Example sentences of "[noun sg] hold the [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Dr Clarke 's analysis , context and intention hold the keys to the history of ideas . |
| 2 | In Strathclyde , the region from which Gordon Sloan , the Acting Reporter in Orkney , came , it is the general practice to hold the hearing on the seventh day . |
| 3 | Bowe , 6ft 5in and 235lb , and with an 81-inch reach , represents the man mountain that Holyfield must scale if he is to be accepted as someone other than a caretaker holding the keys to the division until another genuine champion arrives . |
| 4 | The sequence bits of a micro-instruction hold the address of the next instruction to be executed , and this field is gated into the SAR of the control store at the beginning of the next micro-instruction cycle . |
| 5 | Hugh Andrew 's reels , inspired by John Wilding , the Deep Sky type on a supporting pylon and the Strato-spool with a belly band to hold the bar to the waist and permit a free hand to apply leverage on the end of the bar . |
| 6 | Guy found his gaze moving slowly over Isabel as if her body held the answers to the questions in his mind . |
| 7 | The Gaboon viper holds the record for the longest fangs — of the snake 's 3 m ( 10 ft ) length , the fangs measure almost 3 cm ( 1 in ) . |
| 8 | The butcher holds the head by the hair and deftly scalps it , then , tying the long black hair into a knot , he tosses it into the gully . |
| 9 | Similarly , the title of mayor or lord mayor where retained adds to the social status but not to the legal position of the person holding the chair of the council . |
| 10 | Henry married Matilda , sister of the King of Scotland , himself a direct descendant of Alfred the Great , and Henry established a civil service and a centralized exchequer to hold the government of the people together . |
| 11 | Ploughs must be operated by 2 men , one to guide the horses and the other to hold the plough in the furrow so that it will not roll down the hill . |
| 12 | To obtain uniform segments I use a cutting jig to hold the plank at the desired angle . |
| 13 | The Landlord demises to the Tenant the Premises Together with the rights specified in the second Schedule but Excepting and reserving to the Landlord the rights specified in the third Schedule To hold the Premises to the Tenant for the Contractual Term Subject to all rights easements privileges restrictions covenants and stipulations of whatever nature affecting the Premises [ including the matters contained or referred to in the seventh Schedule ] Yielding and paying to the Landlord : |
| 14 | Mike Moore became Prime Minister of New Zealand on Sept. 4 , after being elected leader of the ruling Labour Party ; he became the third person to hold the post in the space of 13 months . |
| 15 | He will be the third person to hold the job at the 53-year-old company , reportedly selected after a two-year process . |
| 16 | For the first time , an English king held the duchy from the French crown in liege homage . |
| 17 | The home record storage area holds the address of the first synonym . |
| 18 | It was a simple duty to perform , walking alongside the coffin holding the hem of the pall . |
| 19 | ‘ I called him in , expressed my gratitude at his willingness to hold the fort in the boarding annexe , and then … offered him a sherry , if he should feel like it , later on . ’ |
| 20 | Indeed , perhaps the principal occupational deformation in the written arts , the social sciences and in journalism is the belief that one 's particular profession holds the key to the meaning of social life . |
| 21 | The idea , he says , is to spread the message that neither organised religion nor conventional science holds the answers to the world 's problems . |
| 22 | Spackman is seen walking out of a black niche , his right leg forward , and the right hand holding the winding-sheet against the outer thigh ; underneath he wears an open shirt with broad cuffs from which the draw-strings have been released . |
| 23 | The clerk , a rogue , instructed the dock company to hold the timber to the order of ‘ Brown ’ ( which was the clerk under an assumed name ) . |
| 24 | Moreover , the Thessalians by tradition held the presidency of the Amphictyonic Council ( Syll. 175 ) which could be useful when it came to putting a motion . |
| 25 | Late on Sept. 20 UK Prime Minister John Major ( whose country held the presidency of the EC Council of Ministers for the second half of 1992 ) announced that he would call an emergency summit to discuss ratification of the Treaty and to " deal with the particular problems in the foreign exchange markets in recent days , that have revealed shortcomings in the exchange rate mechanism system " . |
| 26 | Your partner holds the pad at the side of the shin of the flexed leg . |
| 27 | Following the general election in April 1989 the Arab Baath Socialist Party holds the majority of the Assembly seats , the remainder being distributed among members of the state-sponsored National Progressive Patriotic Front ( NPPF ) [ see p. 36601 ] . |
| 28 | [ T ] he state is something more than a mere collection of families , or an agglomeration of occupational organisation , or a referee holding the ring between the conflicting interests of the voluntary associations which it permits to exist . |
| 29 | Clifford Bradley had half hidden himself from the rest of the company behind the table holding the model of the new Laboratory . |
| 30 | Unscrew any bath panelling and use a bath/basin spanner on the nearest tap to unscrew the nut holding the pipe to the tap , then the nut holding the tap to the bath . |