Example sentences of "hold water [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example magnesium chloride holds water within its crystal lattice and if you dry it that water comes out , but as it comes out it also strips out the chlorine as hydrogen chloride gas for example . |
| 2 | The potash works continually has to raise its dikes , which hold water in evaporation pans , to prevent the pans becoming clogged with salts . |
| 3 | This is guaranteed by a good crumb structure with fine pores holding water like sponges , whilst allowing air and surplus water to move freely between the crumbs . |
| 4 | Two substances which mimic NMFs , attracting and holding water in the skin , are urea and lactic acid . |
| 5 | The mudskipper manages to do so by holding water in its mouth which it swills over the lining of its mouth with a rolling action of its head to extract the oxygen . |
| 6 | In clay and heavy soils the risk is increased that the hole will then hold water for considerable periods , with the plant and stake actually standing in water . |
| 7 | Hume 's argument , however , does not hold water for the simple reason that it assumes that the question of the possibility of significantly ascribing identity to objects as ontological existents can and should be decided via an analysis of the conditions of their identification , whereas the simple fact is that the concept of an entity as a potential topic of discourse is analytically linked with , and hence inseparable from , that of identity . |
| 8 | But there is one theory which will not hold water for a moment ; and that is , that we were sent here to maintain the present Government in office . |
| 9 | A large container for housing the spider ( see opposite , Making the cage ) ; two small containers , one with a lid , such as small jam jars or pickle jars — one is to catch the spiders in , the other is to hold water for the twigs ; a shallow container such as the plastic lid of a food pack , to hold the water supply ; some fresh leafy twigs ; some well-branched leafless twigs ; soil ; a metre or two of iron wire , about 1 mm diameter ; pieces of black cardboard ; Copydex or similar adhesive . |
| 10 | to get rid of it , as it tends to hold water like a sponge . |
| 11 | It also gave life back to rivers that had n't held water for many years like the River Pang on the Berkshire Downs . |