Example sentences of "[verb] hold for [art] " in BNC.

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1 TRADE : The gradual improvement in trade has held for the first four months of 1993 according to the Builders Merchants Federation .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 Experimentally ( Fig. 3 b ) , this latter prediction was found to hold for NO ( 5-fold less ) and ClO ( 3-fold less ; SCN - was not tested ) .
5 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 .
6 SAN SALVADOR ( Reuter ) — One of two occupations of embassies in San Salvador ended when human rights activists freed 13 hostages they had held for a day at the Costa Rican Embassy and left .
7 There had been a bitter dispute in the college ever since a group of young fellows returning after the war had voted many of the old fellows out of the college offices they had held for a long time .
8 It turns out that the Heston Club team has lost a title that it had held for the past few years .
9 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 .
10 William was employed in the Maintenance Department on General Service Duties , a position he had held for the past two years .
11 He was ordered held for a bail hearing on Tuesday .
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