Example sentences of "hold [prep] [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A similar relationship holds between the prices of futures contracts with different delivery months : where P f 1 = current price of futures contract with delivery in year T 1 , P f 2 = current price of futures contract with delivery in year T 2 ( T 1 < T 2 ) . |
| 2 | I think the same thing holds for the philosophy of art . |
| 3 | The tenant holds under an agreement for a lease . |
| 4 | We support its major industries and way of life , while recognising the place it holds in the hearts of those who live in towns . |
| 5 | Rainbow indicates the object that Riva holds in the palm of her hand . |
| 6 | Tight-eyed against the light , I found some finger holds at the edge of reach and slid , sackless for the second time , onto the white slab . |
| 7 | The insider must also know that the information he holds at the time of the trades in question is unpublished price sensitive information . |
| 8 | Hold for a count of eight . |
| 9 | Hold for a count of 15 , relax and repeat . |
| 10 | Hold for a count of 10 , pulling up a little higher with each count . |
| 11 | Hold for a count of five . |
| 12 | Hold for a count of five . |
| 13 | Political scientists and economists differ in the views they hold about the extent to which central government ought to control the activities of local government . |
| 14 | I 've lifted it to my ear before my brain switches to caution , so I hold onto the handset without speaking . |
| 15 | By half emptying one of the sacks onto the floor of the van he found he could drag it with his right hand and hold onto the box with his left . |
| 16 | Grate the frozen margarine into the flour ( hold in a piece of foil if it becomes sticky ) . |
| 17 | Hold in the ball of your hand , and dispense with your thumb |
| 18 | The second case concerns a somewhat lesser man : Guillaume-Sanche de Pommiers , damoiseau , who spoke on behalf of his two co-heirs and co-seigneurs , pierre and Pierre-Amanieu de Pommiers , when he acknowledged that they ‘ held in fee , immediately from the … king of England , lord of Ireland and duke of Aquitaine , the castle of Pommiers with the honour , and all that these co-heirs hold in the parishes of Morizès and Escaude , and at Tremblet , and the toll which they levy on land at Garges , near La Réole ’ . |
| 19 | It consists of notes and coin ( both in circulation and in banks ' tills ) , and the operational balances that banks hold in the Bank of England . |
| 20 | Few elitists now hold to the notion of a single dominant elite effectively exercising or directing the exercise of all important functions , and few now use the term ‘ elite ’ as the all-embracing explanatory concept which it is for the classical theorists . |
| 21 | But if we hold to the idea of democracy as popular power , then it is clear that the concentration of so much power in non-accountable hands , outside the control of elected bodies , is incompatible with democracy . |
| 22 | They may not , it is true , hold to the conception of meaning which , for example , many interactionists would , but this is , again , a matter for serious analysis and argument rather than sloganeering and posturing . |
| 23 | In order to predict how the universe should have started off , one needs laws that hold at the beginning of time . |
| 24 | There are as many linguistic ‘ cues to coherence ’ ( a concept to be discussed in detail in Chapter 6 ) holding between the pairs of sentences : |
| 25 | Grass is not her favourite surface and there were many who thought she would have great difficulty holding off the challenges of Steffi Graf , Martina Navratilova or Gabriela Sabatini . |
| 26 | PW also had to hand back $500,000 of the client 's money , which it was holding as a contingency against liability . |
| 27 | At the same time as building up the 15 per cent stake , GM would make a big cash injection into Jaguar — perhaps as much as £200m — to help the Coventry-based firm to fend off Ford , which has already announced it plans to take a 15 per cent holding as a prelude to a full takeover bid . |
| 28 | Where a company is controlled by its directors , its expansion strategy may outgrow the resources of its directors so that they can not maintain their percentage holding through a series of costly rights issues or placings , with a consequential dilution of that holding . |
| 29 | Holding onto the balcony as if we were in rough seas , we shout only to have our words whipped away . |
| 30 | He knew roughly where he was , or he knew in theory , and he stumbled slowly along in a westerly direction , sometimes holding onto the trunk of a birch tree . |