Example sentences of "[noun] hold [adj] for the " in BNC.

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1 What held good for Stoke Poges held good for the Western Isles ; Kathleen Raine has given us a description , worthy of Thomas Gray , of the burial of an old Scotswoman :
2 I watched him jog off , the head held high for the first twenty yards , to promote oxygenation , then tucked in low as he measured out the rhythm of his pace .
3 Under this , the EPA is responsible for cleaning up the most contaminated sites and then recovering the cost from the bodies held responsible for the contamination .
4 This distinction of style holds good for the whole of Greek art … "
5 This lack of significant difference between the proportions of RP cases and controls held true for the other histological categories as well , including even patients with definite Crohn 's disease ( Group E ) ( RP 13% , control 17% ) .
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