Example sentences of "[modal v] hold [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having realised how crucial START 1 and NPT ratification are to the West , many Ukrainians — 90% , according to the latest opinion polls — believe their country should hold out for financial compensation ; the current price tag , described as covering the costs of dismantling the warheads , is $1 billion . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But I doubt he 'll hold out for the money . |
| 4 | ‘ She 'd hold out for a while but it would always be made up after he came back with the roses . |
| 5 | I debated whether to be sick or not myself , and decided that I could hold out for another half hour . |
| 6 | The main argument from the Corsican was that they could hold out for ever . |
| 7 | Although it may hold back for reasons of cost and supply , and because the housing market is static , during this decade I believe we will see an increasing spread of relocation moves to those parts of the country which offer a better quality of life than London and the South-East . ’ |
| 8 | The door was solid and would hold up for quite a long time . |
| 9 | And this is the other aspect of Freud 's debt to Darwin which I mentioned at the beginning but said I would hold over for later . |
| 10 | It is important that we do not get away from the fact that , when any charge is laid , there must be evidence that will hold up for convicting somebody of that charge . |
| 11 | We can hold out for days . |