Example sentences of "hold out [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | there 's another meaning to the word respect , which is what is shown up by the Stoke Newington incident , and other similar incidents , in that , you can only respect somebody if they actually live up to the standards that they actually hold out to the rest of you . |
| 2 | This is the kind of question which has no answer , since no difference between commitment and rhetoric will be discernable until refugees are faced with a real choice between some kind of a settlement falling short of the ideal and holding out for the ideal itself . |
| 3 | Prison officers at Strangeways are threatening to break off negotiations with those inmates still holding out in the jail , but they 're denying the ultimatum means they 'll use force to end the five day siege . |
| 4 | Clearly the town could not hold out without the castle , which the Duke contemptuously dismissed as ‘ an old hen-coop which he would speedily bring down about their ears ’ . |
| 5 | But I doubt he 'll hold out for the money . |
| 6 | When Henry V died in Normandy in 1422 mos teutonicus was employed , as it was thought that conventional embalming would not hold out for the journey back to England . |
| 7 | Among the speakers who had convinced the Bosnian Serbs that they must hold out against the world was a guest of honour , a painter called Milic Od Macve . |
| 8 | A recent academic study compared the training available to young people in this country and that available to young people in Germany — for so long held out as the model that all other countries should follow in this regard . |
| 9 | As the beetle lumbers into the air , the stiff wing covers are usually held out to the side , a posture that inevitably hampers efficient flight . |
| 10 | The document states that Richard Walter Jenkins shall ‘ absolutely renounce and abandon the use of the surname of the parent and shall bear the surname of the adopter and shall be held out to the world and in all respects treated as if he were in fact the child of the adopter ’ . |
| 11 | He was ready now , and had his hand held out for the instrument , lightly brushing her fingers accidentally as she passed it to him . |
| 12 | If this state of affairs continues the state will be denied an important source of legitimation for its own authority — namely the promise ( which it has held out in the past ) of a steady increase in the level of material well-being enjoyed by the population as a whole ( Poggi , 1978 ; Winkler , 1975 ; Poulantzas , 1978 ; Habermas , 1971 , 1976 ) . |
| 13 | Walter Sherfield , who had started school the year before , remembers the time well , particularly during the long hot summer days when lessons were held out in the open , under the old oak trees . |
| 14 | And the long-suffering elder , which always looks beautiful , graceful , however much you cut it , with its lacy plates held out to the sun . |
| 15 | In no time at all Travis had a good fire going , and the heat from it drew her to her knees beside it , hands held out to the warmth . |
| 16 | For the first time since Tamar had met her , the putty-coloured cheeks were flushed and the hands which she held out for the child were shaking . |
| 17 | The definition of an inn is to be found in s.1(3) of the HPA 1956 — ‘ an establishment held out by the proprietor as offering food , drink and , if so required , sleeping accommodation , without special contract , to any traveller presenting himself who appears able and willing to pay a reasonable sum for the services and facilities provided and who is in a fit state to be received ’ . |