Example sentences of "who hold the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under its previous director , Mark Francis , who holds the current position of curator of contemporary art at Pittsburgh 's Carnegie Museum , it enjoyed international recognition for its adventurous exhibitions policy . |
| 2 | Hodson , who holds the dubious distinction of being relegated with every club he has played for , had rejected a new one-year contract and was on a week-to-week basis . |
| 3 | Who holds the Extra-Strong Mint like a host ? |
| 4 | To someone who holds the Cartesian view it must seem that only something we would hardly call ‘ perception ’ reflects the philosophical truth of the matter . |
| 5 | It is the photographs ( Meisel , Weber and their ilk ) who hold the real power over images . |
| 6 | Those who hold the royal family dear could hardly wait for her downfall . |
| 7 | Like the dozens of blue uniformed Serbs , who hold the high ground around outlying Serbian villages to the east of Sarajevo , the bands of Muslims who greeted me on the other side with loud applause expected I would somehow provide aid . |
| 8 | Rounding on conservative opponents , Gorbachev commented : " When we embarked on perestroika we of course realized that it would inevitably affect the interests of those who held the actual power and who administered society 's wealth in the name of the people . |
| 9 | There was a rope around me and I followed after Silver , who held the other end . |
| 10 | David Green who held the combined post of Overseas Director and Senior Administrative Officer is leaving us for other employment . |
| 11 | The exceptions were the Frenchmen and Savoyards in the service of Henry III , Edward I and Edward II , such as Jean de Grilly or Maurice and Amaury de Craon , who served as seneschals ; or the Italian creditors of Edward I and Edward II who held the financial office of constable as a means whereby their loans were assigned for repay-ment from Gascon revenues . |
| 12 | The banks who held the great majority of private accounts were divided by Joslin into two groups . |
| 13 | The writer , Marianne Farningham , wrote of the preaching of her pastor at College Street Baptist Chapel in Northampton in equally rapturous terms : ‘ Not a sound was heard but the musical voice of the speaker , who held the great crowd in rapt and absolute attention . |
| 14 | Joe Bygraves , the heavyweight who beat Henry Cooper and drew with Dick Richardson in 1957 to defend his Commonwealth title , Bunny Grant , who outpointed Dave Charnley to win the Commonwealth lightweight title in 1965 , and Percy Hayles , who held the same title from 1968 till 1974 ( all from Jamaica ) provide notable exceptions . |