Example sentences of "[modal v] hold [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This clerk is amorously alive and even experienced : — " " deerne love " " is as double in meaning here as it is at the beginning of Dame Sirith , and the same must hold for the semantically similar " " privee " " ; slyness is very much more the quality of a fabliau lover ( cf. |
| 2 | Under the trust route the widow will be left the £1M of non-qualifying assets and will use them to " buy " ( by way of exchange ) the qualifying assets ( which she must hold for the requisite two years ( before death ) ) . |
| 3 | There was a slight tremor to the hand she had raised , as if she could hold off the madness that way , and she dropped it swiftly as she absorbed the hardness of his saturnine face and the overt demand glittering hotly in his eyes . |
| 4 | Such a regime may hold at the centre of galaxies or close to collapsed stars . |
| 5 | If previous attempts to dictate dress are anything to go by , sartorial discipline may hold in the Politburo , but the decree will have little immediate impact in the street . |
| 6 | while purchasing power parity may hold in the long run if real shocks are unimportant , in the short run the exchange rate is not caused by PPP considerations ; rather , with the exchange rate clearing the asset markets , variations in international competitiveness lead to equilibrating changes in the size of the traded goods sector . |
| 7 | At the outset I should emphasise that in the proceedings the only question raised is one of law , to be answered on the assumption that the assignments were genuine and valid transactions and that there was no arrangement or understanding that an assignee would hold for the assignor any compensation received by him from the fund . |
| 8 | The laws of science would hold at the beginning , as elsewhere . |
| 9 | While the escorts would hold off the Royal Navy the transports would make a short , 100-mile [ 160-km ] crossing , to around Maldon on the River Blackwater in Essex , a mere 40 miles [ 64 km ] from London . |
| 10 | There was no guarantee that it would lead to a new deal for the industry nor that , even as a compromise , it would hold against the tensions of a situation in which one side at least seemed determined to continue on a collision course . |
| 11 | His blueprint for evolving ‘ a genuine parliamentary democracy ’ will be discussed at a preparatory conference next spring which the European parliament will hold with the Council of Ministers and the bureaucratic Commission . |
| 12 | Where the wife and new husband are to hold as beneficial joint tenants it is not strictly necessary to incorporate an express power of sale and purport to extend the powers of the trustees of the conveyance in the conveyance since the Law of Property Act 1925 ( ss35 and 36 ) already implies that they will hold upon the " statutory trusts " . |
| 13 | Our Presidency will reach its climax at the Edinburgh meeting of the European Council , which we will hold in the historic palace of Holyrood House . |
| 14 | I confirm that the Government 's nerve will hold in the context of the twin track of political progress and a robust security policy conducted under the rule of law . |
| 15 | His trainer Peter Harris won a race at Folkestone the following week and Supertop , with the rain-softened ground he probably needs , can hold off the likely challenge from winning hurdler Sunset Reins Free in the Barbican Handicap . |
| 16 | Tip three tonight is Abbey View Margo in race seven , trap two ; well drawn , she can hold off the threats of trap one , Vera May . |