Example sentences of "[modal v] hold [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the principle of contesting every seat holds good in England , Scotland and Wales it should hold good in Northern Ireland as well . |
| 2 | You will note that they are initially indicating that you should hold some of the Flybynight stock for a period of two years . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | and say well we 'll hold that for five months but then we 'll go back to the |
| 5 | The same ought to hold true for a disk drive or whatever , as long as the chassis into which it plugs remains the same . |
| 6 | Family religion forged bonds which , it was hoped , would hold firm through the valley of death . |
| 7 | The official results of the legislative elections held on Nov. 22 [ see pp. 39186-87 ] were announced on Dec. 5 , confirming that the New Majority-Change-90 ( NM-Cambio-90 ) coalition supporting President Alberto Keinya Fujimori would hold 44 of the 80 seats in the new Democratic Constituent Congress ( CCD ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Building and running a stadium that would hold tens of thousands of spectators was an expensive business and not usually a profitable one . |
| 10 | This will hold good for the more regularly used applications . |
| 11 | Holders of the prefs will forego dividends in return for 13.7 per cent compound growth over the trust 's seven years , thereby allowing the managers to increase dividends to ordinary shareholders who will hold two-thirds of the capital . |
| 12 | HOWEVER confident we pretend to be that the Conservatives will be returned with a majority of at least 25 , we must accept the possibility that this gesticulating Welsh oaf will hold centre-stage until such time as the economy , public order and constitution collapse about his ears . |
| 13 | Then using eqn ( 7.4 ) this becomes , after rearrangement , which , being expressed entirely in terms of tensors , will hold true under general transformations of coordinates . |
| 14 | Whether that will hold true across the country remains to be seen . |
| 15 | If given three or more parameters as input , it can hold all but two constant and discover a law relating these two ; then treat the constants ( c , k ) within this law as new parameters , and relate them to the other inputs . |
| 16 | Now that would do , that would do whether the , whether the knuckles were hurt or it was just a minor cut in the palm of the hand there , that would do and you can use the same type of bandage on the foot alright , so that 's if the hand was damaged , now supposing we did n't have the hand damaged , but we had instead a cut up here , okay , again clean it and if you clean it with lots of water always remember to dry off around the wound because bugs love a moist skin to grow in , dry the wound before you apply the dressing okay if you can , dry it off the best you can and then you 're going to place that over the cut , remember you want the pad to be long enough , big enough , okay , now she can hold this for you again , she can hold it above where the wound is and now when you bandage this one you always bandage from the narrow part to the fat part of the limb , you always bandage from the narrow to the fat , so you take the bandage down |