Example sentences of "[adv] held [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As it was , de Lattre constantly held out the prospect of Chinese intervention , apparently believing it himself and certainly capitalizing on it in the US . |
| 2 | By the early 1830s the very ‘ glut ’ of petitions so held up the normal business of the day that , although an exceptional petition like that of the ladies could make an impression , the House of Commons acted to refer petitions to a committee and deny immediate speech on them on the floor of the House . |
| 3 | As we saw earlier , the period which marks the emergence of Consumers ' Co-operation as virtually the sole objective of the Movement , and its rejection of authentic Producers ' Co-operation , coincides with Hobsbawm 's Age of Capital , that period which marked the phenomenal growth of a global economy of industrial capitalism and so held out the prospect of unlimited and unfailing progress — and nowhere more than in Britain which held a de facto international monopoly in trade in manufactures . |
| 4 | One of the men , however , easily held down the exciseman while the others made off with the booty . |
| 5 | Other practices that once held up the flow of the dance were the continual closing in 5th position before a new step and the continual moving of the arms through 1st position at every change of weight or during a ports de bras . |
| 6 | It has sometimes held out the promise of release from grinding poverty ; or , for the moderately well-off , the prospect of a fairly agreeable way of life . |
| 7 | Some writers on cyclical theories explicitly held out the hope that , although the world was in decline , the wheel would turn again so that eventually another Golden Age would repeat the idyllic conditions of the remote past . |