Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] hold " in BNC.
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| 1 | The porter holds the car door as if restraining a very strong , young Galapagos tortoise from doing what it pleases . |
| 2 | sends her sincere thanks to for giving them the opportunity to hold the ball . |
| 3 | While prominent Wesleyans like Hughes , J. Scott Lidgett , R. W. Perks , Charles Kelly and Henry Lunn were active and , in Hughes ' case , vital to the movement , the majority held aloof and Conference refused to take any notice of the Council . |
| 4 | The majority held that the case could be decided upon the narrow ground that the action for enticement should be extended beyond the strict relation of master and servant to embrace other contracts for personal services , but support was also given in varying degrees to a broader proposition that a plaintiff might sue for the knowing violation of the security of any type of contractual right . |
| 5 | Sweenie , the majority held that there must be some force to constitute rape and that it was not rape , therefore , to have sexual intercourse with a sleeping woman . |
| 6 | The majority held that , whilst an honest but unreasonable mistake would negative liability , such a defence should be put to the jury only where the defendant expressly asserted belief in consent and where there was some evidence beyond his mere assertion . |
| 7 | In the Court of Appeal the majority held that , as a matter of construction , the clause did not apply . |
| 8 | These issues were considered by the House of Lords in Henry Kendall and Sons v William Lillico and Sons Ltd ( 1969 ) where the majority held that subsequent knowledge should be taken into account as otherwise , Lord Guest argued , it would be tantamount " to approach the true situation with blinkers " ( p108 ) . |
| 9 | Using equations ( 6.9 ) and ( 6. 10 ) the required Poisson values can be calculated very rapidly ; they are particularly suited to a pocket calculator , as the starting value can be calculated and then modified by multiplying the contents of the calculator by the packing density and dividing by the next value of ‘ x ’ : 1 when the calculator holds p(0) , 2 when it holds p(1) and so on . |
| 10 | Before moving the Steam Tank it is necessary to test to see if the boiler holds out . |
| 11 | In Nigeria the foreign investors ' share is now about 20 per cent , with the bulk of the remainder held in the Nigerian private sector ; the localization legislation created over one million individual shareholders . |
| 12 | Saga has about 1,500 shareholders , with institutions accounts for around half the shares not held by the family and the remainder held by private investors . |
| 13 | The additional times caused by linkage handling can be avoided if the link held on the prime data track contains the record key , and if the software can detect whether the required record is in overflow quickly enough to avoid missing the start of the next record . |
| 14 | Well Chemistry of course is , is traditionally much easier in many ways than English or some other subjects , and this reflects the esteem held amongst schoolteachers and students of the sciences as opposed to the arts . |
| 15 | The stretcher holding Damien 's inert body was just being lifted into it . |
| 16 | In Tait , where Lord Clyde considered that the clerk should not have rejected the late application , his Lordship ordered the board to hold a meeting to consider the application under s.31(2) . |
| 17 | The board holds the funds in escrow for five years , during which it releases amounts only for attorney 's fees , and in some cases , for expenses incurred in earning the literary income . |
| 18 | ( 6 ) A licensing board may only deal with any proceedings relating to matters mentioned in paragraphs ( a ) to ( i ) of subsection ( 2 above at a quarterly meeting of the board held by virtue of section 4.1 a of this Act . |
| 19 | On a further appeal to the Privy Council the Board held that , if jurisdiction existed at all , it must have been under a section of the relevant Bahamas legislation ( section 23 of the Court of Appeal Act ( Statute Law of the Bahama Islands , 1965 rev. , c. 34 ) ) which provided : |
| 20 | ( 3 ) A licensing board may consider any application made to it under paragraph ( b ) of subsection ( 2 ) above at any meeting of the board held not earlier than 14 days after the making of the application and shall affirm the provisional grant if the board is satisfied that the premises , if completed in accordance with the plan mentioned in that paragraph , will be and convenient for their purpose and that the said plan does not deviate materially from the site plan and description of the premises lodged under the said subsection ( 2 ) . |
| 21 | The Board held that , on the somewhat complex facts of the particular case , it mattered not whether the subsequent promise was regarded as the best evidence of the benefit intended to be conferred or as the positive bargain , the benefit on the faith of which the promise was given . |
| 22 | If the creditor holds any security , he must specify the nature and value of the security and the demand must be for the unsecured portion of the creditor 's claim only . |
| 23 | They knew that there was nothing more off-putting for a woman that a romantic encounter at the cinema holding hands with a large dollop of Castrol GTX . |
| 24 | Chafe ( 1976 : 51 ) suggests that the function of topic is to specify some kind of framework , for instance in terms of time , location , or individual reference , within which the main statement applies and that ‘ real ’ topics ( in topic-prominent languages ) are not so much ‘ what the sentence is about ’ as ‘ the frame within which the sentence holds ’ . |
| 25 | Richard 's mother appeared in the door-way holding out her arms . |
| 26 | What pleasures , he wondered , did the afternoon hold in store ? |
| 27 | Medicine is highly labour-intensive , and the NHS does not have the money to hold its own with the sheer weight of clinical traffic at present , let alone cope as the population gets older , the drug costs escalate and research brings exciting but expensive new treatments . |
| 28 | I always wondered where the money for dean came from , we should have held onto chapman , strenghten our back four , and would have had the money to hold onto Batty . |
| 29 | As long as the money held out for her , that was enough . |
| 30 | This principle has been applied , and the money held to be recoverable , in cases where the sanction has amounted to duress of the person of the subject or of his goods . |