Example sentences of "hold [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 31 | These rules still hold good for choreographers who work in the classical medium and the wise ones never neglect them . |
| 32 | Therefore , rather than attempting to generate theories which hold good for all countries , generalisations may only be possible if ‘ types ’ can be established . |
| 33 | Nor would the suggestion of a derivational link to a noun hold good for an associative use of young rather common in advertisements : ( 14 ) the young place to go young clothes the young thing to do Another thing to emphasize is that what we are considering does not depend on a change of sense in the adjective ; in some cases , certainly , the shift from ascription to association or vice versa may be accompanied by or compatible with such a lexical change ; but this may happen equally in cases of classical structural ambiguity , such as : ( 15 ) Charles will give a talk on the village green where two different senses of on are called upon , as one shifts from the one structure to the other . |
| 34 | Most of the ideas , techniques and strategies described in Part Two hold good for working with young children , but it is worth devoting time to a specific discussion of how one might adapt the work on still image and forum theatre for use with this age group , as they are sometimes thought to be strategies that can only be successfully used with older children . |
| 35 | Vertical thinking is an alternation of the processes of deduction and induction to find and prove algorithms that hold true for all known applications . |
| 36 | Do 10 mini raises , holding each for 1 second . |
| 37 | and say well we 'll hold that for five months but then we 'll go back to the |
| 38 | Can you hold that for a mo ? |
| 39 | Shall I hold that for you while we put |
| 40 | Now that would do , that would do whether the , whether the knuckles were hurt or it was just a minor cut in the palm of the hand there , that would do and you can use the same type of bandage on the foot alright , so that 's if the hand was damaged , now supposing we did n't have the hand damaged , but we had instead a cut up here , okay , again clean it and if you clean it with lots of water always remember to dry off around the wound because bugs love a moist skin to grow in , dry the wound before you apply the dressing okay if you can , dry it off the best you can and then you 're going to place that over the cut , remember you want the pad to be long enough , big enough , okay , now she can hold this for you again , she can hold it above where the wound is and now when you bandage this one you always bandage from the narrow part to the fat part of the limb , you always bandage from the narrow to the fat , so you take the bandage down |
| 41 | Let me hold this for you . |
| 42 | The preference for the parent-child relationship as a source of routine moral and emotional support seems to hold good for the white majority , but perhaps less so for people with different ethnic cultural backgrounds . |
| 43 | There appeared to be a determinate , stable , inverse relationship between the rate of change of money wages and the unemployment rate which had continued to hold good for almost a century . |
| 44 | One man at least was wrongly classed as a tailor , namely Stephen Jenings , who had served as Mayor in 1508 — 9 , and was now the highest assessed citizen at £3,000 ; the same must hold good for other rich tailors , since the craft itself was poorly remunerated . |
| 45 | I consider that this must also hold good for the right of establishment : in order for a national of a member state to be eligible to be regarded as exercising his right of establishment in another member state , it is not enough that he should be operating a fishing vessel registered in that state ; in addition , his activity must have other links with the territory of that State . |
| 46 | However true this may be for the economic development of the United States — and even there such contentious hypotheticals are highly dubious — it certainly can not hold good for European expansion and supremacy in the later nineteenth century . |
| 47 | This will hold good for the more regularly used applications . |
| 48 | This situation would not necessarily hold true for another council . ’ |
| 49 | The common argument that owner-occupation offers greater mobility does not generally hold true for women , as was clear in our discussion of what happens on marital breakdown . |
| 50 | Although care must be taken in generalizing too much from Newby 's research in East Anglia , these contentions might well hold true for other rural areas of Britain . |
| 51 | Todor ( 1980 ) predicted that this would hold true for other tasks mediated by the language hemisphere and he therefore required his subjects to carry out a sequential motor task . |
| 52 | All the results found in studies on non-alcoholic subjects may not hold true for chronic alcoholic patients . |
| 53 | The same ought to hold true for a disk drive or whatever , as long as the chassis into which it plugs remains the same . |
| 54 | Although some of the West 's Arab partners have hinted that they might be able to live with this and that a settlement of the Arab-Israeli dispute and the Palestinian issue is no longer at the top of the Arab agenda , this is unlikely to hold true for long . |
| 55 | To explain this point ( which Barro ( 1977a ) recognizes in a footnote , p.107 fn. 15 ) and also to demonstrate that Barro 's results appear to hold true for countries other than the US , we shall outline a model similar to Barro 's which Attfield , Demery and Duck ( 1981a ) ( henceforth ADD ) applied to UK annual data for the period 1946–77 . |
| 56 | Pomerantz 1975 , 1984 ) to hold true for interactions among middle-class speakers of English in some communities . |
| 57 | I watched him jog off , the head held high for the first twenty yards , to promote oxygenation , then tucked in low as he measured out the rhythm of his pace . |
| 58 | Hopes were held high for just seven verses . |
| 59 | One is that if the coordinate r is held fixed for any length of time the interval is negative and space-like . |
| 60 | Where prices were once held constant for five year periods , from 1976 onwards they have been revised annually on the basis of a five-year moving average of world market prices . |