Example sentences of "hold [adv] for " in BNC.

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1 This connection between high status employment work and present dissatisfaction with housework holds only for the middle-class women , but there is evidence that the tendency to be dissatisfied with housework in relation to the status of one 's previous job may involve the question of a ‘ reference group ’ .
2 This predication was confirmed although Gur and Gur ( 1977 ) believe that this relation holds only for right handed , left eye dominant males .
3 Hill ( 1963 ) showed that for equal phase rigidities , G , the following result holds exactly for any geometry whatever where are the Voigt and Reuss estimates found earlier .
4 A similar ideological one-sidedness holds both for newspapers and films ( Chibnall 1977 ; Cohen and Young 1980 ; Winick 1978 ) .
5 But it is not a model that holds up for the twentieth century , when liberalization of the divorce law was not a matter of last resort but was rather always proposed as a means of strengthening the institution of marriage ( by permitting those ‘ living in sin ’ to remarry ) ; when opinion shifted with dramatic speed , for example between the conservative recommendations of the 1956 Royal Commission on Divorce and the endorsement of profound liberalization given a mere ten years later by both the Law Commission and the Church of England ; and when the change in views of key institutions such as the Church of England were as important as those of lawyers .
6 Indeed , Bailey holds up for critical scrutiny the idea that schools can prepare young people for a world of rapid technological change by concentrating on the very technology which is subject to change ; rather , he suggests , the best basis for adaptability is a liberal education aimed at generating a wide understanding and the development of reason and autonomy .
7 From a pocket in the case , he removes a copy of a painting of Jesus , which he holds up for me to see , widening his eyes like he used to when challenging an opponent or the press .
8 It holds out for beauty over mere rhetoric , active passion over passive submission .
9 Without the imperative of obedience , albeit lovingly enforced , the child may come to conclude that if he holds out for long enough , demanding his own will , he 'll get his own way in the end .
10 The major obstacles to more conservative — Dr Anusavice holds out for ‘ ultraconservative ’ — dentistry are the outmoded attitudes of dentists and their patients .
11 The man counts the money and they argue for a while , Tod saying nine hundred , the man saying seven , then the man saying six while Tod holds out for a thou , and so on .
12 Well I put me clothes out at twelve o'clock , I says to Linda if it holds out for a couple
13 The smoke analogy holds well for flying brents too .
14 This objection holds equally for Sartre 's Hegelian historicism , the effect of which is to reduce the multiplicity of different practices to a single practice , ‘ real ’ history ’ ( 136 ) .
15 These include a one per cent discount for single contributions and a five per cent loyalty bonus for people who hold on for ten years .
16 Champions hold on for exciting draw
17 Yeah , hold on for a time , I 'll be with you in a minute .
18 Hold still for 10 counts .
19 Hold still for 15 counts .
20 Hold still for 10 counts .
21 Hold still for 20 counts .
22 Hold still for 20 counts .
23 Hold still for 20 counts .
24 Hold still for 20 counts .
25 Hold still for 20 counts .
26 Hold up for a count of 10 .
27 Hold up for a count of 10 .
28 Hold up for 5 counts .
29 Hold up for 10 counts .
30 Raise the elbows , head and shoulders towards the knees and hold up for 3 counts .
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