Example sentences of "hold [adv] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , no creative scientist holds rigidly to a fixed position in the light of new evidence , and only Kandel himself can say how far he has now moved beyond such earlier , campaigning reductionism . |
| 2 | Even by the 1980s , seminar teaching had found little hold there despite a decreasing proportion of staff to students . |
| 3 | THE Boot Room on Sky stars Andy Gray holding forth like a latter-day Bill Shankly in the tabernacle of Anfield . |
| 4 | Some of his oldest friends , who for years had been accustomed to seeing him , fat and genial , as the leading light of a pig-sticking expedition , were astonished to hear him now holding forth like a veritable Newton or Faraday and discussing the latest discoveries in medicine as fluently as if they were entries in the Bengal Club Cup or the Planters ' Handicap . |
| 5 | His theme is memory , a faculty with which he has been prodigiously blessed , though his origins as ‘ the child of Russian Jews from New Jersey ’ are held rather as a noble refusal to forget . |
| 6 | It is held together with a cryptic seal showing a human eye , a large X with peck marks round it and the words ‘ a return ’ written underneath . |
| 7 | Joe left the shop blushing and as soon as he was safely away from it , gave the brown paper parcel to an old woman who shuffled along , her worn shoes held together with a large safety pin . |
| 8 | The youth market , which had been held together in a fragile unity , fragmented : on the one hand into Teenybop , on the other into the Underground . |
| 9 | As a result , the particles are held together in a definite volume . |
| 10 | In The Division of Labour primitive and industrial societies were contrasted , since each was held together in a different way and by a distinctive kind of social glue . |
| 11 | In a complex web of mystifying deals , Hibs were held together by a financial structure which in the space of a few years involved a local bookmaker , an English based company with extensive leisure interests in the west country and a company registered in Panama called Charcoal Holdings . |
| 12 | Any community is held together by a complex web of achievement , responsibility and loyalty . |
| 13 | This is , of course , to start many hares ; while it would be foolish to try to pursue them all in any one study , the concept of a stream of work , held together by a common focus on the effects of organizational difference and permitting the exploration of particular issues as they arise , is a daunting but attractive prospect . |
| 14 | This may be contrasted with a moral or rule-based association which is not held together by a common purpose but merely by the authority of common practices . |
| 15 | A discipline that is structurally diverse , and consists of a loosely related collection of sub-fields might nevertheless be held together by a common ethos or set of norms , attitudes and habits ; even by a common style . |
| 16 | Clark Kerr put it aptly enough in his famous observation that the ‘ multiversity ’ , as he called it , had become ‘ a series of individual faculty entrepreneurs held together by a common grievance over parking ’ . |
| 17 | Society comes to resemble ‘ a constellation of governments , rather than an association of individuals held together by a single government ’ . |
| 18 | The loading bay had old roll-across galvanised doors , twisted and battered out of shape and just about held together by a new-looking chain sheathed in blue plastic . |
| 19 | In striking contrast , modern industrial societies were characterized by heterogeneity , and were held together by a superior bonding principle which , following the centuries ' old analogy between the body-politic and the human organism , Durkheim chose to call ‘ organic solidarity ’ . |
| 20 | The centrepiece of Joseph Ettedgui 's latest emporium is this complex glass stair held together by a delicate spider 's web of steel rods , split pins and steel rings . |
| 21 | The motifs are supplied in pack form held together by a removable document binder and are clearly marked out on ready-to-use , clear plastic sheets . |
| 22 | Tide at low flood held still by a spent moon , |
| 23 | She walked with him to his carriage , the reckless high-perch phaeton she had seen often enough outside the Fleece , his horse held now by a wizened little urchin quite blue with cold , to whom he tossed a coin . |
| 24 | After thirty years in the force Wycliffe still held fast to a lingering hope that man may yet prove perfectable ; woman too . |
| 25 | An innocuous bachelor party can be held either at a respectable restaurant where food is served along with drink , or with food and family present at home . |
| 26 | In law , property may be held either by a natural person , or by a number of such persons , or by an incorporated body such as a company . |