Example sentences of "[noun] hold [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 He shows that , where there is an interior solution for the amount of bequest or gift across generations , then the Ricardian result holds for small variations in debt .
2 Suppose the result holds for all simpler triples ( P' , Q' , R' ) .
3 Then , using Lemma 3 , we have for general P , Q , R : unc Now because the few elements F of the first set which are not of the form unc are easily proved ( using the laws ) equivalent to ones that are , using the laws , e.g. unc By our assumption that the result holds for finite processes this in turn is equal to unc Since we are in the process of setting up powerful machinery for dealing with finite programs ( for example Theorem 1 ) there are advantages in only having to prove new laws for them .
4 And that , he hopes , will enable him to take over the top ten ratings the Yorkshireman holds with two of the four recognised world governing bodies the WBO and WBC .
5 The second working party , set up by the General Practitioner Board , is also looking at training but within the wider context of what the future holds for small accountancy practices .
6 Thus the international Fisher effect holds in this example .
7 One thing that both types of falsificationist hold in common , however , is that there is an important qualitative difference in the status of confirmations and falsifications .
8 Since the swells were still partially coming over the reef and the wind holding at 15–20 knots , we also set the CQR down once again and streamed out 120ft ( 36m ) of ⅜″ chain : at least it would provide additional weight on the bottom , and should we drag we would hear the chain scraping over the rocks .
9 ( 2 ) Under CA 1985 , s131(1) merger relief ( see para 23.1.5 below ) will be available " … where the issuing company has secured at least a 90 per cent equity holding in another company in pursuance of an arrangement providing for the allotment of equity shares in the issuing company on terms that the consideration for the shares allotted is to be provided ( a ) by the issue or transfer to the issuing company of equity shares in the other company …
10 Advent originally took a 30% equity holding in 1985 to finance the company 's need to buy an IBM mainframe , essential as , until the advent of Universal OLAS , Quality 's offerings ran only on IBM mainframes .
11 Hence we should expect the Andrade equation to hold for small temperature increments only .
12 Under this treaty , a vast area from Calais in the north to Aquitaine in the south was to be ceded to Edward to hold in full sovereignty .
13 Many of the funds held by such institutions come from investments made by ordinary employees , rather than the most wealthy members of society .
14 And they dispute the claim that Kuwait has lost $1 billion in Spain , alleging in their turn that $1.5 billion was spirited back to Kuwait through a network of offshore funds held by Kuwaiti citizens .
15 Zemek was alleged to have used funds held by Polish companies abroad to buy back some of Poland 's commercial debt on the secondary market where it traded at a fraction of face value .
16 Such corruption has played some part in building up the funds held in international bank accounts or other forms of investment by African citizens , recently estimated to total $20 billion between 1974 and 1985 .
17 Some of the delights of the area in the 18th century were the Regattas held from 1781–91 .
18 In 1928 William Robson published Justice and Administrative Law , a landmark text which he later described as an attempt ‘ to dispel the illusion held by all the leading lawyers , politicians , civil servants and academics who had been brought up on Dicey 's Law of the Constitution that in Britain there was no administrative law ’ In this book Robson argued that ‘ no modern student of law or political science has today the slightest doubt that there exists in England a vast body of administrative law ’ and that ‘ the problem is not to discover it but rather to master its widespread ramifications and reduce it to some kind of order and coherence ’ .
19 Some groups of animals found in nature are simple ‘ associations ’ assembled either through overwhelming influences of nature , such as tide-washed plankton on a sandy shore , or through responses to temperature or light held in common by all participants .
20 He also describes attending a ceremony held by Croatian emigres at Bleiburg in 1985 , where he " spoke with many survivors of the event .
21 With primaries or caucuses held in 28 states , the nature of the campaign altered from the close-quarters politics of New Hampshire , to the continental sweep of regional campaigning .
22 While the grievances held by British blacks are undoubtedly profound , in many ways equivalent to those of Northern Ireland 's Catholics , their political objectives are modest by comparison , certainly not extending to the overthrowal of the state .
23 The third principle is that ‘ personal data held for any purpose or purposes shall not be used or disclosed in any manner incompatible with that purpose or purposes ’ .
24 The fourth principle is that ‘ personal data held for any purpose or purposes shall be adequate , relevant and not excessive in relation to that purpose or those purposes ’ — and there is more to this than at first meets the eye .
25 The sixth principle , that ‘ personal data held for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes ’ , follows from its predecessors and places a heavy responsibility on data users to ensure that they regularly weed out data once it has served its purpose .
26 ‘ Personal data held for any purpose or purposes shall not be used or disclosed in any manner incompatible with that purpose or purposes ’
27 This Act aims to make public and thereby to control the use of personal data held on all types of computerised equipment .
28 The current project will involve a detailed audit of the data held on magnetic tapes collected during the first ten years of the children 's lives .
29 ISAM-XA , an X/Open-compliant resource manager for those wishing to access transaction processing monitors from data held in indexed sequential file systems — despite all the noise , relational still accounts for only 10% of data — is held to be the brightest hope for the future .
30 With the right support from application developers and computing staff , the data held in electronic laboratory notebooks would be comprehensive , credible , quality data — created and held on validated computerised systems — with an equally validated migration path and archive system .
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