Example sentences of "have hold [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Behind the scrum — where Ian Hunter will have to prove he is fully recovered after a spate of leg injuries — Rob Andrew , as suspected , has held off the late challenge of Ellwood , though coach Ian McGeechan will certainly want him to do more to compromise the enemy back row . |
| 2 | The decline of the West Indian sugar economy , and the near-complete ability of the US cotton economy to supply its own black labour through the reproduction of its gender-balanced slave population , lessened the vested interest which might otherwise have held off the evangelical/humanitarian reformers rather longer . |
| 3 | The post of Vice-President , which Cotti had held for the past year , was taken by René Felber ( Social Democratic Party — SPS ) , Minister for Political ( Foreign ) Affairs . |
| 4 | These were the highest offices Arabs had held in the Israeli government since 1973 , when Abdel-Aziz Zoabi had been Deputy Minister of Health . |
| 5 | Following the August legislative and presidential elections [ see p. 39064 ] , the new Croatian government was sworn in on Sept. 8 ; seven ministers and one deputy prime minister retained the posts they had held in the previous government . |
| 6 | They have been reported as spending a great deal of time analysing conversations that they have held with the various Ketamine entities . |