Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] to hold the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just when we expected to see Cordoba produce an extra gear as Walter Swinburn got to work with the whip , the son of El Gran Senor capitulated and it was Balla Cove who produced extra reserves to hold the late thrust of Rock City . |
| 2 | ‘ I advise our dear people and all Muslim nations to hold the international Qods Day ceremonies this year more warmly and enthusiastically than in previous years , ’ he said in the broadcast monitored in Nicosia . |
| 3 | They could let down extra wires to hold the branch and winch it up when it was cut free . |
| 4 | At the point of full divergence , Britain could call on other EMS central banks to hold the pound within its agreed trading limits . |
| 5 | Michael 's brought the foreigners with him , and left the three Ruritanians to hold the King prisoner . |
| 6 | Body and neck are held together by four screws through a neckplate , and I 'd suggest it might be worth Vox looking at using one of these screws to hold the strap button , which at the moment is screwed to the body about half way along the top of the plate . |
| 7 | For some centuries Wales had been an area where rather independent lords raised private armies to hold the Welsh down , and sometimes turned these armies against the king . |
| 8 | As in the services , it is assumed that the ‘ man ’ will trust his senior managers because , in the final analysis , they have to be trusted as they are the only ones to hold the total picture of the situation of the company . |
| 9 | At the end of September , 35 English dealers and 15 from the Continent joined 35 American dealers to hold the first International Antique Dealers ' Show at the Seventh Regiment Armory on Park Avenue , in the heart of Manhattan . |
| 10 | Pulling it open would be too great a risk and Turner could not trust his own hands to hold the bag steady . |
| 11 | Nail battens across two corners to hold the frame true |
| 12 | Mr Delors said that in the short run MEPs should be given greater powers to hold the EC executive responsible when national governments transferred powers to Brussels — under a new European treaty for economic and monetary union . |
| 13 | It usually took two men to hold the tyre and if the smith thought the fit was satisfactory — at this time it was half-an-inch larger than the wheel — the boy helping was ordered to throw buckets of cold water over the still very hot steel which would immediately contract and tightly hold the rim . |
| 14 | Already her sailing ability had reached a level where she was able to make the minor corrections to hold the boat on course without even thinking . |
| 15 | The hardware to perform multiplication requires two n-bit registers to hold the multiplier and multiplicand , and a 2n-bit register to hold the product , since it may have up to ( 2n-1 ) significant bits . |