Example sentences of "hold [noun] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Investment business — grasping the nettle Investment business holds pitfalls for the unwary but it also offers a significant business opportunity |
| 2 | CRITICAL eyes will be focusing on Arazi at Saint-Cloud today when the French-trained colt will be out to prove he is still worthy of holding favouritism for the premier Classics on both sides of the Atlantic . |
| 3 | Those holding tickets for the pulled September show are asked to exchange them at the point of purchase . |
| 4 | The Department does not hold figures for the proposed capital expenditure on secondary schools in the borough of Sunderland in 1991-92 . |
| 5 | Hume 's argument , however , does not hold water for the simple reason that it assumes that the question of the possibility of significantly ascribing identity to objects as ontological existents can and should be decided via an analysis of the conditions of their identification , whereas the simple fact is that the concept of an entity as a potential topic of discourse is analytically linked with , and hence inseparable from , that of identity . |
| 6 | On balance Voltaire 's maxim that the poor could have no patrie probably still held sound for the vast majority of Belorussian peasants in early NEP . |
| 7 | That is why we feel justified in saying that Realism has held sway for the last forty years . |
| 8 | Dressed like a clergyman all his life , his own chemist , architect , engineer , and manager , Gamble held patents for the improved manufacture of bleaching powder , a process for the concentration of sulphuric acid , and a saltcake furnace . |
| 9 | In Belgium the clerical party won the 1880 elections and held power for the next twenty-five years , repealing an earlier secularization of education and making instruction in the Roman Catholic faith obligatory in all publicly maintained schools in 1895 . |
| 10 | Carlos Manuel Castillo , 61 , an economist representing the social democratic National Liberation Party ( PLN ) which had held power for the past eight years , came second with 47.3 per cent . |