Example sentences of "[conj] hold the [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the third week , if a pupil from one school felt that a pupil from the other school was taking up too much space , or holding the microphone at the wrong angle , or not performing a task quickly enough , they would be told . |
| 2 | The latter is further symbolized in the awakening lion and the eagle that holds the emblem of the city in its feet . |
| 3 | But ‘ there is no one method , medium , approach , device , or philosophy that holds the key to the process of learning to read … |
| 4 | The famous Bullock report of 1975 , A language for life , after an investigation of teaching in schools , came to the conclusion that ‘ there is no one method , medium , approach , device , or philosophy that holds the key to the process of learning to read ’ ( DES , 1975 , p.77 ) . |
| 5 | Any use of force , according to this view , had to do more than hold the lines on the battlefield ; it had also to allow the Bosnian government the chance to fight and retake territory it had lost . |
| 6 | We can expect it as a standard feature from the database , once we 've built the systems that hold the costs for the the estimated costs for value of the work . |
| 7 | like , so you 've got a solenoid that holding the top on the pivot and the bit at the bottom just like a |
| 8 | Records are made to be broken and Tom Walker , although holding the record for the longest serving employee within the group , may well qualify for an industry wide record if it were possible . |
| 9 | The board that held the keys in the porter 's charge hung just within the doorway , and she had sharp enough eyes to pick out the nail that was empty , and the fellow to the absent key close beside it . |
| 10 | By this time it was only the bullards and the newly created orders of masons that held the knowledge of the bull . |
| 11 | It was the prevalence of this illusion that held the key to the overwhelming popularity of the League and of collective security in Britain in the mid-1930s . |
| 12 | The day before we were going to fly we were putting the airplane together — it was a Sunday — and we found out that we had forgotten to make the flanges that held the tailpipe to the airplane . |
| 13 | ‘ Bastards ! ’ he said loudly , and repeated the oath as he reached up to untie the string that held the body of the puppy . |
| 14 | ( He snatches a dagger from the PLAYER 's belt and holds the point at the PLAYER 's throat : the PLAYER backs and GUIL advances , speaking more quietly . ) |
| 15 | The Asdex tokamak at Garching in West Germany has what is known as a ‘ poloidal divertor ’ and holds the record for the duration of a plasma in a tokamak — Asdex has sustained its plasma for 10 seconds . |
| 16 | When you feel the quality of the leather , and hold the heft of the book . |
| 17 | Ideally we should launch it at the 40th Anniversary Celebrations and hold the Draw at the Annual Reunion in November . |
| 18 | Place the cone or ball on the floor beside you and hold the yarn above the carriage , in the position it would be in if it were threaded through the yarn mast . |
| 19 | Much the same result could be achieved by creating a trust for sale of the land ; that is to say , by conveying the land to trustees upon trust to sell , and to hold the income of the land until sale , and the proceeds of sale , upon trust for beneficiaries in any desired order . |
| 20 | The dun 's handler plucked a tail feather and held the down at the quill-end against a neck wound to staunch the blood . |
| 21 | She adjusted the loose threads in one hand and held the distaff in the other . |
| 22 | After Lyle Shelton pulled out Destefani backed off the power and held the lead for the next three laps to take the chequered flag at an average speed of 450.835mph . |
| 23 | Freddie knew little about children and held the belief of the uninitiated that every mother doted on her offspring . |
| 24 | You could make complicated calculations , but an alternative is to set the blade for cutting the segments flat , but to hold the plank at the desired angle as you cut . |
| 25 | A TRIED and true method of removing a spider from a bath is to trap the creature inside a glass and then slide a postcard over the open end while holding the glass against the side of the bath . |