Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] [adv] to hold " in BNC.
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| 1 | The question we are entitled to ask is : are new values strong enough to hold the old institutions together ? |
| 2 | Mix the wine , sugar , and spices in a saucepan large enough to hold the pears upright . |
| 3 | If buckets large enough to hold several records are used , we can expect that these buckets will be more evenly filled than individual records fill single addresses ; this can be examined using the Poisson distribution . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Communion in both kinds also rendered the existing small chalices inadequate , and many were melted down to make new cups large enough to hold sufficient wine for all the lay communicants . |
| 6 | The Crimean Supreme Soviet had voted on July 9 not to hold the referendum on independence planned for Aug. 2 . |
| 7 | Roman had clearly primed his housekeeper well in advance , Caroline reflected , finding herself whisked off through grandiose high-ceilinged passageways , up a curving staircase wide enough to accommodate a coach and four , and into a room large enough to hold a full-scale ball . |
| 8 | It must be marvellous to be an instrumentalist or a singer good enough to hold an audience in your spell , like Maria Callas or Yehudi Menuhin. but I would have had to be at the top , not just scraping along . |
| 9 | By April 1988 , on the second anniversary of the Chernobyl eruption , fear had made the previously obedient people of Kiev brave enough to hold their first post-glasnost street demonstration . |
| 10 | If the pot-au-feu is for a special occasion you include as well a boiling chicken , but since so many kitchens are n't equipped with a soup pot large enough to hold a chicken at the same time as all the meat , this may have to be cooked separately . |
| 11 | The rack consists of a number of pigeon holes large enough to hold mail of normal size , with a key hook above . |
| 12 | But let us suppose that there are theories robust enough to hold the tension . |
| 13 | Because Jo 's father was English and Lorna Lewis gave many interviews explaining that the secret of keeping a marriage together in Hollywood was to make sure your husband was the king of his own home , they had chosen a house built in English baronial style , with walls mantled with ivy , black exposed timbers , fireplaces big enough to hold a conference in and small diamond-paned windows through which the sun streamed defiantly in brilliant narrow shafts . |
| 14 | Further enhancements could include a case big enough to hold various components of the system like the power supply unit and Microdrive interface or other add-ons . |
| 15 | If the fish is whole , and the fishmonger has done the decent thing — removed the guts and gills , which would taint it during cooking — all you need do is immerse the beast in any container large enough to hold it ( ideally a fish kettle ) , cover it with cold water and bring it gently to the boil . |