Example sentences of "hold [prep] the [noun] of " 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 | We support its major industries and way of life , while recognising the place it holds in the hearts of those who live in towns . |
| 4 | Rainbow indicates the object that Riva holds in the palm of her hand . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The insider must also know that the information he holds at the time of the trades in question is unpublished price sensitive information . |
| 7 | Hold in the ball of your hand , and dispense with your thumb |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In order to predict how the universe should have started off , one needs laws that hold at the beginning of time . |
| 14 | There are as many linguistic ‘ cues to coherence ’ ( a concept to be discussed in detail in Chapter 6 ) holding between the pairs of sentences : |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | After some months , the baby learns to walk along branches by holding onto the hairs of its mother 's rump . |
| 18 | I think that the House needs to know whether he will abolish fund holding in the teeth of opposition from virtually every GP and from the British Medical Association . |
| 19 | From the records of property holding in the city of London between c 1200 and 1666 , it is possible to trace a remarkable sequence of changes in the fabric of the city , the density of settlement , the property market , and the social and economic structure . |
| 20 | The tenant entering under a void lease became by virtue of possession and the payment of a yearly rent , a yearly tenant holding on the terms of the agreement so far as those terms were consistent with the yearly tenancy . |
| 21 | In other words , Athens was still holding to the idea of a central Greek , religiously based land empire . |
| 22 | At the time of King William 's visit in 1861 , Prussian policy had been simply that of holding to the treaties of 1815 with no thought of altering the status quo . |
| 23 | And of all fighters Hotspur could remember holding at the end of his own sword , this was the bonniest . |
| 24 | Nationalists organized in " Citizens ' Committees " attempted to pre-empt the Estonian Supreme Soviet elections by holding at the end of February and in early March privately organized elections to a rival " Congress of Estonia " , intended as a revival of the parliament of the independent pre-war republic . |
| 25 | The Thatcher administration was still new to the power it was to hold for the rest of the decade and a reader might reasonably expect to find something seminal in the report . |
| 26 | As he explores the poetry of Byron at Salisbury he works hard at his arithmetic and English composition until he is ‘ chosen as fit to enter the Civil Service , to hold for the rest of my active life time the pen that is mightier ( when you get a good one ) than the sword ( when you get a bad one ) . ’ |
| 27 | Tip three tonight is Abbey View Margo in race seven , trap two ; well drawn , she can hold off the threats of trap one , Vera May . |
| 28 | There was no guarantee that it would lead to a new deal for the industry nor that , even as a compromise , it would hold against the tensions of a situation in which one side at least seemed determined to continue on a collision course . |
| 29 | His blueprint for evolving ‘ a genuine parliamentary democracy ’ will be discussed at a preparatory conference next spring which the European parliament will hold with the Council of Ministers and the bureaucratic Commission . |
| 30 | What you must NOT do is hold up the edge of the knitting , taking the weight off it , in an attempt to help the linker cast off . |