Example sentences of "[verb] hold [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charles 's cavalry rallied to hold off the 500 enemy horse which broke through into the rear of his lines and formed a protective corridor down which he , and those of his men still able to fight , slowly withdrew , fiercely resisting . |
| 2 | In the case of expressions output on channels or assigned to variables this expression only needs to hold in the context of the strongest enclosing boolean . |
| 3 | Behind the scrum — where Ian Hunter will have to prove he is fully recovered after a spate of leg injuries — Rob Andrew , as suspected , has held off the late challenge of Ellwood , though coach Ian McGeechan will certainly want him to do more to compromise the enemy back row . |
| 4 | For the first 11 of those paddling years he never heard of the BCU and it was only through his activities with the Air Training Corps and their involvement with the Devizes to Westminster Race that he got drawn into the position of race Publicity Officer which he has held since the late 70s . |
| 5 | Each one has held to the view that the Common Market was flawed from its inception , that its membership was not in Britain 's interest , that with respect to trade , immigration policy , defence and foreign policy , her true interests were best upheld as an independent nation trading on the high seas . |
| 6 | TRADE : The gradual improvement in trade has held for the first four months of 1993 according to the Builders Merchants Federation . |
| 7 | Not only is the seat he has held for the past 15 years , in the Yvelines to the west of Paris , now under serious threat , but so too is the whole political future and his dream of a new social democratic movement . |
| 8 | In England and Wales the relationship has held throughout the 20th century , and has been particularly strong in the last twenty years … . |
| 9 | He held office for twenty-seven years and became one of the most renowned figures who have ever served the BDDA , because of his devotion to the cause of deafness and the dominating position he came to hold in the deaf world . |
| 10 | Churchill , while being ‘ too much a man ’ to kick the PM on the ground , had agreed to send a letter to Downing Street demanding to know by midday on Sunday the exact position he could expect to hold in the government . |
| 11 | It was decided at the Brdo kod Kranja meeting to hold by the end of May a separate referendum in each republic except Slovenia , which had already voted overwhelmingly for independence in a referendum in December 1990 [ see p. 37924 ] . |
| 12 | Right , for the next item members will need to note the statements from the joint trade unions liaison committee and the non-domestic rate-payers group and to find item twenty-one two today 's papers , the minutes of the budget review sub-committee , meeting held on the eighteenth of January , agenda item twenty-two brackets one . |
| 13 | Many years ago , at a race relations meeting held in the church hall of a Black church in the American South , I saw a striking picture of the head and shoulders of a Black man on the cross , simply called ‘ Black Christ ’ . |
| 14 | And of all fighters Hotspur could remember holding at the end of his own sword , this was the bonniest . |
| 15 | If what ( 102 ) entailed was : ( 104 ) You are Napoleon and you are socially superior to ( or socially distant from ) me , the speaker Then ( 105 ) would have to have one reading under which it meant ( 106 ) , which it clearly does not have : ( 105 ) Vous n'etes pas Napoleon ( 106 ) You are Napoleon , and you are not socially superior to ( or socially distant from ) me , the speaker Exactly the same , and additional , arguments can be shown to hold for the complex honorifics of " exotic " languages . |
| 16 | The suggestion I 've had is that we have got held in the budgets erm land acquisition , I mean it may be that we actually pool this the , the new land acquisition after the centenary , which might be erm a way of recognizing the centenary of the , of the parish council . |
| 17 | Many of the results which are found to hold in the more familiar game theoretic environment will generalize to such a framework . |
| 18 | In an earlier paper ( 1977 ) Robarchek argues that Schachter 's frustration — aggression theory can be found to hold among the Semai when we examine one of their rules , punan , whereby any kind of ‘ frustration ’ ( I call it ‘ unfulfilled desire ’ as found in the rule punen among the Chewong ) must never be allowed to persist . |
| 19 | The frugivores seem to have wider ‘ niches ’ in rain forests than elsewhere , but the converse theory that the habitat lends itself to finer division into niches seems to hold for the carnivores . |
| 20 | The decline of the West Indian sugar economy , and the near-complete ability of the US cotton economy to supply its own black labour through the reproduction of its gender-balanced slave population , lessened the vested interest which might otherwise have held off the evangelical/humanitarian reformers rather longer . |
| 21 | ( Recall Keynes 's retention of the ‘ real wage equals marginal product ’ principle , so that only the first marginal condition failed to hold in the General Theory model . ) |
| 22 | It 's no coincidence that malaria took hold as the gold rush intensified . |
| 23 | Three thousand members of the Sealed Knot have been re-staging the civil war battle in which the city managed to hold off the royalist seige for twenty six days . |
| 24 | A school record on a child may have to be disclosed as may any other record held by the school or authority . |
| 25 | He never really reached top form last night , but had enough fight to hold off the mentally tough , but physically drained Hlasek . |
| 26 | The speaker who uses it feels himself or herself to be stating , with an explicitness not found in the merely qualifying adjective , even when it is ascriptive , that the property expressed does hold of the entity identified by the whole noun phrase ; an inevitable concomitant is that the postnominal adjective must be to a certain extent salient in the situation where it is used . |
| 27 | It turns out that the Heston Club team has lost a title that it had held for the past few years . |
| 28 | The post of Vice-President , which Cotti had held for the past year , was taken by René Felber ( Social Democratic Party — SPS ) , Minister for Political ( Foreign ) Affairs . |
| 29 | William was employed in the Maintenance Department on General Service Duties , a position he had held for the past two years . |
| 30 | The National Democratic Party ( NDP ) , a DLP splinter group formed in February 1989 by former Finance Minister Richie Haynes , failed to retain any of the four seats which it had held at the dissolution . |