Example sentences of "[adv] hold [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | This type of contravention of the offence will be gradually phased out by the new ‘ life ’ licences , although such offences could be committed by 70 year olds , provisional licence holders on expiry of such a licence and people suffering from certain disabilities who can only hold licences for restricted periods . |
| 2 | The second option , which naturally held attractions for the RPF parliamentarians , was met with total scorn by de Gaulle . |
| 3 | Leeds University library only held records for the period from 1982 to 1986 . |
| 4 | The company plans to make around 100 Evantes next year and is already holding deposits for 18 cars . |
| 5 | It was also admitted by both defendants that they do not hold licences for any of the four dogs ’ . |
| 6 | The Department does not hold figures for the proposed capital expenditure on secondary schools in the borough of Sunderland in 1991-92 . |
| 7 | Hume 's argument , however , does not hold water for the simple reason that it assumes that the question of the possibility of significantly ascribing identity to objects as ontological existents can and should be decided via an analysis of the conditions of their identification , whereas the simple fact is that the concept of an entity as a potential topic of discourse is analytically linked with , and hence inseparable from , that of identity . |
| 8 | But there is one theory which will not hold water for a moment ; and that is , that we were sent here to maintain the present Government in office . |
| 9 | ( b ) a shareholder may not hold shares for others save as nominee for another solicitor with a practising certificate or an RFL or recognised body who is a shareholder or officer of the recognised body or who is working in its practice ; a shareholder may not create any charge or other third party interest over his shares . |
| 10 | On balance Voltaire 's maxim that the poor could have no patrie probably still held sound for the vast majority of Belorussian peasants in early NEP . |
| 11 | Mr. Gow : While recognising the undoubted right of all members of the General Synod to deeply held views for or against the policies of the present Government , would it be helpful if my right Hon. Friend were to point out to the General Synod that its reputation would be enhanced if its members , when in Synod , devoted more time to matters spiritual than to matter political ? |
| 12 | During the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries the verderers , regarders and agisters usually held office for life , provided that they discharged their duties faithfully and well , but in the fifteenth century the authority of the verderer , like that of the coroner , was brought to an end by the death of the king , and the sheriffs were ordered to hold new elections . |
| 13 | The place always held affection for him . |
| 14 | Other forms of plastics also hold hazards for small cetaceans . |
| 15 | Schools should also hold meetings for prospective parents . |
| 16 | It also gave life back to rivers that had n't held water for many years like the River Pang on the Berkshire Downs . |
| 17 | In clay and heavy soils the risk is increased that the hole will then hold water for considerable periods , with the plant and stake actually standing in water . |
| 18 | I read The Second Sex and A Room of One 's Own at the same age , and thought of myself as a feminist , although this had to remain a privately held conviction for several years more . |
| 19 | The most widely held reason for the decline in Keynesianism was its supposed inability to explain the historically high rates of inflation which occurred in Europe and North America from the late 1960s onwards . |