Example sentences of "hold the [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | BBC BASIC does this for you automatically and provides a pointer PTR# ( a pseudo-variable ) which holds the position of the NEXT character ( byte ) to be written/read . |
| 2 | Your partner holds the pad at the side of the shin of the flexed leg . |
| 3 | There is also a 16-bit stack pointer register , which holds the address of the top of a stack or last-in-first-out list of store locations ( see Chapter 3 ) . |
| 4 | The home record storage area holds the address of the first synonym . |
| 5 | This holds the address of the second synonym , and so on . |
| 6 | The idea , he says , is to spread the message that neither organised religion nor conventional science holds the answers to the world 's problems . |
| 7 | Following the general election in April 1989 the Arab Baath Socialist Party holds the majority of the Assembly seats , the remainder being distributed among members of the state-sponsored National Progressive Patriotic Front ( NPPF ) [ see p. 36601 ] . |
| 8 | The latter is further symbolized in the awakening lion and the eagle that holds the emblem of the city in its feet . |
| 9 | The butcher holds the head by the hair and deftly scalps it , then , tying the long black hair into a knot , he tosses it into the gully . |
| 10 | The hon. Member for Broxtowe ( Mr. Lester ) holds the attention of the House when he speaks on foreign affairs , and rightly so . |
| 11 | Kelso also holds the record for the highest-priced winner , Equinoctial , at 250-1 in a handicap hurdle in November , 1990 . |
| 12 | George also holds the record for the number of goals scored in a single season from the flank with a fabulous 22 goals in 1927–28 . |
| 13 | The Asdex tokamak at Garching in West Germany has what is known as a ‘ poloidal divertor ’ and holds the record for the duration of a plasma in a tokamak — Asdex has sustained its plasma for 10 seconds . |
| 14 | At the other end of the scale , Dall holds the record for the most powerful single-lens microscopes . |
| 15 | President Theodore Roosevelt holds the record for the number of hands shaken at an official function ? |
| 16 | The Gaboon viper holds the record for the longest fangs — of the snake 's 3 m ( 10 ft ) length , the fangs measure almost 3 cm ( 1 in ) . |
| 17 | Derbyshire 's 22-year-old batsman Chris Adams , who now holds the record for the fastest century in the county 's history , is another with hopes of a place in the Australian sun this winter . |
| 18 | WALES holds the record among the regions for the number of organisations actively involving themselves in getting new lines opened , new stations added and services improved . |
| 19 | Holds the strength for the plant against the season |
| 20 | An index register normally holds the offset of the current element within the vector , and needs suitable modification between iterations of the loop . |
| 21 | A delay timer , variable between zero and 180 seconds , holds the elevator at the end of the slew , allowing the corners of the store to be filled evenly . |
| 22 | GRiD also holds the Patent on the idea of a fold-up screen which is part of every laptop , or notebook computer . |
| 23 | The village of West Witton in Yorkshire holds the ceremony of the ‘ Burning of Bartle ’ on the Saturday nearest to 24 August , St Bartholomew 's Day , to whom the local church is dedicated . |
| 24 | WMGO holds the account in the UK , while BBDO holds it in Italy . |
| 25 | This great medieval church still holds the shrine of the Three Wise Men , taken there by Barbarossa 's Chancellor Rainald von Dassell . |
| 26 | Ian Wright has become a player who holds the key for the two Grahams , George and Taylor . |
| 27 | Lord Leverhulme 's aphorism still holds the key to the Lewis problem . |
| 28 | But ‘ there is no one method , medium , approach , device , or philosophy that holds the key to the process of learning to read … |
| 29 | The famous Bullock report of 1975 , A language for life , after an investigation of teaching in schools , came to the conclusion that ‘ there is no one method , medium , approach , device , or philosophy that holds the key to the process of learning to read ’ ( DES , 1975 , p.77 ) . |
| 30 | Indeed , perhaps the principal occupational deformation in the written arts , the social sciences and in journalism is the belief that one 's particular profession holds the key to the meaning of social life . |