Example sentences of "hold [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | New sluice gates hold out the sea water at high tides . |
| 32 | Advice like ‘ it 's your age ’ or ‘ you 'll just have to learn to live with it ’ is beginning to wear thin and many people are seeking desperately for alternatives which hold out the promise of improved health . |
| 33 | Only the most illustrious names hold out the lure of considerable profit ; but many thousands of unknown men and women have left behind them a legacy of written material that will never be illicitly copied and imitated yet will yield a rich store of history , and throw light on their place and period , life and labours , which are every bit as important , in the ultimate scale of things , as the antics and accomplishments of those who contrived to hit the headlines . |
| 34 | Participants in a five-year effort by the Carnegie Corporation to bring science and government closer together believe that they have improved that relationship somewhat and hold out the promise of even greater success . |
| 35 | Modern techniques of electroencephalography ( BEG ) , however , hold out the promise of localising the electrical activity of the brain in so far as this can be detected at the scalp . |
| 36 | The authors hold out the hope that at a future date , when the processes involved are better understood , the damage done to the ozone layer may be reversed . |
| 37 | The alternative of higher personal subscriptions does not , I believe , hold out the likelihood of sufficient income to meet the mounting costs of protecting yachtsmen and their rights . |
| 38 | went in there with a twenty cigarette box erm two twenty cigarette boxes yeah ? like when you see cigarette and they pull out their fag , have you got a cigarette and hold out the box forty two cigarettes . |