Example sentences of "held out the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If thought and study had been restricted to whatever held out the visible prospect of material advantage , that explosive corruscation of human achievement which is European civilisation would never have occurred . |
| 2 | The review abolished local authority representation in health service bodies , gave a greater role to the Audit Commission to ensure value for money , gave doctors budgets and linked a greater share of their salaries to the number of patients treated , and held out the possibility of hospitals ‘ opting out ’ and becoming self-governing . |
| 3 | McQuaid held out the glass until it was three-quarters full . |
| 4 | While the Daily Star held out the glittering prospect of ‘ dark , damp , rat-infested dungeons in a medieval castle where troublemakers will be left to rot . ’ |
| 5 | This experiment has succeeded because it held out the goal of political as well as economic barriers overcome , of a Europe united . |
| 6 | Philip held out the paper that the chocolate bar Lee had given him had been wrapped in . |
| 7 | He held out the handful of nails and stuff he 'd taken out of his Dad 's shed . |
| 8 | But the discrepancy is more important than that : Qaddafi held out the promise of statelessness , of the absence of centralized control , and this failure was therefore at the centre of his political theory . |
| 9 | Miss Harker held out the chalk . |
| 10 | Gaddafi again held out the possibility of handing over the two men for trial by the Arab League in an Arab country , saying such a solution would be ‘ fine ’ . |
| 11 | For M Delors , a Labour government held out the hope of support for some of his budget proposals , which are set to cost the British taxpayer an extra £1 billion per year . |
| 12 | Undoubtedly the natural defences of the human body held out the greatest promise of further success , and undoubtedly , in England if not in the world , Sir Almroth Wright was the leading expert in devising ways of stimulating such defences . |
| 13 | The waiter held out the straw hat which had been left behind on a chair . |
| 14 | Nellie held out the frame . |
| 15 | She held out the wallet as she spoke . |
| 16 | He held out the collar to the teacher with one hand and pointed to a picture of Koko with the other . |
| 17 | When the evidence proved otherwise , the Home Office held out the prospect of a sizeable loan to be repaid on an unspecified date . |
| 18 | As Meryl held out the plate of petits-fours laughingly to Lee , she knew that someone was standing by her shoulder . |
| 19 | At first , when Perdita held out the bucket , she was too frozen with fear to drink . |
| 20 | Mr Brooke held out the prospect after his Commons statement on Saturday 's IRA bombing of Musgrave Park Hospital in which two soldiers were killed and ll people injured . |
| 21 | Although people were endowed with different abilities and suffered varying degrees of misfortune , capitalism held out the promise that hard work and frugality would lead to increased prosperity for all those who wished to avail themselves of the opportunities it offered . |
| 22 | She drank her tea and held out the cup for one of the under-maids to fill . |
| 23 | He held out the second fact-sheet , and Cowley glanced down as Bodie said , ‘ A ‘ K ’ registration Mercedes SL . |
| 24 | He held out the clipboard impatiently as if she quibbled over a minor detail . |
| 25 | Their poodles in the press held out the carrot of LOWER interest rates as reward for re-electing the Tories while their pals in the City put round the word — a Labour Government would mean HIGHER rates . |
| 26 | He held out the block ; this was a game for Anna to play with him . |
| 27 | He held out the salver to Galvone who took the sheet , unfolded it , read the few words on the paper and handed it to Hauser . |
| 28 | In addition , British membership of Nato and of the Commonwealth held out the possibility of access to a multiplicity of markets . |
| 29 | The R.S.F. was equally adamant and for a while , the management held out the driver was responsible was to be reprimanded . |
| 30 | For Raymond , whose county had been held as a fief of Aquitaine since 1173 , the replacement of Richard by his elder brother held out the prospect of release from a galling sense of subordination . |