Example sentences of "[noun] hold [adj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given that the main impetus behind EMU is the desire of the French to get a seat on the Bundesbank , and given the fact that the Germans hold all the aces , this is hardly surprising . |
| 2 | Those most coveted were the ones with pockets to hold all the valuables salvaged and brought away in fists . |
| 3 | Smiling , Lilith held open the door . |
| 4 | He ended the War holding both the Croix de Guerre and the petainiste decoration , the ‘ francisque ’ . |
| 5 | When the bell sounded and the ghost figures pitched from the huts to form the lines at the Kitchen , he remained , his attention held all the time by the upper strands of wire and the topmost line of the wooden knee . |
| 6 | The party congress in August 1990 amended the party constitution to enable the same person to hold both the post of party chairman and that of President of the Republic , reversing an amendment made in 1985 when Julius Nyerere stepped down as President . |
| 7 | Through marriage in 1252 to the widow of Peter of Geneva , Matilda de Braose , a granddaughter and co-heiress of Walter de Lacy , sixth Baron Lacy [ q.v. ] , he acquired lands in the Welsh marches , at Ewyas Lacy and Ludlow , and in Ireland , where he and his wife held half the county of Meath . |
| 8 | God holds all the cards and wins all the tricks . |
| 9 | ‘ So these damnable people hold all the cards ? ’ |
| 10 | We now consider the concept of balanced growth incidence , where changes in taxation are accompanied by offsetting adjustments in monetary policy to hold constant the capital-labour ratio . |
| 11 | Often , even after insisting that everyone goes back to the launch point , there will be barely enough people to hold all the gliders down , turn them around and re-park them if the wind changes . |
| 12 | However , it is clearly impossible for each library to hold all the publications that you could conceivably require . |
| 13 | The church may however avoid tax by a relatively straightforward — and well tried — method , which involves establishing a trading company ( Tradeco ) in which the church holds all the issued share capital . |
| 14 | History will deliver a harsh judgment on the politicians and warlords who are fermenting this chaos but I doubt if there are enough prison cells in Europe to hold all the war criminals . |
| 15 | I liked to hear the verse , and enjoyed declaiming it , but only if there was no one to hear me , for I knew that my voice held all the fine cadences of Sir Tom himself . |
| 16 | Your side plate holds all the lessons . |
| 17 | Because she had spent much of that day watching her mother supervise preparations for the traditional Gio ceremony observed by the family on each anniversary of her great-grandfather 's death , Lan knew the altar held all the favourite foods and beverages that the high-ranking courtier had enjoyed during his lifetime . |
| 18 | The Tax and National Insurance Screens hold all the tax and National Insurance details used in the calculation of the payroll . |
| 19 | There is the difficulty of finding a big enough storage medium to hold all the required data and there is the problem of retrieving large volumes of data from the storage medium fast enough to update the screen for moving information . |
| 20 | Thus it is that the extraction of the origin of the first fragment of ‘ goodness ’ and the indelibly labelling of it as such , led to the creation of an entity with a presumed existence and endowed by mankind with the power to hold inviolate the human decisions on ‘ goodness ’ — which will continue to be taken for as long as life continues . |
| 21 | In the Senate , meanwhile , the Democrats held all the seats in the South in 1960 but only 68 per cent by 1972 . |