Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] hold the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was staring at the coffin , the wooden box with fancy trimmings which held the mortal remains of Edwin Garland , her uncle and employer . |
| 2 | There 's no way of testing whether the strip of card which holds the cracker 's ‘ bang ’ is easy to grasp ; no indication if the whole cracker is easy to break , or tough as last year 's turkey ; and no clues as to whether the cracker makes a loud , emphatic noise . |
| 3 | In a situation of panic , in an army , for example , there is a loss of the libidinal ties which hold the group together , and people behave in ways which take no account of the group : it is each man for himself ; orders are ignored . |
| 4 | If you find that you get ‘ lost ’ while knitting and transferring , mark the centre stitch which holds the three stitches by bringing a pusher from the blocking rail as a marker . |
| 5 | From psychoanalysis , aesthetics and obstetrics to housework , children 's games , munitions factories and pinball machines , images which hold the screen for an instant are woven into a rich critique of production line society ’ . |
| 6 | Under the wide distribution of in-service funding , decisions will be local about which courses should be organized and sought from other people ( from local authority advisers , educational consultants or higher education ) and which courses the teachers of the school or group of schools which holds the purse-strings should be asked or encouraged to attend . |
| 7 | Even though there was a serious risk that its reaction with the hot burning metal would cause a hydrogen explosion , thousands of gallons of water at the highest pressure possible were pumped through the channels which held the burning fuel . |
| 8 | You also get a key which holds the other half of the sensor ; pressing the key against the sensor gives you access to your machine . |
| 9 | This small group needs the authority to make decisions on behalf of organizations who hold the purse-strings and therefore must be made up of individuals who are trusted and respected within their own organizations . |
| 10 | ( Except for one Harvard undergraduate who held the world record , and seemed able to go on springing forever . ) |
| 11 | Nawa Shariff lost the election and he 's lost the battle for the independence and members of minority parties who hold the balance of power . |
| 12 | It was the living who held the power to hurt . |
| 13 | He held a copy of Milton 's works in his hands , but whenever he quoted from the poet he held the book aloft , like the Gospel at High Mass , sometimes going so far as to wave it to and fro behind his head as he chanted out the words . |
| 14 | But it 's ultimately the city which will make the final decision ; the big institutions which hold the majority of Dowty shares . |
| 15 | But since her captivity , a babel seethed around her constantly , the cries and demands of Sycorax , the commands of the men on guard over her , the hammering and planing of the pales for the stockade and for the settlers ' other plans ; the shouts of the men from the boat-building on the beach , the barking of orders to bondsmen brought from England on the ship that had returned , the yells of slaves whom they had loaded in Dahomey or Yoruba on the journey back , and roped and chained and put to work under the whip , and the bellowing laughter now and then of the overseer , a tall African who had been taken out of chains himself to hold the lash over his fellows . |
| 16 | The board which holds the wicket sequence l.e.d.s is shown in Fig. 4 . |
| 17 | One end of a curved steel needle , which was called a prick , was inserted in a hole in the top of a knitting sheath , a traditional carved stick which held the needle firm and was placed in the knitter 's belt . |
| 18 | Severn Trent which held the record for disconnections last year , the chief executive , Roderick sold one hundred and thirty seven thousand shares at four hundred and eighty eight P under a share options scheme , and that was after buying them the same day , for two hundred and sixty two P . |
| 19 | On later models it is the tag which holds the rad cap chain and is thus marked 4M54 , which means April 1954 . |
| 20 | Once more inside the pen I held the shovel in front of me and tried to usher the huge sow towards the door . |
| 21 | 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 . " |
| 22 | It pays to drill holes in the battens , for the nails which hold the panel to the posts , to avoid splitting . |
| 23 | Insert the special beading which holds the glass in place |
| 24 | One could see the edges of the iron basket which held the fire . |
| 25 | When they reacted the drug with a self complementary two ’ stranded , six-base DNA chain , they found that the hydrogen bonding which holds the two strands together can not compete with the bonding of the platinum complex to adjacent guanine groups ( see Figure ) . |
| 26 | One complaint , which often occurred , was that it is the blacks who hold the real prejudices . |
| 27 | To the south they held the Saintonge for a while but the Counts of Poitou ( who were also Dukes of Aquitaine ) soon won it back again . |
| 28 | 2 The photographer who holds the negative . |
| 29 | Area Manager , Paul Stearn saw the opportunity of bringing together contented councillors who had used our services with local authority personnel who held the keys to future business . |
| 30 | Diagnosis and treatment were in the hands of the medical experts who held the franchise on knowledge . |