Example sentences of "hold together " in BNC.
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| 1 | This passage sheds much light on the method of ‘ Mr. Eliot 's Sunday Morning Service ’ where the self-mutilation of ‘ enervate Origen ’ is placed in the same lineage as the sexual origin of ‘ the Word ’ , and where the initial ‘ sapient sutlers of the Lord ’ who ‘ Drift across the window-panes ’ is a passage with an ambiguous , or better ambivalent , reference , since it holds together in one term both the ‘ sable presbyters ’ who bring offerings to church and ‘ the bees ’ who bring pollen from one part of the plant to another and so perform the ‘ Blest office of the epicene ’ . |
| 2 | Richard Dyer remarks , in relation to Babuscio , that the gay sensibility ‘ holds together qualities that are elsewhere felt as antithetical : theatricality and authenticity … intensity and irony , a fierce assertion of extreme feeling with a deprecating sense of its absurdity ’ ( Heavenly Bodies , 154 ) . |
| 3 | If Ethiopia falls apart , nobody outside will weep for it ; nor , if it holds together , will any outsider pay the vast bill for putting it to rights . |
| 4 | It holds together in tension the reality of Christ in his Church , but the Christ who is real is not only risen but is crucified as well . |
| 5 | Arguably it is this aim which provides the ‘ ideological coherence which holds together the various initiatives and pieces of legislation ’ ( Stoker , 1988 , p. 251 ) introduced by the Conservative governments of the 1980s . |
| 6 | Electrical forces are basic to the system , being attributes of the sub-atomic particles , and it is electrical attraction which holds together the atoms and molecules . |
| 7 | As Graham Greene once created a Greene-land , habitable only by creatures distinctive of his mind , so do novelists since his day seek a setting that holds together , and one that gives character a space to breathe and act in . |
| 8 | In other words it 's a relatively high risk gamble , but if your army holds together you will probably win . |
| 9 | Cut the loaf into about 12 slices , making sure that it still holds together at the base . |
| 10 | By linking different parts of a discourse together and by reducing redundancy , verb-phrase anaphora contributes to the cohesion of the discourse ( that is , the extent to which it flows and holds together ) . |
| 11 | Although there is no rhyme in the poem , the last words in every second line sound very like each other so that , while the poem can be simple enough to be a man 's thoughts , it also holds together well and sounds good . |
| 12 | By contrast , the only federations which hold together are the ones which are culturally homogeneous , or which are marked by a unifying national-cultural ethic , such as Australia or the United States . |
| 13 | This means that it must be capable of forming the weak hydrogen bonds between the two strands which hold together all double-stranded forms of DNA or RNA . |
| 14 | Miraculously , however , the books hold together , with the loss of only a few pages , until the end of the year . |
| 15 | All this leads to swelling and shrinkage of keratin cells , and the bonds that hold together the nail weaken , causing brittleness . |
| 16 | These short square-ended drawing crayons hold together well but give a soft smudgeable line . |
| 17 | His is the priority over everything , and in him all things hold together . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Let us pray that Our Church , which We have built up through Thy Faith and trust , will … hold together … and that … although there are Beings that … ’ |
| 19 | The records of the local authority , and in particular a whole range of core documents , are becoming ever more important as the agents by which we hold together an increasingly diverse and fragmented organisation and culture . |
| 20 | And of course holding together a part like Juliet with long gaps between the performance nights and no real rehearsal in between is difficult to do — that can be rather hairy . |
| 21 | DRAINED by the exercise of inferring what was holding together two pieces of stick inside a cardboard box , a first-year science pupil at Gillingham comprehensive school in north Dorset advanced the opinion that the national curriculum was ‘ just another posh name for different subjects ’ . |
| 22 | Despite all their differences , the Communists are still holding together . |
| 23 | It was Marshall who took the game right away from England , holding together the tail for 62 not out and stretching the total to 399 . |
| 24 | The very year when Mary offered her kingdom to France saw the death of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V , that colossal and most admired figure of the sixteenth century , who had achieved the impossible by holding together an inheritance which sprawled across Europe . |
| 25 | Such bonds are important in holding together two molecules whose surfaces fit accurately into one another . |
| 26 | This represented 1.34 off-farm workers per holding together with 0 . |
| 27 | Love which makes the world go round is no substitute for gelatine when it comes to holding together a lasting peace , for love is the most abused four letter word in the language . |
| 28 | Strega 's Merlin engine was holding together ! |
| 29 | For holding together large frameworks which have been glued up , they are indispensable . |
| 30 | In attempting to maintain a broad political base and in holding together the traditions of moderate evangelical Anglicanism and moderate dissent the Buxton group sought ‘ a Wilberforce station ’ but in changed circumstances . |