Example sentences of "[adv] hold the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those 15 hours of waiting on Tuesday made Palestinians inside and outside the occupied territories realise the extent to which Yasser Arafat alone holds the whole movement together . |
| 2 | He not only holds the far west living of Queen Thorne — which comprises the Hardyesque village roll-call of Over Compton , Nether Compton , Poyntington , Sandford Orcas and Trent — but farms his own glebe land ( Hereford steers and Texel Cross sheep ) . |
| 3 | Gently hold the disc in place on the surface of a grid by means of a strong eyelash mounted to the end of a thin wooden ( orange ) stick , and pick up the disc by bringing the grid up under the disc and out of the water . |
| 4 | The idea has been floated by Stanford University and the University of California , which together hold the patent on the Stanford procedure for gene-splicing developed by Herbert Boyer and Stanley Cohen . |
| 5 | They carry on dancing , but they 're only holding the attention of a small part of the audience . |
| 6 | However , whether the appointment was said to be express or by necessarily holding the debtor out with ostensible authority such an appointment must in practice be a very rare event . |
| 7 | He added : ‘ Those who are intent on pursuing violence are perhaps holding the majority sway now within the IRA army council . ’ |
| 8 | He added : ‘ Those who are intent on pursuing violence are perhaps holding the majority sway now within the IRA council . ’ |
| 9 | " But perhaps holding the views you do makes you feel no action should be taken against the enemies of France . " |
| 10 | endlessly holding the note — and the Garden of Remembrance lies |
| 11 | If the worst examples of A-road architecture are produced by a combination of developer , architect and local authority all holding the same materialistic values , the reverse is also true . |
| 12 | Celia came down holding the baby , who had gone blue and stopped breathing . |
| 13 | ( Always put a knowledgeable and reliable person at the tail , and remind them only to hold the tail down if that is necessary to move the glider easily . ) |
| 14 | The police , therefore , have little to gain in promoting any exploration of their modes of thought , for analysis can only hold the possibility that the whole intricate system , to paraphrase Lévi-Strauss ( 1967 ) , will be revealed ‘ as an immense disorder [ which ] is organised in the form of a grammar ’ . |
| 15 | Earlier in the same discussion Sockett ( 1980 ) argues that you can only hold the teacher accountable ‘ for what is within his control ’ . |
| 16 | Bronze tie-rods are built in to hold the core to a clay mould then applied round the wax . |
| 17 | Rex waded in to hold the struggling arms apart . |
| 18 | They probably had to rake her in to hold the fort . |
| 19 | The usury paid merely to hold the conguered ground became daily more prohibitive . |
| 20 | The first thing you learn up in Kisumu is that none of the churches are large enough to hold the large congregations attending Mass . |
| 21 | In the event their prestige was not enough to hold the seat . |
| 22 | The question we are entitled to ask is : are new values strong enough to hold the old institutions together ? |
| 23 | He put a supporting arm round Farquhar 's shoulders and grinned at the men rowing only hard enough to hold the ship steady . |
| 24 | The mind of a young child is not yet strong enough to hold the two conflicting emotions . |
| 25 | Take a new but washed tea towel or piece of muslin large enough to hold the cake and moisten with half of the remaining bourbon . |
| 26 | Mix the wine , sugar , and spices in a saucepan large enough to hold the pears upright . |
| 27 | Pockets on a rucksack need to be large enough to hold the things you want to put in them ! |
| 28 | On the other hand , strength at sea would help displace the Portuguese who had gained control of the Indian Ocean a century earlier , and this would please the Emperor ; accordingly the East India Company armed its ships heavily enough to hold the sea against the Portuguese and against the local pirates . |
| 29 | But let us suppose that there are theories robust enough to hold the tension . |
| 30 | Once again , the gaps between the central strip and the beading must be wide enough to hold the glass . |