Example sentences of "hold [adv] for [art] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hold up for a count of 10 . |
| 2 | Hold up for a count of 10 . |
| 3 | Hold up for a count of 10 . |
| 4 | Hold up for a count of 10 , relax and repeat . |
| 5 | This is the issue which occupies Anne Phillips , Sylvia Walby and Michèle Barrett in particular , with a certain consensus that , after all , we must hold out for a version of modernism ( against post-modernism ) , and what Phillips calls a ‘ middle route ’ which retains its aspiration to universalism . |
| 6 | St Albans held on for the rest of the match to win 2–1 and take the ladies ' title for the second time and make up for four previous final defeats by Mutineers . |
| 7 | It relies instead on a political theory about the legitimacy of private power and the conditions subject to which that power may be exercised : a theory that contends that power may be legitimately held only for the purpose of furthering the public good . |
| 8 | According to the quantity theory , money is held only for the purpose of making payments for current transactions . |
| 9 | By the end of the Middle Ages there were various categories of copyholder , the best placed being those who held by inheritance with the entry fine to the land being fixed , while the less fortunate held for a term of life , with an uncertain entry fine to be paid by the successor , or even , although this was unusual , held only for a term of years ( 79 , p.47 ; 82 , pp.60–2 ) . |
| 10 | It was normal practice for Rome to establish buffer states on her frontiers in the form of client kingdoms , an arrangement which held only for the lifetime of the chosen ruler . |
| 11 | A hall in the Andersonian University was procured , and meetings were held there for a number of years , with periods spent in Balfour 's School , North Portland Street ( 1848–1850 ) , the Young Men 's Christian Association , North Frederick Street ( 1857–8 ) . |
| 12 | There was , too , something unaccountable about Richard — perhaps the same wilfulness that induced him to live offshore although his marriage was in a perilous state — which attracted him to Pratts because celebrations were only held there for the death of a king or queen . |