Example sentences of "[be] hold [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | she might be holding still for me to hear : |
| 2 | After the fourth session of the Hague peace conference on Sept. 26 , attended by the Foreign Ministers of all the republics , Lord Carrington said that the ceasefire seemed to be holding sufficiently for the conference to carry on and to accelerate its work . |
| 3 | The second principle simply says that ‘ personal data shall be held only for one or more specified and lawful purposes ’ . |
| 4 | A hall in the Andersonian University was procured , and meetings were held there for a number of years , with periods spent in Balfour 's School , North Portland Street ( 1848–1850 ) , the Young Men 's Christian Association , North Frederick Street ( 1857–8 ) . |
| 5 | Other Scottish towns anxious to follow Airdrie 's pioneering success are Kilmarnock , Stirling and Falkirk , which have studied the scheme , and a meeting prompted by Ettrick and Lauderdale council is being held today for interested business people in the Borders . |
| 6 | They seem unskilled in the simple acts that console women when they are distressed — like being held gently for as long as they need to be held , making murmuring noises rather than using words ( or even worse , forming sentences ) , wiping tears away and blowing noses … in other words giving the same comfort which you would give to a child . |
| 7 | In ( c ) , it is held mainly for its role as a store of wealth . |
| 8 | According to the quantity theory , money is held only for the purpose of making payments for current transactions . |
| 9 | The holiday camps are held separately for the different sexes , mirroring the gender segregation that occurs in the majority of Northern Ireland 's schools , but another form of segregation in schooling which is not reproduced is that of religion , for the few Catholic schools that exist in the Easton area nominate participants . |
| 10 | It 's part of the biggest event of it 's kind to be staged in Britain , and it 's been held especially for handicapped and underprivileged youngsters . |
| 11 | The festival was held outdoors for the first eighty years , but moved indoors after torrential rain caused the collapse of the stage as the congregation were singing The Heavens are Telling ! |