Example sentences of "[vb mod] hold out [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having realised how crucial START 1 and NPT ratification are to the West , many Ukrainians — 90% , according to the latest opinion polls — believe their country should hold out for financial compensation ; the current price tag , described as covering the costs of dismantling the warheads , is $1 billion . |
| 2 | This is the issue which occupies Anne Phillips , Sylvia Walby and Michèle Barrett in particular , with a certain consensus that , after all , we must hold out for a version of modernism ( against post-modernism ) , and what Phillips calls a ‘ middle route ’ which retains its aspiration to universalism . |
| 3 | Among the speakers who had convinced the Bosnian Serbs that they must hold out against the world was a guest of honour , a painter called Milic Od Macve . |
| 4 | But I doubt he 'll hold out for the money . |
| 5 | ‘ She 'd hold out for a while but it would always be made up after he came back with the roses . |
| 6 | She glanced nervously at the windows , wondering how they 'd hold out against fiercer gusts than those already battering the house . |
| 7 | I debated whether to be sick or not myself , and decided that I could hold out for another half hour . |
| 8 | The main argument from the Corsican was that they could hold out for ever . |
| 9 | They could hold out until spring . |
| 10 | However , National Home Loans said it was ‘ virtually certain' it could hold out against a rise until Christmas . |
| 11 | If everyone who agreed with us wrote to his or her MP , no government could hold out against us ! |
| 12 | This was followed by an interview between the President and Von Papen : and I can not help thinking that , during their conversation together , the former must have assured the latter that , so long as she could hold out against Allied demands , Turkey would abstain from hostile action towards Germany . |
| 13 | The Jags looked as though they would hold out until half time but barely two minutes before the break they conceded a free kick just outside the box . |
| 14 | Do you reckon this snow will hold out until Christmas ? |
| 15 | We can hold out for days . |