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

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1 They include Azabu Group , which plans to sell 60 properties worth around ¥200 billion by the end of June ; Itoman , a trading company which hopes to sell and lease back its Osaka headquarters for ¥80 billion as a first step towards paying off its debt of ¥1.3 trillion , much of it owed to Sumitomo Bank ; and MDI , which wants to unload ¥50 billion out of ¥150 billion worth of residential property that it holds for development .
2 This time tomorrow we 'll know at long last what the future holds for Oxford United and Swindon Town , with a dramatic finale to the football league season in store .
3 While there may be some uncertainty about what the future holds for Britain 's larger provincial cities , there can be little doubt about the massive strength of decentralization forces in the case of London .
4 ‘ This holds for gravity as well as acceleration .
5 This characteristic is quite general and holds for geodesics in spaces that are less symmetric than that of a sphere , and in spaces of hi–her dimension .
6 IF YOU want to know what the future holds for Europe 's financial markets , the best guess is usually to look at America 's present .
7 We are particularly worried about the implications war holds for women .
8 Stella Lowry 's analysis of the problems affecting medical education ( which ends this week , p 000 ) holds for countries other than Britain .
9 A similar expression holds for |G| .
10 This pattern holds for nitrate , which accounts for most of the nitrogen in the bay , and especially for nitrogen from ammonia , which , though a small part of the total , is far more prevalent in rainwater than in run-off .
11 But the minimal point , that men did not act without taking women 's opinions into account , surely holds for quarrels as much as it did for decisions about education , and for the nineteenth as much as the twentieth century .
12 Whatever the future holds for Northern Ireland , it is clear that Ian Paisley has moved from being a prophet crying in the wilderness to the centre of the unionist stage .
13 This high ranking holds for seizures of heroin , persons found guilty of drug offences , and new and former drug addicts notified to the Home Office ( Home Office 1986 ) .
14 It is difficult to predict what the future holds for LCC .
15 Generalizations hold for the known cases which prompted them but are not scientifically interesting unless they also hold for others .
16 Ultimately the attractiveness of MINIS-type systems to public sector managers lies in the comprehensive picture which they can provide of organizational activities , and also in the potential which they hold for decentralization within departments .
17 Similar relationships hold for cycles of futures contracts with different delivery dates , as shown in Fig. 8.2 .
18 The same conditions hold for totalization .
19 It is said that Scotland should content herself with arrangements similar to those holding for Bavaria or Catalonia or Flanders .
20 What terrors did the pit hold for traitors ?
21 A degree of frustration With the influx of students from the Republic what does the future hold for Ulster 's high-flyers ?
22 Whatever the rest of the season may hold for Aberdeen , they have on their side a ferocious competitor whose appetite for the fray has gone undiminished by time .
23 Jane had been hurt by her parents ' occasional references to her in newspaper interviews as being a ‘ difficult child ’ or other remarks prompted only by Laura 's nagging worries about what the future might hold for Jane .
24 So what does the future hold for Fiona and David ?
25 Business Monitor : Management backing the Union Andrew Griffiths looks north of the border and towards what the future might hold for Scotland
26 The fact that he demonstrated his interest in those eight cases , emphasised them and talked so wildly about them , shows that his concern is not with the genuine asylum seeker , but with diminishing the respect that this country should hold for people who are in desperate trouble and whom , in better and more self-confident days , hon. Members of all parties would have been in favour of helping .
27 Despite the quality of the exhibits and the rigorous and scholarly catalogue ( containing , among much else , an essay on ‘ The Birth of the Modern Museum ’ by Marc Fumaroli and a reflection on ‘ What does the Future hold for Museums ? ’ by the same author ) , the show was only averagely well attended with 248,000 visitors .
28 I have not seen that report , but I have expressed before the dangers that a minimum wage policy would hold for employment levels .
29 Similar prescriptions would hold for sociology 's ‘ self-reflexive critique ’ .
30 Suppose now that a tenant in fee simple granted the land to another to hold for life or in tall .
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