Example sentences of "hold [adj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Hand In Glove ’ , as if written in the euphoric condition of a new found love affair , holds all the ecstasy of that irrational condition with a typical defeatist twist in the tail . |
| 2 | I also have one in the corner of the living room that holds all the dog 's toys and blankets . |
| 3 | This compilation , mostly recorded recently , despite an inevitably dated feel , holds all the usual advantages and disadvantages of the genre : a mild manner , a certain tricksiness , a breezy cool , a little too chilled . |
| 4 | The church may however avoid tax by a relatively straightforward — and well tried — method , which involves establishing a trading company ( Tradeco ) in which the church holds all the issued share capital . |
| 5 | God holds all the cards and wins all the tricks . |
| 6 | Your side plate holds all the lessons . |
| 7 | King 's Signet , impressive winner of the ultra-competitive Stewards Cup at Goodwood , holds all the aces in the Doncaster Bloodstock Sales Scarbrough Stakes . |
| 8 | The citizens of Hebron , by contrast , hold all the trump cards . |
| 9 | Given that the main impetus behind EMU is the desire of the French to get a seat on the Bundesbank , and given the fact that the Germans hold all the aces , this is hardly surprising . |
| 10 | But because of the cloth ’ — he now pulled at the front of his collarless coat — ‘ they either think that one is n't quite human and is devoid of all these naughty feelings that trouble an ordinary man , or they imagine you hold all the answers . |
| 11 | ‘ So these damnable people hold all the cards ? ’ |
| 12 | The Tax and National Insurance Screens hold all the tax and National Insurance details used in the calculation of the payroll . |
| 13 | Next , I would like to thank John for his support and encouragement I 'd like to mention Carole who has always been there when I 've needed At this point who again has always been very supportive I also want to thank members of the regional both past and present , but particularly I 'd like to thank all the regional officers and staff for their assistance and particularly George , Hugh and the officer I would also like to thank regional political officer for the Midlands and East Coast we now hold all the major positions of the Labour Party with I would also like to thank the national food and leisure committee for their help and support and particularly to David , Nick and To conclude , President , I 'd like to express my sincere thanks and love to those important people around me , my family . |
| 14 | Just as if , if we are in a sort , team leader or a section head as I 've shown , it does n't mean to say that we hold all the knowledge , we can pass it on to others , who can he pass it on to somebody else although you ultimately may be responsible for the training of other people , you do n't need to do it all yourself do you , but unless you pass on skills , you 're gon na make a sort of a quite a vicious circle for yourself are n't ya ? |
| 15 | ‘ Even a blind man could see that I hold all the cards in this situation , ’ he told her flatly as she trailed slowly and miserably into the room behind him . |
| 16 | The landlords still hold all the power . |
| 17 | In other words , holding constant the controlled domain , hierarchy increases as authorized decision-making becomes more concentrated amongst people in an organization . |
| 18 | The figure that we have come up with in fact is derived by holding constant the numbers rather than the rate of vacant dwellings through to the year two thousand and six , which implies that by the year two thousand six , we 'd have would have a vacancy rate of six point two percent or or thereabouts . |
| 19 | You must then perform a small conjuring trick — holding all the layers of the picture firmly together , turn the frame and picture upside down and place on the table , then fix on the hardboard back . |
| 20 | ‘ The French are in Frasnes , and we 're holding all the farms beyond the stream . |
| 21 | And then we were held up at a place because some of our tanks e e the seventy ninth armoured division was er holding all the special tanks er which were flamethrowers and flails and all these sort of things . |
| 22 | ‘ He 's got a teacher bossing him around who 's about four years older than he is , if that , and a lot less self-confident , but holding all the aces . |
| 23 | The brilliant spell of weather was still holding good the following morning . |
| 24 | He ended the War holding both the Croix de Guerre and the petainiste decoration , the ‘ francisque ’ . |
| 25 | It could not hold half the papers that were in my cupboard . ’ |
| 26 | We now consider the concept of balanced growth incidence , where changes in taxation are accompanied by offsetting adjustments in monetary policy to hold constant the capital-labour ratio . |
| 27 | This is a device similar to a normal cassette recorder but which takes bigger tape cassettes , each of which can hold all the data and programs on your computer . |
| 28 | She had a growing conviction that conventional psychology could not hold all the answers — and that there was a missing link which meant that , very often , people 's problems remained unsolved . |
| 29 | It will hold all the excess line you are ever likely to need , and its very concept of reeling will preserve the line from those snarls we mentioned earlier , because the line has little option but to reel back in the same form as it was reeled out . |
| 30 | Then they did hold all the cards . ’ |