Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] hold out [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This work holds out the promise of a much wider project : |
| 2 | Hence Japanese management holds out a promise of permanent employment to a core of selected employees whose numbers are ‘ limited to a cyclically justifiable minimum ’ ( Taira 1962 p.l68 ) . |
| 3 | For M Delors , a Labour government held out the hope of support for some of his budget proposals , which are set to cost the British taxpayer an extra £1 billion per year . |
| 4 | Children in rags ran along beside them ; festoons of washing hung from windows ; piles of garbage buzzed with flies , and at every other doorway some blind or leprous beggar held out a hand for alms . |
| 5 | For Raymond , whose county had been held as a fief of Aquitaine since 1173 , the replacement of Richard by his elder brother held out the prospect of release from a galling sense of subordination . |
| 6 | She turned to see a very large handsome man holding out a cardigan and grinning like a Cheshire cat . |