Example sentences of "to hold [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The preference for the parent-child relationship as a source of routine moral and emotional support seems to hold good for the white majority , but perhaps less so for people with different ethnic cultural backgrounds . |
| 2 | There appeared to be a determinate , stable , inverse relationship between the rate of change of money wages and the unemployment rate which had continued to hold good for almost a century . |
| 3 | ‘ Anyone who underestimates our capacity to hold firm in these matters will be involved in a terrible miscalculation . ’ |
| 4 | It now requires the Scots ' nerve , and more importantly their defence , to hold firm against Norway at Hampden next month to earn the point still needed to qualify for the World Cup finals in Italy next summer . |
| 5 | Given that the majority was aligned on grounds which had nothing to do with policy , it was difficult for strangers to vote so publicly and at the same time to hold aloof from an alignment in which they had no personal interest , and which might even have damaged their commercial interests . |
| 6 | She accepted the farewells of her parents and brothers as if in a dream : her real self seemed to hold aloof from the tearful embraces of her mother , the kisses of her brothers , and her father 's last loving hug before she stepped into the boat to be rowed out across the harbour . |
| 7 | The Smiths , although already troubled by contradictions , still TRY to hold true to those early values . |
| 8 | According to the former , English studies was seen as failing to hold true to its proper identity as an educational principle and cultured force . |
| 9 | The same ought to hold true for a disk drive or whatever , as long as the chassis into which it plugs remains the same . |
| 10 | Although some of the West 's Arab partners have hinted that they might be able to live with this and that a settlement of the Arab-Israeli dispute and the Palestinian issue is no longer at the top of the Arab agenda , this is unlikely to hold true for long . |
| 11 | To explain this point ( which Barro ( 1977a ) recognizes in a footnote , p.107 fn. 15 ) and also to demonstrate that Barro 's results appear to hold true for countries other than the US , we shall outline a model similar to Barro 's which Attfield , Demery and Duck ( 1981a ) ( henceforth ADD ) applied to UK annual data for the period 1946–77 . |
| 12 | Pomerantz 1975 , 1984 ) to hold true for interactions among middle-class speakers of English in some communities . |
| 13 | If this percentage potential could be considered to hold true outside the USA , we would certainly have to ask of the great majority of congregations , ‘ What has happened to your ten per cent ? ’ |
| 14 | If so , was the muddle caused by a fallacy of composition , illegitimately assuming that what held true in the small continued to hold true in the large ? |
| 15 | absorbency both in order to take up cosmetics and cleansing agents , and a the same time to hold sufficient of the cleansing agents whilst they are being applied . |