Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] hold [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charles 's territories could already have been described as an empire , in the sense that he ruled over a collection of different political units held together by the allegiance his subjects felt they owed him rather than through a sense of common institutions or common language which could serve as the foundation for a unifying national spirit . |
| 2 | Mungo had a vision of his dark head tilted back to drink the rain , and his outstretched palms held up to the sun . |
| 3 | Coates ( 1985 , pp. 27 , 77 ) , for example , argues that in recent decades narrative has broken down to be replaced by a cinema of ‘ isolated heterogeneous events held together by the ramshackle constructions of Victorian melodrama ’ , and that from the mid-1960s we have seen the dissolution of the distinction between realist and non-realist film . |
| 4 | The longer that socialist parties held on to the old orthodoxies , the worse they have suffered . |
| 5 | And the long-suffering elder , which always looks beautiful , graceful , however much you cut it , with its lacy plates held out to the sun . |
| 6 | Scrubby hawthorns hold back at the brink . |
| 7 | and only occasional services held there by the various members of the Presbytery . |
| 8 | Handsome glaucous foliage and erect narrow spikes of white and yellow blooms held just above the water . |
| 9 | A loose net was fixed between the prongs of the ‘ Y ’ and thus , with the open prongs held firmly in the bed of the river , the fishermen would wait quietly for the fish to run into his net . |
| 10 | Striking spikes of yellow antirrhinum-like flowers held well above the water . |
| 11 | Whereas in the past teachers held on to the professionalism of hearing children read as their specialist preserve , they have now realised that perhaps their professionalism lies elsewhere . |