Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] holds [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | British Gas holds to the opinion that it will need discoveries from both the Norwegian and UK sectors to meet future demand and that it will need to buy some 12,000 billion cubic feet of new supplies by the end of the century — some one-third of the amount British Gas projected it would sell . |
| 2 | Many common locutions are semantically well-formed only if an appropriate semantic relation holds between certain of their lexical constituents . |
| 3 | This high ranking holds for seizures of heroin , persons found guilty of drug offences , and new and former drug addicts notified to the Home Office ( Home Office 1986 ) . |
| 4 | Human beings were wrenched from their homeland and crammed into the airless stinking holds of vessels to provide , if they survived , the slave labour of the plantation economies of the West Indies and the southern states of North America . |
| 5 | This means that the following relationship holds between modified duration and bond prices . |
| 6 | A similar relationship holds between the prices of futures contracts with different delivery months : where P f 1 = current price of futures contract with delivery in year T 1 , P f 2 = current price of futures contract with delivery in year T 2 ( T 1 < T 2 ) . |
| 7 | A similar argument holds for any other commodity we try to tax . |
| 8 | There are Dwarf settlements within the mountains , but these are fewer in number and less wealthy than the mighty Dwarf Holds of the Worlds Edge Mountains . |
| 9 | This expression uses formula ( 11.1 ) and a similar expression holds for the up-problem . |
| 10 | A similar expression holds for |G| . |
| 11 | I remember my father giving me specific advice on just how he climbed the crux section of the corner crack above ; ‘ When you get to the steep bit — you 'll know it when you get there — just face right and use the square cut holds on the edge . |
| 12 | We naturally enquire whether or not the corresponding result holds in Q[x] . |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't think anyone knows what the immediate future holds at the moment . ’ |
| 14 | This true/false logic holds for the whole range of autonomizing fields , in the sense that aesthetic , scientific , normative , and legal statements can be understood as more or less valid . |
| 15 | The above explanation holds for all the verbs of perception . |
| 16 | Bomb-proof cargo holds in aircraft are another vital development in the fight against terrorism . |
| 17 | These studies were not " wrong " , but it would be wrong to conclude that this pattern of interest-group politics holds for all issues . |
| 18 | This enables those concerned to gain a firmer idea of what the new country holds in store for them and decide whether they are likely to be happy living there . |
| 19 | He shows that , where there is an interior solution for the amount of bequest or gift across generations , then the Ricardian result holds for small variations in debt . |