Example sentences of "hold up [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Advertising revenue is holding up well in the Down Recorder says managing director Colin Crichton . |
| 2 | Older brick , with its higher sand content , will hold up better in the heat . |
| 3 | However , Historic Scotland 's visitor numbers have held up well in the context of the overall market picture , ’ explains Bill . |
| 4 | She was held up briefly in the final when the in-form Sanchez-Vicario swept to a 4–1 lead ( and deservedly so ) and yet Martina , the grass court player supreme , merely drew on her experience , stepped up a gear , kept her nerve and won 5 games in a row to deflate the Spanish challenge . |
| 5 | For one thing it seems that Ho 's reply , via Saigon , was held up deliberately by the French authorities so that it was not received in Paris until after the war had begun . |
| 6 | The leg is kept completely straight , with the hands held up close to the body as a rearguard defence . |
| 7 | What a pity it is that the US government negotiating teams are allowed to give the impression that progress in the world trade negotiations is being held up solely by the intransigence of European farmers . |
| 8 | It is significant that in July 1939 , at a time when Stalin was actively negotiating the Nazi-Soviet pact with Hitler , Nizan was quoting Zhdanov to the effect that the finalising of the tripartite peace agreement was being held up solely by the delaying tactics of France and Great Britain . |
| 9 | The car markets to which Johnson Matthey supplies autocatalysts held up well during the year in spite of recession . |
| 10 | Four or five storeys high , they tottered against each other , held up only by the shells of neighbouring structures , their innards shrivelled up by fire , a real Dresden of a street . |