Example sentences of "[noun pl] hold [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Education : Zoo trips hold on to their place in the management plan |
| 2 | Parties hold on to status quo |
| 3 | Feeling the pinch : chief executive Jane Tozer ( left ) and marketing manager Jill Warren ( right ) expect potential clients to hold off for some time . |
| 4 | Dolphins that feed mainly on squid usually have fewer teeth and have developed other adaptations to hold on to their slippery-bodied meals . |
| 5 | The time was in fact ripe , not only for a secession from religion ( which , after all , had never given parents anything very tangible ) , but for a transfer of allegiance from the other traditional reference groups of parents : away from the methods prescribed by folklore , custom and the baby 's grandmother , and towards the new blessings held out by scientific mothercraft . |
| 6 | The wheels were carried on as cast stands held down by bolts 8 feet long to a plate set in concrete . |
| 7 | Byas held on to his third catch in the slips to gain Carrick the wicket of Harvey Trump , and after Robinson had returned to account for Andrew Cottam , Carrick rounded off the innings by getting the stubborn Andrew Caddick caught at extra cover for 37 . |
| 8 | Only a last remnant of Bakufu supporters held out on Hokkaido through to 1869 . |
| 9 | The longer that socialist parties held on to the old orthodoxies , the worse they have suffered . |
| 10 | When families like those in the novels of Ivy Compton-Burnett hold on to their houses at all costs , it is only to discover that their houses hold on to them . |
| 11 | There will undoubtedly be more battles like this in the coming years , whether or not the Conservatives hold on to power . |
| 12 | The Fish got us a good position at the back of the club , where we stood on wooden beer crates holding on to each other as the floor seemed about to crack open with heat and stomping . |
| 13 | The Communists held back from such attempts to draw the Liberal Party into a People 's Front . |
| 14 | And the long-suffering elder , which always looks beautiful , graceful , however much you cut it , with its lacy plates held out to the sun . |
| 15 | Clean white half-moons of nails held out for inspection , hands reddened from hot water and soap , hair brushed . |
| 16 | Supported by Milan missile firing posts from the battlegroup 's anti-tank platoon , and fire from the mortar platoon and the artillery , the companies held out against probing attacks by enemy reconnaissance patrols of armoured vehicles and tanks . |
| 17 | Her call came after the surrender of the last group of rebels holding out at a military air base at Mactan in the central Philippines . |
| 18 | Lie flat on the bench with the dumb-bells held out above your chest . |
| 19 | He had heavy army trousers held up with a huge leather belt and a thick army shirt . |
| 20 | What happened in the 1980S was that , with the partial exceptions of Britain and Japan , nearly all governments held on to monopoly state control of the telephone network and also largely stuck to their traditional club of equipment suppliers ; consequently AT&T had little foreign success in its chosen strengths of network provision and major equipment items . |
| 21 | It was as if I were surrounded by snarling dogs held back by chains . |
| 22 | Her skirt was split to reveal black stockings held up by suspenders . |
| 23 | How could I be , there ai n't no fertility cords holding on to the fanny . |
| 24 | Starfield and Mellits ( 1968 ) were successful in teaching 5-year-olds to hold on to their urine for as long as possible once a day for six months and enabled one-third of the children to become dry . |
| 25 | The ministers amended the terms of the ASEAN industrial joint-venture ( AIJV ) plan to include allowing non-ASEAN investors to hold up to 60 per cent of equity . |
| 26 | This would not involve disclosure of persons held out to be partners : if a party litigating against a firm is unaware of the identity of persons held out as partners , he can not by definition have acted in reliance upon the holding out , so liability under s14 of the Partnership Act can not arise . |
| 27 | This would not involve disclosure of persons held out to be partners : if a party litigating against a firm is unaware of the identity of persons held out as partners , he can not by definition have acted in reliance upon the holding out , so liability under s14 of the Partnership Act can not arise . |
| 28 | Our businesses held up in Scotland and the North of England with legal completions of 2439 , only seven per cent down from 1991 . |
| 29 | The khthons held on to their prisoners . |
| 30 | However there seems to be little of worth in the other characters to hold up against Thersites 's world view . |