Example sentences of "hold [adj] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One man at least was wrongly classed as a tailor , namely Stephen Jenings , who had served as Mayor in 1508 — 9 , and was now the highest assessed citizen at £3,000 ; the same must hold good for other rich tailors , since the craft itself was poorly remunerated . |
| 2 | However true this may be for the economic development of the United States — and even there such contentious hypotheticals are highly dubious — it certainly can not hold good for European expansion and supremacy in the later nineteenth century . |
| 3 | Although care must be taken in generalizing too much from Newby 's research in East Anglia , these contentions might well hold true for other rural areas of Britain . |
| 4 | Todor ( 1980 ) predicted that this would hold true for other tasks mediated by the language hemisphere and he therefore required his subjects to carry out a sequential motor task . |
| 5 | All the results found in studies on non-alcoholic subjects may not hold true for chronic alcoholic patients . |