Example sentences of "was to hold " in BNC.
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| 1 | Australian Mutual received approval from the Department of Trade and Industry which it needed if it was to hold more than 15 per cent of Pearl 's shares , the level at which a shareholder is regarded as ‘ controlling ’ an insurance company . |
| 2 | The Thatcher administration was still new to the power it was to hold for the rest of the decade and a reader might reasonably expect to find something seminal in the report . |
| 3 | He was giving her orders : she was to hold on to the edge of the pool and breathe deeply in and out . |
| 4 | The number of foresters was to be limited under the supervision of the regarders : no warden or local Forest officer was to hold pleas of the forest , which were reserved for the Forest Eyre . |
| 5 | Their job was to hold on as long as they could against impossible odds , so as to give the rest of the army time to concentrate in a hammer-blow at the enemy centre . |
| 6 | It was , however , as we have seen , one of the great issues of the seventeenth century whether the Crown or Parliament was to hold the dominant sway under the English constitution , and it was in this context that Parliaments of England declared themselves to be ‘ sovereign ’ . |
| 7 | It was to hold 26 cars . |
| 8 | The essence of doublethink was to hold absolutely to the given motive but also simultaneously to its contradiction : that is after all what dialectical thinking is all about . |
| 9 | Someone was to hold up the traffic , another to get the guards , but first someone was sent down the side lane towards St Vincent 's Hospital to alert casualty and summon help . |
| 10 | The first priority , it was agreed , was to hold the fords strongly , not only the two nearby but others some way up Tweed , to prevent their flank being turned . |
| 11 | Clothing was the principal function of textiles , just as the principal function of buckles , sleeve-fasteners , pins and brooches was to hold the clothing together . |
| 12 | Downing Street insisted it was simply due to ‘ pressure of work ’ but admitted he was to hold crisis talks on the economy and spending cuts . |
| 13 | The infirmary was to hold 38 in-patients , and the subscribers were recommended to accept the plan . |
| 14 | This was an idea she was to hold on to throughout the process . |
| 15 | Sir John Wolfenden , the then vice-chancellor of Reading University , was chosen to be its Chairman , a job which he was to hold for the three years that the Committee took to produce its Report . |
| 16 | For Edward , the solution was to hold Aquitaine in full sovereignty ; but the French would concede this only in the face of overwhelming defeat , and no settlement based on such a concession could endure . |
| 17 | He was to hold an enlarged Aquitaine in full sovereignty , together with Calais , Ponthieu and Guînes ; but there was no question , of transferring the rest of western France to him , and Ring John 's ransom was reduced from 4 to 3 million écus . |
| 18 | Raymond-Guillaume was to hold the salle ( hall with living quarters ) while Guillaume held the tower . |
| 19 | The Lycée was to hold this self-determined spirit for only two years then he was taken on by Balmain , at that time one of the grandest of French designers . |
| 20 | From now on , the twin claws of the pincer that was to hold the development of penal policy fast in its grip were the remorseless increase in the incidence of crime , and the overcrowding in the prisons . |
| 21 | In his planned county palatine Gloucester was to hold in fee simple , in Cumberland the grants were to him and the heirs male of his body . |
| 22 | Yet these ground rules helped identify how the state ( and , later , from 1982 , regulatory bodies ( was to hold the ring between various professional and economic interests in the broadcasting , and indeed audiovisual , sectors . |
| 23 | No Norman baron was to hold a court of his own that Christmas ; they would all celebrate with the King . |
| 24 | Our final tactic was to hold our own communities ' conference to engage the support of active tenants groups and at the end of the day , they were the real winners . |
| 25 | … Now , in this case , it was agreed , that the defendant should quit at Candlemas ; and though the agreement is void as to the number of years for which the defendant was to hold , if the lessor chooses to determine the tenancy before the expiration of the seven years , he can only put an end to it at Candlemas . |
| 26 | He was to hold this position for twenty-nine years , combining it with the Treasurership from 1923 until his retirement in 1935 . |
| 27 | A year later he became the general secretary , a position he was to hold until 1871 . |
| 28 | He was to hold this position for the next thirty-one years and must therefore be regarded as a founding father of the organization which later became known as MI5 . |
| 29 | In 1823 he was appointed curator of the museum of the Bristol Institution , a post he was to hold until his death . |
| 30 | She was n't what you might call strict either , but she knew it would n't be right , that their last chance was to hold on until they were married , so that , however mean and poor it was , their marriage would have that at least to make it special . |