Example sentences of "hold [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wild calm that holds so much . |
| 2 | ( b ) A single-address or one-address computer holds only one store address per instruction . |
| 3 | But in Alceste the batteur is close by the stage and holds only one implement , not positioned very high , grasped perhaps near to its end . |
| 4 | Your tank , despite its length , holds only 240 litres , which should be turned over once every hour . |
| 5 | Instead of facing the music at Wembley on September 9 , Taylor 's team will play for expenses only on a Spanish Second Division ground that holds only 25,000 spectators and has never before staged a full international match . |
| 6 | My garden pond holds approximately 500 gallons , and is serviced by a Pegasus-Flotec Bio-Filter ( suitable for a 1000 gallon pond ) fed by a pump with an output of 500 gallons per hour . |
| 7 | The database currently holds approximately 1,000 records . |
| 8 | It holds more true of some of us than of others , that in the struggle to make it new we are writing the same book all our lives ; and with Dostoevsky this truth is very true . |
| 9 | He is John Talbot , of accountants Arthur Andersen , who as administrator of the bankrupt Maxwell family empire holds nearly 55 per cent of the Mirror Group 's shares . |
| 10 | The ISE holds nearly 8 per cent of world domestic equity capitalisation however ( Table 11.8 ) . |
| 11 | Today , Britain has 70 per cent of the total number of mosses and liverworts in Europe and holds nearly one-third of its threatened lichens . |
| 12 | Coniston Partners , the New York investment group which holds nearly 12 per cent of UAL , has given the board until January 8 to come up with an alternative to the $6.75billion buyout which failed to take off in October . |
| 13 | David from and Tanya who holds both British and Australian passports , disappeared a week ago . |
| 14 | One person holds up each of the objects in turn and says ‘ This is a thing , a very pretty thing , what must the owner do to receive it ? ’ |
| 15 | He holds up each man 's hand . |
| 16 | Raider holds up sub-post office |
| 17 | And they told me about Azul , in Jersey , and before that I think it was before that they showed me the forensic photographs of all of them : Bissett skewered on the railings , grotesque and spread and limp ; the blood-smeared vibrator used on the retired judge , Jamieson ; the drained shapeless white body of Persimmon , tied to his grid above a pool of blood , then nothing when there should have been something ; then what was left of Sir Rufus Carter , blackened bones , distorted and bent , the black skull 's jaw hinged down in a blind scream but the flesh all gone very much a dental-records job and it was all black , the nails , the wood and the bones too but it 's their mouths their jaws I remember , their silent screams , hanging slack or jammed open and it gets worse because they show me the fucking video they show me the video they think I made or that I think they think I made but I did n't ; they make me watch it and it 's horrific ; there 's a man and he 's dressed in black or dark blue and he has a gorilla mask on and he keeps sucking on this little bottle he 's carrying which must be helium because it gives him that baby voice disguising his own voice and he has this fat little guy strapped to a chrome seat , his mouth taped , one arm tied down onto the arm of the chair , shirt rolled up and the little guy 's shrieking as hard as he can but it sounds quiet because the noise is having to come down his nose while the man in the gorilla mask looks from the camera to the guy in the seat and holds up this huge fucking syringe like something from a nightmare from an old movie from a horror film and I can feel my heart beating wildly because that 's what this is . |
| 18 | Right so if someone holds up this piece and you hold up this piece to your mum and you say what sort of fraction is this ? |
| 19 | Keith holds up both hands , fingers out to quiet them . |
| 20 | For elderly people , time speeds by , partly because their metabolic rate has slowed down but also because life holds far fewer surprises for them . |
| 21 | If we press this and insist on doubting what the humanist holds as indubitable , we uncover a hornet 's nest of assumptions and presuppositions which are far from being rationally indubitable . |
| 22 | I do n't think this teapot holds as much |
| 23 | And yet I would n't dismiss out of hand Auden 's claim that what he says of our family life holds as true of Coronation Street as of Lowndes Square . |
| 24 | It holds out worthwhile prospects in that lovely part of Shropshire . |
| 25 | Even if the typical criminal sanction holds out little hope as a general deterrent , does it act as a specific deterrent ? |
| 26 | The local law society holds out these solicitors to the general public as having substantial criminal experience but the rule seems to fulfil a symbolic role for the profession . |
| 27 | So in all these kinds of different ways , religion provides succour erm , gratification and er , is the fulfilment of people 's wishes , particularly th their frustrations , their erm , feelings of er being the victims as it were , of the world , can be satisfied to some extent by religious belief , which holds out some , some prospect of and hope , at least in the afterlife , if not , if not in this life . |
| 28 | It is a programme that holds out more than hope for the underclass . |
| 29 | Lucker drops his camera and holds out another knife . |
| 30 | He told a news conference after the meeting : ‘ We must all agree that there should be only one nuclear state ’ in the Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ) , apparently referring to Russia , which holds about 17,000 nuclear warheads . |