Example sentences of "which hold the [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | BBC BASIC does this for you automatically and provides a pointer PTR# ( a pseudo-variable ) which holds the position of the NEXT character ( byte ) to be written/read . |
| 2 | There is also a 16-bit stack pointer register , which holds the address of the top of a stack or last-in-first-out list of store locations ( see Chapter 3 ) . |
| 3 | It pays to drill holes in the battens , for the nails which hold the panel to the posts , to avoid splitting . |
| 4 | Government in the New Style consists in gambling with the interests of the nation to propitiate the various mutinous factions which hold the balance in the House of Commons . " |
| 5 | Simultaneously the men of the bank support section tugged and pulled their steel wire ropes and tirfor winches into place , to provide anchorages from which to hold the ends of the bridge in the correct depth of water for loading . |
| 6 | Yemen , which held the presidency of the UN Security Council in December [ see pp. 37870-71 ] , had proposed on Dec. 2 , through its UN permanent representative Abdallah Saleh al-Ashtal , that attempts should be made to " clarify the positive consequences " , including the lifting of economic sanctions and the withdrawal of all foreign troops from the Gulf . |
| 7 | The Luxembourg government , which held the presidency of the Council of Ministers for the first half of 1991 , presented a redrafted draft union treaty on June 20 . |
| 8 | The Commission had pressed for a 35 per cent reduction , while the latest compromise proposal by the Portuguese government ( which held the presidency of the EC Council of Ministers for the first half of 1992 ) argued for a reduction of 27 per cent . |
| 9 | John Major , Prime Minister of the United Kingdom , which held the presidency of the EC Council of Ministers for the second half of 1992 , declared that Edinburgh would " be remembered as the summit that put the Community back together " . |
| 10 | The first gerrymander of the city occurred in 1896 , with the Londonderry improvement Bill ; this created five electoral wards , one of which held the bulk of the city 's Catholics , and enabled the Unionists to have a majority in the others . |