Example sentences of "not hold [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 When she was not holding forth on the almighty Telscombes , or the glories of Virginia , Miss Beard had little to say ; and Ruth was in no mood to talk .
2 Do not hold on to the interviewer 's hand for too long as this signals overfamiliarity .
3 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 ’ .
4 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 .
5 The paper draws on a model which , while not held up as the definitive approach , could nevertheless serve as a working document for schools wrestling with the realities of moving towards an integrated structure .
6 205. ( 1 ) ( ix ) Land includes … land of any tenure , and mines and minerals , whether or not held apart from the surface , buildings or parts of buildings ( whether the division is horizontal , vertical or made in any other way ) and other corporeal hereditaments ; also a manor , an advowson , and a rent and other incorporeal hereditament , and an easement , right , privilege , or benefit in , over , or derived from land ; but not an undivided share in land ; and " mines and minerals " include any strata or seam of minerals or substances in or under any land , and powers of working and getting the same but not an undivided share thereof ; and " manor " includes a lordship , and reputed manor or lordship ; and " hereditament " means any real property which on an intestacy occurring before the commencement of this Act might have devolved upon an heir …
7 These dithiadiazoles are held together in dimeric pairs through S — S interactions , as in , though they are not held together in the trans -type configuration , but in a variety of other orientations .
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