Example sentences of "[verb] hold the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Likud Prime Minister , Mr Yitzhak Shamir , proposed holding the elections last May , but he is resolutely opposed to any role for Mr Yasser Arafat 's Palestine Liberation Organisation , which he insists is still committed to terrorism . |
| 2 | Balance on your bottom , knees together , feet off the ground , arms bent holding the ‘ oars ’ . |
| 3 | Erm the old on that you know , took me two years to get the bearings approved and er you know but then having to wait a year and a half cos had a year and a half 's worth of orders on 'em and promised to hold the price for three years is that 's what it took for them to use them up , er has run out , new orders have been put on but I 've got the chance of taking the business . |
| 4 | ‘ The man who beats the victim has to hold the Koran under his arm , ’ a senior official said . |
| 5 | With so many people leaving the land , something has to hold the village together . |
| 6 | On the other hand it has to hold the interest of a class for at least one viewing . |
| 7 | Actually , they both have about one per cent of other things in there designed to hold the alloy together … |
| 8 | For Le Preziose , Buitoni have created four new shapes , which do more than just look beautiful on the plate , they are specially designed to hold the delicious and subtle sauces that you 'll find in our recipes . |
| 9 | The new conservative prime minister of France , Edouard Balladur , announced tax increases designed to hold the budget deficit this year to 4.5% of GDP . |
| 10 | For the moment , however , we should recognise that the concern to strengthen intra-party democracy through constitutional reforms designed to hold the Parliamentary Labour Party accountable to the rank and file may do little to ensure that any future Labour Government delivers of its manifesto ( and possibly socialist ) promises since these reforms do not come to terms with power , the state , and the market . |
| 11 | Immediately Alec 's eyes filled with sweat again and he strained to hold the delicate balance of the bucket of fire as it moved lower and closer to the shape carved out of the ground . |
| 12 | She tried to hold the pen , but it zig-zagged all over the paper like that Planchette thing her father had used long ago . |
| 13 | John tried to hold the family together but it knocked everyone back . ’ |
| 14 | Next is the fact that the more dots you have the longer it 's going to take to process them and the more memory you 'll need to hold the bitmap . |
| 15 | You do n't need to hold the |
| 16 | ‘ The artists resolved to hold the Sarajevan Festival of the Arts , which was first held in 1984 at the Winter Olympics , as a gesture towards civilised life and civic identity . |
| 17 | I stopped to hold the door open for her . |
| 18 | ‘ It would be great , particularly as Milan is bidding to hold the next Olympic Games after Atlanta , ’ he suggests . |
| 19 | Michele 's fingers moved to hold the warmth of her nape and his mouth covered hers . |
| 20 | In the last week before convertibility was suspended in 1971 , $2 billion was borrowed by the United States from other central banks to try to hold the line . |
| 21 | Mr Lee , 66 , leader of the ruling People 's Action Party , has held the office since 1959 when Singapore became a self-governing state . |
| 22 | Derek Foster , who has held the Commons chief whip post for four years , is being challenged by Ron Davies , the MP for Caerphilly . |
| 23 | But I find it totally incomprehensible that someone who has held the office of Chancellor with high standing for over six years should want to resign over a personality with such suddenness and haste . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ But I find it totally incomprehensible if someone has held the office of Chancellor with high standing for six years to want to resign over a personality — with such suddenness and haste . ’ |
| 25 | And it is certainly true that , on previous form , the centre party has failed to extract any long-term benefit from recent occasions when it has held the balance of power . |
| 26 | They all believe the Tory victory will provide the missing confidence that has held the housing market back for the past 12 months . |
| 27 | Since then he has held the Transport , Employment , Northern Ireland and Defence portfolios . |
| 28 | JOHN Ockenden , chairman of Data Logic , has been appointed chairman of the National Computing Centre , succeeding Dr John Ashworth of the London School of Economics who has held the post since June 1983 . |
| 29 | If there has been an oppressor that has held the human spirit in chains , then it is fear itself . |
| 30 | When the thyristor triggers into conduction it presents a virtual short-circuit across Zener diode D4 ( which has held the base voltage of the pnp transistor TR3 at a cutoff level of 3.3V ) and so pulls the base down sufficiently to switch TR3 on . |