Example sentences of "hold [noun sg] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the 1980 Constitution as amended in November 1987 the executive President , who holds office for a six-year term and is eligible for re-election , is both head of state and head of government . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | That is why we feel justified in saying that Realism has held sway for the last forty years . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |