Example sentences of "[adv] hold [noun] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second option , which naturally held attractions for the RPF parliamentarians , was met with total scorn by de Gaulle . |
| 2 | Leeds University library only held records for the period from 1982 to 1986 . |
| 3 | The Department does not hold figures for the proposed capital expenditure on secondary schools in the borough of Sunderland in 1991-92 . |
| 4 | Hume 's argument , however , does not hold water for the simple reason that it assumes that the question of the possibility of significantly ascribing identity to objects as ontological existents can and should be decided via an analysis of the conditions of their identification , whereas the simple fact is that the concept of an entity as a potential topic of discourse is analytically linked with , and hence inseparable from , that of identity . |
| 5 | On balance Voltaire 's maxim that the poor could have no patrie probably still held sound for the vast majority of Belorussian peasants in early NEP . |
| 6 | The most widely held reason for the decline in Keynesianism was its supposed inability to explain the historically high rates of inflation which occurred in Europe and North America from the late 1960s onwards . |