Example sentences of "held to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marion stepped forward , statuesque with Conroy held to her side like Medea in her big scene . |
| 2 | The world is now full of literary critics , some held to be important , who do nothing else but write literary criticism , and they all work in universities . |
| 3 | The USA held to its position of open airways , with an international body having only a consultative role ; but it withheld the right for airlines to operate from any American point . |
| 4 | Hence , the great divide between music perceived to be ‘ authentic ’ and music held to be ‘ manufactured ’ . |
| 5 | In these transitional years of fluctuating opinion some continued to adopt a passive attitude towards fatalities , in which they sought to trace the hand of God , whilst others favoured active remedies for what they held to be primarily human failings . |
| 6 | Imre Szász , a large , solid-framed man , pointed out to me that in Hungary the Budapest accent was , for a long time , held to be inferior because it had been debased by non-Magyar and , in particular , Jewish elements , whereas the country accents were all perfectly acceptable . |
| 7 | Then he visited his friends — too often for their good for he held to his heathenism with all the tenacity with which he had clung to his beloved Wallowa Valley ’ . |
| 8 | It was important to Trent that he held to that word ; as it had been important to him never to use the term ‘ Loyalist ’ when speaking of or reporting on the Protestant terrorists in Northern Ireland . |
| 9 | He stopped , coughing harshly , but as he sipped at the medicine Master Beaton held to his lips he was still grinning . |
| 10 | I do n't know what sort of a pistol he held to their heads , but I personally was quite happy and had never been looked after so well in my life . |
| 11 | This the court now held to be a valid return , although a general one , and , since it did not disclose on its face any irregularity or wrongful cause , it precluded the intervention of the courts . |
| 12 | Because they saw no way out of the situation for themselves , they held to the belief that if their children had better opportunities , particularly education , it would enable their children to have far better working lives . |
| 13 | At that time the TBC held to its policy of standing ‘ above ’ politics , holding the view that the TBC , |
| 14 | With Llanelli held to a draw , Neath took the opportunity to leapfrog into third place with a 27–15 home win over South Wales Police . |
| 15 | Mathematics was my subject , I was simply transferring what talents I had in that direction from one held to another . ’ |
| 16 | What left his stamp on the stewardship of our movement was that he held to these passions so tenaciously and yet drew on inner reserves that illumined them with an unshakeable commitment to excellence and that rarest of all qualities personal integrity . |
| 17 | Outside the family , being Welsh was the greatest blessing he had and he held to it . |
| 18 | These were widely ( though never universally ) held to be demonstrable by appeal either to direct awareness or intuition , or , more often , by indirect argument starting off from ordinary human experience of ourselves and the world around us . |
| 19 | Feuerbach 's position was more consistent : he was a philosopher who did not believe in God but was on his own admission passionately concerned with religion and theology , whose real object he held to be man himself . |
| 20 | It is this concept which ISS held to be fundamental to increasing the commitment and achievement of pupils who now underachieve , especially many working-class pupils . |
| 21 | The fact that the form is exhausted , however , has not prevented those novelists held to be of a satirical bent from making squillions of pounds : Tom Sharpe , Clive James and Keith Waterhouse ( above ) all shift paperbacks like nobody 's business , and good luck to them . |
| 22 | On the other hand , from the point of view of sociological knowledge , even the most certain adequacy on the level of meaning signifies an acceptable causal proposition only to the extent that evidence can be produced that there is a probability … that the action in question really takes the course held to be meaningfully adequate . |
| 23 | Whether ‘ the action in question really takes the course held to be meaningfully adequate ’ depends on assigning a high probability , which in turn depends on appealing to a well-established generalization . |
| 24 | As we sat there at the wedding-feast I held to the pedestrian belief that the rustling jetsam at my feet was merely the accumulation of champagne foil . |
| 25 | For example , the ( now held to be correct ) notion that prolonged lactation was likely to delay impregnation had a long resonance . |
| 26 | She was holding a net curtain to one side with the gold-ringed fingers of one hand , while in the other hand she held to her mouth a long white ebony cigarette holder on which she drew constantly as she watched the visitor enter her neighbour 's house . |
| 27 | Experience , it is believed , leads to sound judgment , held to be a significant virtue in a field officer , for it is the field man who is the agency 's gatekeeper . |
| 28 | In sum the archaeological evidence confirms in rather a striking manner the impression conveyed by writers who held to the view that ivory connoted luxury and in itself constituted a treasure in much the same sense as gold , silver and precious stones . |
| 29 | The most versatile stone in his long catalogue was sapphire , which he held to be good for protecting the limbs from injury and the wearer from fraud , as well as for overcoming envy , averting terror , liberating from imprisonment , purifying the eyes , cooling the body and not least for the convenient property of making the wearer beloved of god as well as of men . |
| 30 | Ltd. v. The Irish Land Commission ( Case 182/83 ) [ 1984 ] E.C.R. 3677 , in which the court held to be compatible with article 52 a requirement to reside in Irish territory which was imposed on nationals of other member states , is not relevant . |