Example sentences of "holding [adj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other words , holding constant the controlled domain , hierarchy increases as authorized decision-making becomes more concentrated amongst people in an organization . |
| 2 | The figure that we have come up with in fact is derived by holding constant the numbers rather than the rate of vacant dwellings through to the year two thousand and six , which implies that by the year two thousand six , we 'd have would have a vacancy rate of six point two percent or or thereabouts . |
| 3 | You must then perform a small conjuring trick — holding all the layers of the picture firmly together , turn the frame and picture upside down and place on the table , then fix on the hardboard back . |
| 4 | ‘ The French are in Frasnes , and we 're holding all the farms beyond the stream . |
| 5 | And then we were held up at a place because some of our tanks e e the seventy ninth armoured division was er holding all the special tanks er which were flamethrowers and flails and all these sort of things . |
| 6 | ‘ He 's got a teacher bossing him around who 's about four years older than he is , if that , and a lot less self-confident , but holding all the aces . |
| 7 | The brilliant spell of weather was still holding good the following morning . |
| 8 | He ended the War holding both the Croix de Guerre and the petainiste decoration , the ‘ francisque ’ . |