Example sentences of "[adv] hold for the " in BNC.

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1 The first of these , which formed part of Gloucester 's original endowment , was the manor of Kingston Lacy in Dorset , which he apparently held for the rest of the reign .
2 The first of these , which formed part of Gloucester 's original endowment , was the manor of Kingston Lacy in Dorset , which he apparently held for the rest of the reign .
3 Arnold Toynbee once argued that it is the ‘ barbaric ’ vital periphery that finally topples a declining civilization , but this maxim does not hold for the Russian Revolution .
4 The recording quality for standard 8mm is at least equal to VHS , and the comparison also holds for the two competing super-formats of Hi8 and S-VHS .
5 Simultaneously elections were also held for the Czech and Slovak National Councils , which had 200 and 150 seats respectively .
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