Example sentences of "hold [num] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Swapo holds 41 of the Assembly 's 72 seats , but observers expected its main opponent , the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance ( DTA ) which has 21 seats , to block a Swapo-drafted constitution . |
| 2 | The laboratory holding three of the Taiwan Ten is believed to be about to acquire another 30 orang-utans , the origin of which is unknown . |
| 3 | He was holding one of the machine pistols . |
| 4 | He was holding one of the children , who was asleep . |
| 5 | One senior representative of an existing cash & carry said that MAKRO will ‘ obviously pose a threat ’ , not only to that trade but also to supermarkets , which will be hit by trade being diverted into the MARKO ‘ discounting ’ — through holding one of the membership passports . |
| 6 | But the new vans specially built to convey this traffic were 27ft long and capable of holding two at a time , the forerunner of the car flats of the 1970s and '80s . |
| 7 | Holders of the prefs will forego dividends in return for 13.7 per cent compound growth over the trust 's seven years , thereby allowing the managers to increase dividends to ordinary shareholders who will hold two-thirds of the capital . |
| 8 | Even worse , it was estimated that two of the unproductive classes , the nobility and the Church , held two-thirds of the land of Spain in entail and mortmain . |
| 9 | Fergus had brought a leather case with him ; it held three of the silver cups and a big hip flask . |
| 10 | A new government was appointed in November 1990 in which PDG member held three-quarters of the portfolios [ not one-third as stated on p. 37841 ] and the five largest opposition parties were represented by eight ministers [ for previous full Cabinet list as of May 1990 see p. 37480 ] . |
| 11 | Look — ’ he held one of the globes out to Pascoe . |
| 12 | During his time at Bristol he held one of the University 's Organ Scholarships based at St Paul 's Church , Clifton , and distinguished himself by winning most of the important prizes offered by the Royal College of Organists . |
| 13 | Instructions of such a length would have been wasteful of storage , so instructions were 20 bits long ( 6 for an operation code , 12 for a store address , and 2 unused ) and held two to a store word , as shown in Figure 1.4 . |