Example sentences of "the [noun] [be] hold " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cable & Wireless holds around three-quarters of the shares , the Hong Kong Government another 7 per cent and the remainder are held by outside shareholders . |
| 2 | The bulk of the remainder are held by companies who show a strong preference for holding the stock of companies with whom they have important trading connections . |
| 3 | With consumption in Great Britain averaging 114kg ( 250lb ) per head per annum , incidentally the highest consumption figure in Europe , most of the crop is consumed in this country ; some potatoes are exported whilst the remainder are held back for use as a seed to produce the following year 's crop . |
| 4 | Of the eleven general Forest inquests held during the period 1297–1305 in the forests of Rockingham , King 's Cliffe , Whittlewood and Salcey , Despenser presided at only one ; the remainder were held before Robert of Harrowden , his deputy . |
| 5 | It was unthinkable that a Bonaparte , the heir to the throne , should not receive a baptism of fire and the Prince was held to be old enough to face up to this . |
| 6 | The offices of ‘ Chief Justice and justice in Eyre of His Majesty 's Forests , Chases and Warrens ’ north and south of the Trent were held by noblemen such as the Dukes of Monmouth , Newcastle and Devonshire . |
| 7 | In the main they all appreciated what was being done and it was obvious that the Board was held in high regard by this section of the industry . |
| 8 | v. Kennedy [ 1989 ] 1 F.L.R. 356 the creditor was held disentitled to enforce the security . |
| 9 | There was some doubt as to whether the cleaner was an independent contractor , but the occupiers were held liable as they had failed to take reasonable steps to check that the work had been reasonably done : " The craft of the charwoman may have its mysteries but there is no esoteric quality in the nature of the work which the cleaning of a snow covered step demands . " |
| 10 | The entries in the lexicon do not actually contain semantic information , but have instead pointers to locations in a separate store known as semantic memory in which the meanings are held . |
| 11 | The inauguration was held amid a massive security operation in the capital , Bogotá . |
| 12 | The sentence was held by the High Court of Justiciary to be competent : Graham v. Robert Younger Ltd. , 1955 J.C . |
| 13 | Crocker had to fly back to the USA the following day , so there was limited time to convert John Allison with the airshow being held the following day . |
| 14 | The power of the elite is held to derive from the greater intensity and quality of the sentiments or residues of its members which give its members the will and the ability to maintain their own rule either by force or by consent ( but not usually both , according to Pareto ) . |
| 15 | If you pay through a travel agent , they 'll hold money on your behalf until a contract is created ( see above ) , after that the money is held by the travel agent on our behalf . |
| 16 | The minimum investment through the service is £5,000 and until invested , the money is held in the company 's Corporation Loan Account which is currently paying interest of 5.25 per cent gross . |
| 17 | In the first place this tax was not , in my view , paid pursuant to a contract that if the money was held not to have been payable it would then fall due to be repaid , thus excluding any right to interest before Nolan J. 's decision . |
| 18 | As the case was held over there was just time for Dorothy Hardisty to intervene . |
| 19 | This case merited only a six-inch column in one newspaper , but probably failed to get widespread coverage on several grounds : the case was held outside London ( in Manchester ) and the case was not contested . |
| 20 | A short preliminary hearing of the case was held last Monday . |
| 21 | What medium will the text be held on after capture : |
| 22 | Thirdly , the respect in which the courts are held gives their decisions an influence out of proportion to the number of cases they deal with . |
| 23 | Anybody who can read the Latin is held by the poem : its hold , however , is in the language , the typical Horation speed — for want of a better word — the eloquent economy of phrase , the loading of the text with allusions and with metaphors overt and covert . |
| 24 | Er and of course they had to use these crocodiles er down the coast er where the Germans were holding out er at and Dunkirk you see . |
| 25 | In Georgia , where the referendum was held at the same time as elections for local councils , voters were asked : " Do you agree that the state independence of Georgia should be restored on the basis of the independence act of May 26 , 1918 ? " |
| 26 | The license is held by the local vicar , and part of the pub 's profits will go towards his church 's restoration fund . |
| 27 | The LTTE was held responsible for a car bomb in the capital , Colombo , which killed 11 people , a bus bomb in Ampara which killed 25 , and ambushes near Trincomalee and Batticaloa where 20 people were killed . |
| 28 | v. Grant , or some other authority to the same effect , and saying that by our law an offeror can be landed with a contract even though he never receives an acceptance , since the contract is held to be complete on the posting of the letter of acceptance . |
| 29 | Then erm one could go on , because the building industry , for instance , civil engineering , road construction , actual buildings being constructed , they 're all very weather-prone , for quite a large extent of the contract , and so we provide erm weather advice to these people throughout the contract period usually , and not only throughout the contract period , but if the contract is held up because of weather then the , we get extension of contract comes into this , we can advise both sides on whether the claim is justified or not , because we have the statistics of how much rain fell , how cold it was , or perhaps it might have been a windy spell . |
| 30 | The hairs can be applied very closely to a smooth surface and adhesion occurs , the insect being held by surface molecular forces ( Arnhart , 1923 ; Gillett and Wigglesworth , 1932 ) . |