Example sentences of "hold [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Longfellows solid array of red T-shirts with a logo ‘ Simply The Best ’ unfortunately did n't hold good at the heels of the hunt . |
| 2 | One man at least was wrongly classed as a tailor , namely Stephen Jenings , who had served as Mayor in 1508 — 9 , and was now the highest assessed citizen at £3,000 ; the same must hold good for other rich tailors , since the craft itself was poorly remunerated . |
| 3 | I consider that this must also hold good for the right of establishment : in order for a national of a member state to be eligible to be regarded as exercising his right of establishment in another member state , it is not enough that he should be operating a fishing vessel registered in that state ; in addition , his activity must have other links with the territory of that State . |
| 4 | However true this may be for the economic development of the United States — and even there such contentious hypotheticals are highly dubious — it certainly can not hold good for European expansion and supremacy in the later nineteenth century . |
| 5 | This will hold good for the more regularly used applications . |
| 6 | These identifications will not hold good throughout the poem , precisely because the two poets were so intimate , and would remain so : each could and did ‘ internalize , the other , in the sense that within Yeats there was a voice that spoke the sentiments of Pound , and within Pound a voice that spoke like Yeats . |
| 7 | If the principle of contesting every seat holds good in England , Scotland and Wales it should hold good in Northern Ireland as well . |
| 8 | Not only do they hold good against the trustee himself , and against his creditors during his life-time and his representatives after his death , but also against all to whom he may have transferred the property , and who can not show that they acquired it for value and without notice of the trust . |
| 9 | Family religion forged bonds which , it was hoped , would hold firm through the valley of death . |
| 10 | HOWEVER confident we pretend to be that the Conservatives will be returned with a majority of at least 25 , we must accept the possibility that this gesticulating Welsh oaf will hold centre-stage until such time as the economy , public order and constitution collapse about his ears . |
| 11 | That 's an issue he 'd surely hold close between the two of them as long as he thought no absolute harm had come of it . |
| 12 | But what holds true within one phylum may well hold true across them . |
| 13 | Whether that will hold true across the country remains to be seen . |
| 14 | Then using eqn ( 7.4 ) this becomes , after rearrangement , which , being expressed entirely in terms of tensors , will hold true under general transformations of coordinates . |
| 15 | This situation would not necessarily hold true for another council . ’ |
| 16 | The common argument that owner-occupation offers greater mobility does not generally hold true for women , as was clear in our discussion of what happens on marital breakdown . |
| 17 | Although care must be taken in generalizing too much from Newby 's research in East Anglia , these contentions might well hold true for other rural areas of Britain . |
| 18 | Todor ( 1980 ) predicted that this would hold true for other tasks mediated by the language hemisphere and he therefore required his subjects to carry out a sequential motor task . |
| 19 | All the results found in studies on non-alcoholic subjects may not hold true for chronic alcoholic patients . |