Example sentences of "hold [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IMI holds total despite third annual setback |
| 2 | He ( unlike those he holds guilty of some of the corrupt practices that seem to obsess him both here , and in the Regiment of Princes , the coin-clippers and counterfeiters ) , has done nothing wrong . |
| 3 | Or Dostoevsky holds firm to a certain grandness and climactic force , while inverting the podvig and rendering it passive , when Stavrogin ‘ endures ’ a tremendous punch in the face from Shatov . |
| 4 | BATTERED AND BRUISED IRISH Mick Galwey holds firm as the All Black pack — with no.8 Arran Pene to the fore here — fails to click in Dunedin during the First Test . |
| 5 | Vietnam holds firm against tide of reform with new press law . |
| 6 | South holds key for Gandhi in close election . |
| 7 | McKillen holds key for Antrim |
| 8 | Flower holds key to Widnes glory |
| 9 | Jetstream holds key to Prestwick expansion |
| 10 | Crucial Paris meeting holds key to future |
| 11 | Did classical theory surreptitiously admit the quantity theory of money — a theory which only holds good at full employment — through the back door in order to fix the price level independently of the level of money wages ? |
| 12 | This holds good on condition that we are restricting our attention , as in this study , to syntax ; once we take the broader view which embraces speakers ' knowledge of vocabulary as well , then we must admit a real analogue to this relation since speakers are quite aware that their language habitually uses , for example this set of words to instantiate E , and that set of words to instantiate P ( or , in most languages , various sets of words to instantiate the Ps occurring in various different intensional patterns ; see Appendix B , Section 7 ) . |
| 13 | That he got into his stride so quickly at the pre-Wimbledon Queen 's Club tournament was evidence of his timing ability , an ability that holds good for both sports . |
| 14 | Switch across to the Boost channel on OD2 and the setting still holds good for that real processed , ‘ I 've spent an arm and a leg on my effects rack ’ sound . |
| 15 | Scudamore hopes his judgement holds good for tomorrow 's Gold Cup . |
| 16 | The ‘ open cup ’ principle holds good for most types — there are just two or three growth habits like Bourbons and Musks that do not lend themselves to it too well , and we will deal with them later . |
| 17 | Perhaps this holds good for makers of motor-cars . |
| 18 | The following analysis of the influence of armaments engineers on policy making also holds good for telecoms engineers : The key roles played by the corps of armaments engineers in making France 's arms complex run can hardly be exaggerated . |
| 19 | The same principle holds good for all pairs of wind instruments in combination unless , of course , the two bottom notes of the chord lie outside the downward compass of the upper pair of instruments . |
| 20 | This distinction of style holds good for the whole of Greek art … " |
| 21 | There seems to be much evidence for believing , therefore , that the bi-partisan model of political conflict holds good for much of the reigns of William and Anne . |
| 22 | Scudamore hopes his judgment holds good for tomorrow 's Gold Cup . |
| 23 | If the principle of contesting every seat holds good in England , Scotland and Wales it should hold good in Northern Ireland as well . |
| 24 | Erm , nor I think are there any proposals to change the grading or pay honorarium to P As to reflect there work on these files , er , I 'm not sure whether the assumption that this would n't be taken into account by the W R is sound , because I think one of the principles that I recall was that he were meant to ensure that that each of these job evaluation panels had somebody from each office so that an account could be taken of the different practices , I mean I 'm sure that , I 'm sure that each of the three offices in the er deal with things in a different way , so that er what gets done by one person here is not necessarily done by people in Coventry and York , and that in fa in London , and that also holds good in the other way , I think . |
| 25 | Thus although the sociolinguistic profile " High : Standard English/Low : Creole " holds good throughout the ex-British Caribbean almost without exception , we need to make a distinction between those places where the majority speak a Creole with English-derived vocabulary , and those where most or some of the populace speak a Creole with French-derived vocabulary . |
| 26 | The same holds true about the plasma concentrations which , although they were determined by a new ELISA , were within the same range ( 70–350 ng/mL ) in responsive patients from Cameroon and the Congo as in non-responsive patients from the Congo . |
| 27 | If the same holds true for contextual cues in latent inhibition , then giving an animal experience of the context alone ( i.e. without any presentations of the target stimulus ) should not eliminate the ability of the context to activate the associative information about the target stimulus that was established during pre-exposure ( e.g. the information that the target is followed by no significant event ) . |
| 28 | If God could say to Paul ‘ my power is made perfect in weakness ’ ( 2 Corinthians 12:9 ) , the same holds true for you . |
| 29 | The same holds true for biographical representations . |
| 30 | Whether that holds true for very frail old people is doubtful as Wenger herself recognises . |