Example sentences of "[conj] [modal v] [be] hold [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Mr Stan Hardy , the league 's new director-general , said yesterday that anybody could ask for material that may be held on them .
2 All adults enjoy the right to vote in free general elections that must be held at least every 5 years .
3 Initially , we were a little uncertain as to the type of adverts to seek and in both your absences I checked with Gerry Senior who was very helpful in advising that we would be looking for the kind of events that might be held in the Centre and not adverts relating to , for example , recruitment .
4 The initial examination of the requirement was based on the categories derived in the earlier analysis , which produced some tentative conclusions about the type of records that could be held on a computer , and the potential advantages that could be gained .
5 The computer could be used to rescale the image pixel values so that the lowest value in the image ( 25 ) was interpolated onto the lowest value that the display system could accommodate ( 0 ) while the highest value in the raw image ( 90 ) was mapped to the maximum value that could be held at a pixel point in the image memory bank ( 255 ) .
6 I want you , but I have no intention of giving you a plain gold ring or any other ring that could be held against me as a pledge .
7 Table 7.3 shows the percentage of all additions that will be held in independent overflow for various combinations of embedded overflow area size and number of additions .
8 Both find that life , and of course the activity of philosophy , is untenable without some standards of absolute truth , the canon of ‘ reason ’ , which can generate knowledge that can be held to be true regardless of perspective or context .
9 The kinds of conversations that can be held with colleagues may become restricted to those that are safely superficial and impersonal , and the developing staffroom ambience may bind such social conventions ever more tightly .
10 the number of paid public appointments that can be held by a single individual should be limited ;
11 Must be put on using a anew one each time before the penis touches any part of the woman 's vaginal area , and must be held in place when the penis is withdrawn .
12 The robe could be in various colours — blue , orange , white — and might be held at the waist by a belt or cord .
13 In this case , goods were sold subject to a retention of title clause ( condition 8:1 of the contract ) which provided : Title of each item of goods sold or agreed to be sold shall remain vested in the Company [ ie the sellers ] until the full purchase price and all additional charges relating to that item and all and any other monies for the time being owing by the customer [ ie the buyers ] to the Company shall have been paid in full to the customer ( and all products into which such items held by the customer ) ( and all products into which such items come to be converted or incorporated ) shall be and remain the property of the Company and shall be held by the customer as trustee for the Company but with liberty for the customer to pass title as the Company 's agent on its own account ( but subject to 8.2 below ) bona fide for full value in the normal course of the customer 's trading .
14 The course is offered in five residential weekends , over a period of five months , and will be held at the Stirling Management Centre .
15 The coffee morning is to be a regular feature and will be held at Harewood House every second Saturday in the month .
16 John Witt 's workshop , ‘ Having Fun ’ , costs £80 and will be held on July 4–5 1992 at Spectrum , 7 Endymion Road , London N4 1EE .
17 The event with cash prizes is being sponsored by Newholme Construction Ltd and will be held on Sunday , April 5 .
18 A series of lectures organized by the National Arts Collections Fund focusing on creating and preserving collections and will be held during the fair ; it marks the first time that the NACF has initiated a project at a trade fair .
19 This lecture , organised by the Society of Cosmetic Scientists , is subtitled Vegetable or animal and will be held in Derby on 26 March 1992 .
20 This conference and exhibition will focus on New technology and applications from X-ray to mm waves and will be held in London on 8–12 June 1992 .
21 The successful and popular London Original Print Fair runs from 25 to 28 February and will be held in the left-hand principal rooms of the Royal Academy .
22 Each Clipper Chip will have two separate keys , both of which are needed to crack the transmissions , and will be held in separate ‘ escrow databases ’ , by different agencies — but the question is , who exactly will these agencies be ?
23 The third Russian Unix conference is being arranged by the Soviet Unix Users Group and will be held in St Petersburg between September 22 and 24 : representatives of the European association of Unix users , EurOpen , and the US organisations Usenix and UniForum were all invited to take part in the proceedings .
24 The next series will run concurrently with the first set , and will be held in Tees-side .
25 All of these meetings commence at 7.30 p.m. and will be held in the Fletcher Room at the Community College on the first Friday of the month , unless anounced otherwise .
26 All of these meetings commence at 7.30 p.m. and will be held in the Fletcher Room at the Community College on the first Friday of the month , unless announced otherwise .
27 All of these meetings commence at 7.30 p.m. and will be held in the Fletcher Room at the Community College on the first Friday of the month , unless announced otherwise .
28 If each component part is uniquely defined then the relationship is simple and can be held in a hierarchical data base .
29 The PoqetPad weighs 1lb 2oz and can be held in one hand .
30 In Britain elections to the House of Commons , from which the government is formed , must be held at least every five years ( until Parliament says otherwise ) but may be held at any time during the five years , for example there were only eight months between elections in 1974 and the average length of a parliament is around four years .
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