Example sentences of "[verb] hold [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charles 's cavalry rallied to hold off the 500 enemy horse which broke through into the rear of his lines and formed a protective corridor down which he , and those of his men still able to fight , slowly withdrew , fiercely resisting . |
| 2 | Behind the scrum — where Ian Hunter will have to prove he is fully recovered after a spate of leg injuries — Rob Andrew , as suspected , has held off the late challenge of Ellwood , though coach Ian McGeechan will certainly want him to do more to compromise the enemy back row . |
| 3 | For the first 11 of those paddling years he never heard of the BCU and it was only through his activities with the Air Training Corps and their involvement with the Devizes to Westminster Race that he got drawn into the position of race Publicity Officer which he has held since the late 70s . |
| 4 | TRADE : The gradual improvement in trade has held for the first four months of 1993 according to the Builders Merchants Federation . |
| 5 | Not only is the seat he has held for the past 15 years , in the Yvelines to the west of Paris , now under serious threat , but so too is the whole political future and his dream of a new social democratic movement . |
| 6 | In England and Wales the relationship has held throughout the 20th century , and has been particularly strong in the last twenty years … . |
| 7 | He held office for twenty-seven years and became one of the most renowned figures who have ever served the BDDA , because of his devotion to the cause of deafness and the dominating position he came to hold in the deaf world . |
| 8 | Right , for the next item members will need to note the statements from the joint trade unions liaison committee and the non-domestic rate-payers group and to find item twenty-one two today 's papers , the minutes of the budget review sub-committee , meeting held on the eighteenth of January , agenda item twenty-two brackets one . |
| 9 | If what ( 102 ) entailed was : ( 104 ) You are Napoleon and you are socially superior to ( or socially distant from ) me , the speaker Then ( 105 ) would have to have one reading under which it meant ( 106 ) , which it clearly does not have : ( 105 ) Vous n'etes pas Napoleon ( 106 ) You are Napoleon , and you are not socially superior to ( or socially distant from ) me , the speaker Exactly the same , and additional , arguments can be shown to hold for the complex honorifics of " exotic " languages . |
| 10 | The decline of the West Indian sugar economy , and the near-complete ability of the US cotton economy to supply its own black labour through the reproduction of its gender-balanced slave population , lessened the vested interest which might otherwise have held off the evangelical/humanitarian reformers rather longer . |
| 11 | ( Recall Keynes 's retention of the ‘ real wage equals marginal product ’ principle , so that only the first marginal condition failed to hold in the General Theory model . ) |
| 12 | Three thousand members of the Sealed Knot have been re-staging the civil war battle in which the city managed to hold off the royalist seige for twenty six days . |
| 13 | It turns out that the Heston Club team has lost a title that it had held for the past few years . |
| 14 | The post of Vice-President , which Cotti had held for the past year , was taken by René Felber ( Social Democratic Party — SPS ) , Minister for Political ( Foreign ) Affairs . |
| 15 | William was employed in the Maintenance Department on General Service Duties , a position he had held for the past two years . |
| 16 | These were the highest offices Arabs had held in the Israeli government since 1973 , when Abdel-Aziz Zoabi had been Deputy Minister of Health . |
| 17 | Following the August legislative and presidential elections [ see p. 39064 ] , the new Croatian government was sworn in on Sept. 8 ; seven ministers and one deputy prime minister retained the posts they had held in the previous government . |
| 18 | They have been reported as spending a great deal of time analysing conversations that they have held with the various Ketamine entities . |