Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] hold the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was staring at the coffin , the wooden box with fancy trimmings which held the mortal remains of Edwin Garland , her uncle and employer . |
| 2 | In a situation of panic , in an army , for example , there is a loss of the libidinal ties which hold the group together , and people behave in ways which take no account of the group : it is each man for himself ; orders are ignored . |
| 3 | From psychoanalysis , aesthetics and obstetrics to housework , children 's games , munitions factories and pinball machines , images which hold the screen for an instant are woven into a rich critique of production line society ’ . |
| 4 | Under the wide distribution of in-service funding , decisions will be local about which courses should be organized and sought from other people ( from local authority advisers , educational consultants or higher education ) and which courses the teachers of the school or group of schools which holds the purse-strings should be asked or encouraged to attend . |
| 5 | Even though there was a serious risk that its reaction with the hot burning metal would cause a hydrogen explosion , thousands of gallons of water at the highest pressure possible were pumped through the channels which held the burning fuel . |
| 6 | This small group needs the authority to make decisions on behalf of organizations who hold the purse-strings and therefore must be made up of individuals who are trusted and respected within their own organizations . |
| 7 | Nawa Shariff lost the election and he 's lost the battle for the independence and members of minority parties who hold the balance of power . |
| 8 | But it 's ultimately the city which will make the final decision ; the big institutions which hold the majority of Dowty shares . |
| 9 | But since her captivity , a babel seethed around her constantly , the cries and demands of Sycorax , the commands of the men on guard over her , the hammering and planing of the pales for the stockade and for the settlers ' other plans ; the shouts of the men from the boat-building on the beach , the barking of orders to bondsmen brought from England on the ship that had returned , the yells of slaves whom they had loaded in Dahomey or Yoruba on the journey back , and roped and chained and put to work under the whip , and the bellowing laughter now and then of the overseer , a tall African who had been taken out of chains himself to hold the lash over his fellows . |
| 10 | Government in the New Style consists in gambling with the interests of the nation to propitiate the various mutinous factions which hold the balance in the House of Commons . " |
| 11 | It pays to drill holes in the battens , for the nails which hold the panel to the posts , to avoid splitting . |
| 12 | One complaint , which often occurred , was that it is the blacks who hold the real prejudices . |
| 13 | Area Manager , Paul Stearn saw the opportunity of bringing together contented councillors who had used our services with local authority personnel who held the keys to future business . |
| 14 | Diagnosis and treatment were in the hands of the medical experts who held the franchise on knowledge . |
| 15 | He was forced to resign , however , when the three independents who held the balance of power in the state legislature threatened to join the ALP opposition in a vote of no confidence against him . |
| 16 | The buildings which hold the inmates are simply referred to by letters and numbers . |
| 17 | The banks who held the great majority of private accounts were divided by Joslin into two groups . |
| 18 | I think it 's those kind of things which holds the partnerships together , and keep everybody good . |
| 19 | A glance at the careers of nine of the ten Muftis who held the office between 988/1580 and 1031/1622 and whose teaching careers fall in the latter half of the sixteenth century , after the building of the Suleymaniye medreses , will give an idea of the teaching background apparently considered essential to give one a chance of eventual appointment to what had by then become the highest learned office : all nine men taught at the Sahn and subsequently at one of the 60-akce medreses built prior to the building of the Suleymaniye medreses , for example , the Sehzade medrese ; two of the nine then went directly to their first mevleviyet ( early on in the period , in 1566 and 1573 ) , while six taught at one of the Suleymaniye medreses and one at the medrese of the mother of Murad III in Uskudar ( the Atik Valide medrese ) , newer than Suleyman 's medreses , before being appointed to their first mevleviyet . |
| 20 | We must form what we do into logically developed emotive communications which hold the listener and then decline . |
| 21 | Also appreciated were the two clamps which held the work in place . |
| 22 | The window runners are replaced by finding the screws which hold the channel down and unscrewing them . |
| 23 | Bob was taken round the various barns which held the winter fodder and together he and George rode the most advantageous trails , which would get the ewes down from the heights most speedily . |
| 24 | The cohesion of the relationship between trade unions and the Labour Party — seeking to explain those forces which hold the relationship together and those which move it apart . |
| 25 | A COMPUTER hacker caused ‘ considerable disruption ’ after keying into a vital database at one of Britain 's newspapers which held the FTSE 100 share index , a court heard yesterday . |
| 26 | Getting at the nuts which hold the taps in place under baths ( or basins ) is often awkward . |
| 27 | While there was a continuing interest in ‘ technical ’ instruction ( though the term itself was both confused and confusing ) , it was the concept of a very generalized ‘ continued ’ education for adolescents which held the centre stage of the education debate during the Edwardian period and , together with the raising of the school-leaving age , throughout the First World War . |
| 28 | The Sobell pavilions were a number of wire enclosures designed to seem as open as possible , linked to glass-walled brick chambers which held the zoo 's collection of apes and monkeys . |
| 29 | One of the officials with whom I had dealings was John Hampden , who years later was to become a colleague ; but although he did his best to be co-operative , it was the men who held the purse-strings that counted , and , going between the MOI and Faber 's , I could not extract from officialdom any commitment and Eliot naturally needed certain specific undertakings regarding finance before Faber 's could think of commissioning a book , which also needed the Ministry 's imprimatur . |
| 30 | Isambard made a motion of his hand to the men who held the boy pinned by the arms , and he was half-dragged , half-carried between them to the rack . |