Example sentences of "[adj] to hold [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was impossible to hold back the enthusiasm of the church in its infancy . |
| 2 | In the United States , Health Management Organisations were introduced in the early 1970s to hold down the formidable costs of American medicine by encouraging more competition between providers . |
| 3 | The Abbey National 's deputy chairman , John Bayliss , said the decrease in mortgage interest relief is unlikely to hold back the recovery in the housing market . |
| 4 | On agreed and worked-out policies , one country in the ministerial Council should not be able to hold up the progress of the European Community as a whole . |
| 5 | Civil war was averted , but while the 120-strong squadron of cavalry were able to hold back the rioters in Aÿ , they were unwilling to engage their fellow citizens in open conflict and failed to prevent the mob from sacking and burning the premises of Ayala , Bissinger and Deutz & Geldermann in Aÿ . |
| 6 | Only with difficulty was she able to hold back the tears , forcing herself to smile . |
| 7 | I took over in August 1968 , far from sure that I 'd be able to hold down the key anchor-man role . |
| 8 | But within a few days , all her mother 's youth and vigour were gone and the energetic , independent woman whose health and dependability she had taken for granted for so long had turned into a helpless invalid , unable to hold down the thinnest gruel , unable to sleep more than a few minutes at a time , unable even to answer the calls of nature on her own , so that she had to be lifted like a child onto the pot and lifted back into the jumble of stinking bedclothes . |
| 9 | Then , unable to hold back the words , she added , ‘ I 've been given to understand that you and Silas are both somewhat allergic to — er — to the feminine side of life — and that you 've both decided to live without such small luxuries . ’ |
| 10 | Having no foothold on power , they could offer no inducements to moderate reformism ; they were unable to hold out the prospect of even limited concessions to peasants and workers . |
| 11 | Even in the earlier period , however , it was difficult to hold back the commercial urges of line managers , though some marketing effort was initially canalised into the job of discouraging the sale of electric fires or persuading people to go carefully in the use of electricity at peak times . |