Example sentences of "hold most [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This will involve new taxes and a cut in subsidies , including the huge fertiliser subsidy regarded as critical in the farming areas that hold most of the voters . |
| 2 | There is much to suggest that the attitudes of society towards sexual offences , particularly the attitudes of many men ( who hold most of the leading posts in the making of policy and law ) , have tended to undervalue the seriousness of sexual assaults . |
| 3 | Inevitably the Americans hold most of the aces in this technology , controlling 85 per cent of the £100m worldwide market for GaAs integrated circuitry . |
| 4 | There is , basically , a class conflict in which the owners hold most of the cards . |
| 5 | Even if we 're not being followed , Matilda 's men hold most of the castles in this part of the country . |
| 6 | In practice this boils down to the governments being saddled with the bulk of the foreign hard currency debts , while it is private individuals in those same countries who hold most of the hard-currency assets . |