Example sentences of "it [be] hold [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The wider the areas covered by the theory , the less certain is the theory 's explanation likely to be and the more tentatively will it be held by the scientific community . |
| 2 | The conference and the exhibition that went with it were held in Geneva in 1958 . |
| 3 | I 'll get Annunziata to keep something hot in the kitchen and then if you 'd rather not be bothered with us tonight , you can have it there — or in bed , if that would be better , ’ said Julia , her heart feeling as though it were held in a tightening vice as she saw his misery . |
| 4 | Demonstrations against it were held in Prague in late September . |
| 5 | It plays world and indie music , it has face-painters and babies , and , if you 're interested , it 's held in the Town Hall in Shoreditch on Saturday nights . |
| 6 | It 's held by a 1963 Volkswagen Beetle from Pasadena , California , which has covered an incredible 1,402,515 miles . |
| 7 | If I move as privately as possible , it is to hold off the fools and rogues until the thing has a chance of success . |
| 8 | It is held at two famous courses on the Kent coast in the early spring , when the cold is invariably at its most insidious and the winds at their fiercest . |
| 9 | Ahusquy is , in its minuscule way , a spa , because on the hillside above it , a healthy kilometre 's walk from the road and the small hotel , is a source you can drink from — it is held to be good for kidney and bladder sufferers . |
| 10 | Now when there is excess flood water it is held between them and let out slowly later . |
| 11 | So if there is no son , as during George VI 's reign , it is held by the monarch . |
| 12 | It is held by Moslems to contain all the essentials of their belief , and to be a collection of passages of direct revelation uttered by Mohammed ( although not all written down during his lifetime ) . |
| 13 | A Microsoft Corp staffer is reported to have told Sun Microsystems Inc that Microsoft would make Windows such a moving target that Sun , with its WABI Windows Application Binary Interface , could not keep up ( CI No 2,147 ) : if the tale is true and Microsoft means it , it means that the company has learned a little too well from its long cohabitation with IBM , and that the seeds of its own destruction are now being sown — for years , IBM added features and tweaked its mainframes with no thought of improving them from the user 's point of view , but simply to trip up competitors , and once a dominant company starts resorting to such tactics , it fatally injures the regard with which it is held by the outside world , and is embarking on the slippery slope that leads to the debacle IBM finds itself in today . |
| 14 | It is held by others , however , that a large part of the relative decline was the inevitable sequel of having been a pioneer in industrialization . |
| 15 | It is held in a double-skinned tank which is filled with hot water to raise the temperature of the milk . |
| 16 | Within living cells , it is held in a three-dimensional network of proteins to form the sponge-like cytoplasm , and this in turn is enclosed in a flexible protein-fat membrane . |
| 17 | This smith-god wears the leather apron and holds a pair of long-handled tongs , from which a small billet has fallen ; , and it is held in his left hand , presumably the right held a hammer . |
| 18 | The conservative outlook entails a particular conception of God ( and of Christ ) , an understanding of which it can not simply be said that it is held in common by all Christians : something I think often not recognized by conservatives themselves . |
| 19 | As the droplet leaves the jet it is held in position by an electric field which further propels it towards the paper . |
| 20 | He is available for the first working party meeting on Monday 18th January , and I suggest it is held in Aberystwyth at 2pm . |
| 21 | ‘ It is a unique paper , ’ he says , ‘ and it is held in such affection because , no matter where Ulster people are , it is the one which keeps them in touch with ALL the local sport , whether its football and rugby or darts and pigeon racing . ’ |
| 22 | Generally , once a settlor has put property into a settlement he will have alienated the income therefrom for income tax purposes for the period that it is held in trust . |
| 23 | The PAC also expressed its discontent at the name of CODESA — it had proposed " conference for a constituent assembly " — and the venue — it had urged that it be held at a " neutral " venue , outside South Africa . |
| 24 | Your Committee have given further consideration to the date of the Annual General Meeting of the Society and now recommend that it be held on 4 May 1990 at 7.30 pm at the Community College , Bishop 's Castle . |
| 25 | PW also had to hand back $500,000 of the client 's money , which it was holding as a contingency against liability . |
| 26 | The Thatcher administration was still new to the power it was to hold for the rest of the decade and a reader might reasonably expect to find something seminal in the report . |
| 27 | The Lancashire cotton industry grew so spectacularly after 1770 that by 1803 cotton had replaced wool as Britain 's leading export , a pre-eminent position that it was to hold until 1938 . |
| 28 | The first race was from Paris to Lyons in 1900 and it remained an open road race until 1903 when it was held over the Athy circuit in Ireland . |
| 29 | I did the same with another strip around the right ankle and over the foot , so that it was held between the sole of the foot and the wooden backing of the old door . |
| 30 | The fair was known as Barnaby Fair as it was held on the old Feast of St Barnabas on the 22nd June ; more recently it has been held on the Tuesday nearest this date . |