 | [ See p. 36626 for extension of flying rights to West Berlin to French , UK and US airlines other than the three carriers which until then had held sole operating rights . ] |
| 20 | She shuddered , completely at a loss to know what he meant , yet held helpless prisoner by the dark thrall of his warning . |
| 21 | They should have held solid at the bridge . ’ |
| 22 | Everywhere else the ground was held solid under the rain by the vast grip of the vegetation which had so rapidly sprung up . |
| 23 | ( The Supreme Court had held flag-desecration to be a form of free speech protected by the First Amendment , but this bill provided for only a $25 fine in cases of assault upon flag-burners . ) |
| 24 | It has also held discreet discussions with the Hungarian Government -although progress is slow . |
| 25 | There 's new hopes for the stalled Middle East peace process as the Palestine Liberation Organization confirms it 's held direct talks with the Israeli government . |
| 26 | The Times of Feb. 16 reported that a high-ranking Soviet delegation had held direct talks with mujaheddin leaders in Islamabad , the Pakistan capital , in an effort to settle the civil war . |
| 27 | The difference is explained by the greater likelihood of men having held pensionable jobs , both because full-time jobs held by men were more likely to have pension rights than women 's , and because , before the age of retirement , a majority of older women had either no paid job or a part-time job with no pension provision . |
| 28 | A pianist plays here several nights a week and from 15 June to 15 September a discotheque is held weekly near the swimming pool . |
| 29 | There are many local markets to explore , usually held weekly or sometimes even daily . |
| 30 | Meetings were held weekly between supervisors and headquarters field and data-processing staff , and at least once every 2 weeks between groups of fieldworkers and their supervisors to ensure good two-way communication . |