Example sentences of "[noun] hold [adv] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This connection between high status employment work and present dissatisfaction with housework holds only for the middle-class women , but there is evidence that the tendency to be dissatisfied with housework in relation to the status of one 's previous job may involve the question of a ‘ reference group ’ . |
| 2 | He either could go for the vital boundary himself , or back his and his partner 's ability to hold fast for the remaining three overs and also gather the runs as insurance . |
| 3 | Abingdon held on for a deserved victory however , in one of the best games this reporter has seen this season . |
| 4 | We had the G A T talks held up for a lengthy period simply because the French wanted even more cash for agriculture and of course they got it and it 's rather silly when we 're spending two hundred and fifty million pounds a week on dumping and destroying food . |
| 5 | What is important to highlight at this juncture is the attraction that such a possibility held out for the intellectual workers of the time . |
| 6 | After the interval , chances were few and far between and most of the early play took place in mid-field , but towards the end Hucklecote applied severe pressure , but the visitor 's defence superbly mastered by outside half , Neil Smith held out for a fine hard-earned victory . |