Example sentences of "[noun] hold the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now Linford Christie holds the rare chance of a second gold — first in the 200 metres but , more promisingly , by beating the United States next Saturday evening in the 100-metres relay . |
| 2 | The Glenpatrick Golf Club holds the main golfing event of the year , or one that generates the most obvious competition , and that is the ‘ Buchanan Trophy ’ , the inter-company match . |
| 3 | The cashier holds the other key and the safe deposit box can only be opened if both locks are operated at the same time . |
| 4 | You report that the Hindus of Kashmir hold the top government jobs in Kashmir . |
| 5 | Daphne studied the menu a new one , a friendly dinosaur snaked down the side holding the printed menu between its paws . |
| 6 | The attempt to hold the annual procession on the feast-day itself , 1 September , with a substitute statue borrowed for the occasion from the Greyfriars , produced a riot ; ‘ the Grey Friars gaped , the Black Friars blew , the priests panted and fled ’ — and the Greyfriars lost their statue , its head shattered on an Edinburgh causeway . |
| 7 | Just when we expected to see Cordoba produce an extra gear as Walter Swinburn got to work with the whip , the son of El Gran Senor capitulated and it was Balla Cove who produced extra reserves to hold the late thrust of Rock City . |
| 8 | Madame Gautier held the small silver tray of chocolates out for Ellie , who unable to resist , got up and helped herself to another one . |
| 9 | " But first , ladies and gentlemen , you should know that Dr McNab holds the discredited belief that you catch cholera by drinking … more precisely , that in cholera the morbific matter is taken into the alimentary canal causing diarrhoea , that the poison is at the same time reproduced in the intestines and passes out with the discharges , and that by these so-called " rice-water " discharges becoming mingled with the drinking water of others the disease is communicated from one person to another continually multiplying itself as it goes . |
| 10 | As Sir Christopher holds the front page … |
| 11 | This expresses the willingness of buyers of bills to hold the existing stock . |
| 12 | The remaining leadership represented a modified nationalism in which new middle-class moderates held the upper hand . |
| 13 | The first policeman on the scene held the injured man before an ambulance came . |
| 14 | The planners held the conventional view that textiles was an attractive industry , because it was labour-intensive and could compete on world markets by virtue of low local wages . |
| 15 | It is sometimes said that whoever keeps the minutes of a meeting holds the real power and in negotiating situations there is much truth in this . |
| 16 | A product of Campion School , Essex , the wing holds the remarkable record of having scored tries for England at Under-18 , colts and Under-21 level . |
| 17 | There 's an eighteen inch split in the inner tube and , ’ he paused , ‘ you 're not going to like this , the bolts holding the split rim have all sheared . |
| 18 | Somehow she found the courage to hold the gleaming brilliance of his gaze with her own , as if by this encounter of eyes she could mesmerise , draw him to her . |
| 19 | On June 13-14 this group held the founding congress of a new Christian Democratic Forum ( FChD ) , electing Olszewski as honorary chairman of the new movement . |
| 20 | Most observers held the poor performance of the National Party , the junior partner in the country 's conservative opposition coalition , to be the chief reason for the defeat of the coalition . |
| 21 | FROM memories of a journey through Alresford in the 1920s to a paper on Rasputin , the stories told by members at Alresford Historical and Literary Society 's annual manuscript evening held the large audience 's attention with their detail and variety . |
| 22 | For more than thirty-seven years held the important situation of teacher to the first public institution in this country for the education of the deaf and dumb ; which was established in this parish , A.D. 1792 … |
| 23 | He grips the washbasin , leans forward on locked arms , and scans the square face , pale under a forelock of lank brown hair , flecked with grey , the two vertical furrows in the brow like a clip holding the blunt nose in place , the straight-ruled line of the mouth , the squared-off jaw . |
| 24 | In pathitem , cited.text.id holds the symbolic key of the current record after the command held in command has been both executed and successful . |
| 25 | This chapter deals principally with the situation where the husband and the wife hold the matrimonial home in their joint names ( whether as beneficial joint tenants or as tenants in common ) and , as a result of property adjustments , the husband 's interest in the home is conveyed or transferred to the wife 's new husband or friend . |
| 26 | If the mortgage is a mortgage of the equitable estate , the priority of successive mortgagees depends upon the order in which they give written notice to the trustees or other persons holding the legal estate . |
| 27 | While she queued for coffee , her friend held the handicapped child and Jean ‘ made believe she was n't mine . ’ |
| 28 | Along with many of his contemporaries , Mercator held the Baconian belief that knowledge should be exploited for utilitarian ends . |
| 29 | * the mystery of the Church , in which the Virgin Mary holds the pre-eminent place . |
| 30 | knowingly or has reasonable cause to believe that the insider holds the relevant information by virtue of being ‘ connected with the company ’ and |