Example sentences of "[verb] hold [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 In a trolley designed to hold food at the correct temperature .
2 That is why we feel justified in saying that Realism has held sway for the last forty years .
3 The current President , Fidel Castro Ruz , has held office since the socialist revolution of January 1959 .
4 The view of the authors is that these ideas need developing further to represent a document as a complex data object holding information in the form of structured data .
5 Archives and museums keep objects that hold information and they store information about the entities ( i.e. objects ) they hold , but whether they can be said to hold knowledge in the same way libraries do is debatable .
6 It is not since the days of rivalry between Bill Shankly and Don Revie that Leeds have won at Liverpool , and more recently every ground seems to hold menace for the Yorkshire side .
7 Further research revealed that in 1414/15 an Andrew Forshey had been chosen as one of two men to represent the borough in parliament , and it seemed sensible to hazard that a man of this standing would have held property in the area , for he would have been unlikely to have been elected by his fellow bailiffs , with the assent of the whole community , if he had not been of substantial material worth .
8 Casual vacancies in the membership of a board may be filled by the election of a duly qualified person at the first meeting of the appointing council after the vacancy occurred and the person elected holds office to the next election of the board .
9 Other servants of the prince who continued to hold office in the earldom were his steward of the household , Sir William Stanley , and Robert Roo , his gentleman of the pantry .
10 Other servants of the prince who continued to hold office in the earldom were his steward of the household , Sir William Stanley , and Robert Roo , his gentleman of the pantry .
11 Thus Gloucester 's possession of Chesham ( Bucks. ) gave him the service of the Wedons , who had held land in the manor since the thirteenth century and who acted as his bailiffs there .
12 Thus Gloucester 's possession of Chesham ( Bucks. ) gave him the service of the Wedons , who had held land in the manor since the thirteenth century and who acted as his bailiffs there .
13 He had held sway at the College for 45 years , for 40 of which he had been assisted by his faithful subordinate William Sewell who now , at the age of 58 , was to succeed his master as Professor .
14 This shift went well beyond the general decline of the traditional working class in the electorate ( discussed below ) and reflected the increasing selection of ‘ more educated candidates ’ with ‘ administrative aptitudes ’ under the conditions of electoral competition , and within the dominant technocratic conception of politics , which had held sway since the rise of ‘ Butskellism ’ in the mid '50s .
15 Exempted from the new regulations were people who had held citizenship of the pre-1940 independent Estonia and their descendants .
16 He was a keen supporter of the BDDA and before being elected Chairman had held office on the executive since 1951 and as Vice-chairman since 1960 .
17 Carlos Manuel Castillo , 61 , an economist representing the social democratic National Liberation Party ( PLN ) which had held power for the past eight years , came second with 47.3 per cent .
18 So lest any misunderstandings arrive that this is some thin end of some wedge , I should also add that the restriction we 're proposing only applies to national committees , does n't apply to any other office anywhere in the union and to reinforce that point the C E C will be recommending support for a general motion underlining the rights of people who are unemployed or retired to hold office throughout the G M B.
19 The common aim is to found a Second Republic and to reduce or eliminate the power of the political cliques who have held sway since the fall of fascism .
20 Although the Chinese have held jade in the highest regard for a matter of five thousand years and carried its symbolic use to levels of sophistication far beyond that of other peoples , no natural deposits are yet known from within the ancient limits of their country .
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