Example sentences of "[adj] hold [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The data from Study 2 for the 60 films was compared with the new ratings to see whether this holds for the full set of 60 films . |
| 2 | did before or after the events we are told of in the tales , and this holds for the great majority of the fabliaux . |
| 3 | Scouts from Notts , Lincs , Derbys and Leics have smashed the world record for a canoe raft of 376 held by the People 's Youth Movement of Singapore last year . |
| 4 | Before it , the talk in the High Court corridors was that Meehan would be acquitted for lack of evidence , but it was a view that few held by the time it was finished . |
| 5 | France 's League of Nations mandate extended across Syria and Lebanon , just as the British mandate encompassed Palestine , Transjordan and Iraq — with all the consequences this held for the future . |
| 6 | So what does 1991 hold for the man who has survived several years of mental agony and still found the strength to come smiling through ? |
| 7 | Johnson rejected the proposal for the elections , which in any case were clearly impossible to hold within the time proposed . |
| 8 | Further details were provided at a press conference on Aug. 21 held by the Russian Federation State Committee for the Management of State Property , the body managing the privatization scheme . |
| 9 | The magnificent sculpture collections of the 19C are all held in the Castle of Zbraslav ( see p.181 ) . |
| 10 | They were all held in the grand hall . |
| 11 | A variety of opinions was expressed in Committee , and at the end of our debates some of the opinions were slightly different from those held at the start of our Committee proceedings . |
| 12 | Teaching and lecturing staff rarely have the time needed to identify , obtain , understand and analyse complex datasets such as those held on the Data Archive . |
| 13 | I trust that Mr. Shelford 's comments are not those held by the staff of RW&P or in future issues can we look forward to ‘ Wayne 's Top 10 maiming tips for mini 's ’ or ‘ Eye gouging and ear biting for beginners ’ . |
| 14 | This imposes a very onerous obligation on the defenders ' agents and their insurers because the list must cover not only those documents in the hands of the solicitor or the insurer , but also those held by the insured . |
| 15 | Partial offers are not very common in the UK because where the offer is for 30 per cent or more of the voting rights it can only succeed if shareholders holding over 50 per cent of the voting rights of the target company ( excluding those held by the offeror and its concert parties ) vote in favour of the offer ( Rule 36.5 ) . |
| 16 | ‘ Counter cultures ’ are groups of people within society whose values and norms are different from and go against those held in the wider society . |
| 17 | The Queen of Beauty appears in image ; she may be glimpsed in a portrait , a miniature held in the hand of a knight or warrior as he rides off to battle ; she may appear on film or television screen and be adored by millions . |
| 18 | 36 held in the new Battle of Waterloo |
| 19 | has held just about every office it is possible to hold in the Labour Party . |
| 20 | It shines , on a silvered copper plate , which is solid to hold in the hand — but the image is evanescent , even when the plate is tilted to just the correct angle to the eye ( like looking at a hologram today ) and the street becomes magically present in all the exorbitant detail that the Daguerreotype possessed . |
| 21 | Amongst them is quaint Braemar , home of the famous Highland games , first held in the 10th century … friendly Ballater , where many of the local shops proudly display the Royal Warrant … and of course the Royal fairy-tale castle of BALMORAL , nestling in the lush pine forests of the Dee Valley which is open May , June and July . |
| 22 | With a full house of 185 at last Tuesday 's event in Edinburgh University , part-funded by Lothian and Edinburgh Enterprise , it is arguably the first held by the IoD , that predominantly male organisation , where the overwhelming majority was female . |
| 23 | In 14th century it was split into two portions , one held by the Carents , the other by the Talbots of Godlingston . |
| 24 | From the Catalogue of a Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Basil Rocke 1904 — 1966 held at the Harrogate Art Gallery , April 29th — May 21st , 1976 |
| 25 | Some schools may come to consider that the hard sell offers the only feasible way of gaining a firm position in the ‘ market-place ’ , because it would be naïve to hold to the unrealistic idea that most schools can respond to the new spirit of competition by quickly raising standards to improve their school 's popularity . |
| 26 | At the Dissolution of the Monasteries , Nostell Priory was granted to Dr Leigh and the fair held by the canons at their church at Woodkirk , otherwise known as West Ardsley , became known as Lee Gap Fair . |
| 27 | Civic design was as much concerned with the spaces between buildings as with the appearance of the buildings themselves , and the same held for the design of residential areas . |
| 28 | Half the men were already straggling back into the Residency building or into the hospital in order to form a new position while the remainder did their best to hold off the sepoys who were already swarming over the ramparts . |
| 29 | The pro-Iranian Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine released United States hostage Jesse Turner to Syrian security officers in Beirut on Oct. 21 , after the freeing of one Arab prisoner from Israel and of 14 held by the Israeli-backed South Lebanese Army ( SLA ) from the al-Khiam prison in the southern Lebanon " security zone " . |
| 30 | Would you prefer one QT Day in London and the other two held in the Home Counties ? |