Example sentences of "hold [noun] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , the relationship between school and community and the way in which the latter holds implications for the teacher 's task . |
| 2 | Investment business — grasping the nettle Investment business holds pitfalls for the unwary but it also offers a significant business opportunity |
| 3 | Under the 1980 Constitution as amended in November 1987 the executive President , who holds office for a six-year term and is eligible for re-election , is both head of state and head of government . |
| 4 | Large users include direct mail order suppliers ; financial organisations and building societies , which hold addresses for every account holder ; gas and electricity companies and TV rental companies which maintain customer accounting information ; multiple retailers who operate their own credit cards ; travel companies ; motor appliance and furniture manufacturers who retain addresses for warranty or guarantee Purposes ; manufacturers who obtain addresses from special on-pack promotion or coupon drops ; even charities and political parties . |
| 5 | Firms hold stocks for a variety of technical reasons , some intended , such as promoting the smooth flow of production , and some unintended , such as unplanned deviation between actual and expected sales . |
| 6 | Neither the SOC forces nor the guerrilla forces made significant gains in terms of control of territory during August ; the SOC forces on the whole maintained their positions , while the guerrillas continued to launch attacks and hold positions for a few hours before retreating . |
| 7 | CRITICAL eyes will be focusing on Arazi at Saint-Cloud today when the French-trained colt will be out to prove he is still worthy of holding favouritism for the premier Classics on both sides of the Atlantic . |
| 8 | ‘ These will be used for brake-van rides at Llanuwchllyn and will be free for passengers holding tickets for a full journey . |
| 9 | Those holding tickets for the pulled September show are asked to exchange them at the point of purchase . |
| 10 | Tickets for the original Cambridge and Birmingham gigs remain valid , while fans holding tickets for the London shows on the first , second or third nights must attend the equivalent evenings in January . |
| 11 | Tonight , Mr Taylor said holding Cheltenham for the Conservatives was much more important than what some people thought of him . |
| 12 | But it 's not a question of holding office for the sake of holding office . |
| 13 | It is fairly common to have two areas of control store , one read-only ( to hold microprograms for the computer instruction set ) and one writeable . |
| 14 | It is not since the days of rivalry between Bill Shankly and Don Revie that Leeds have won at Liverpool , and more recently every ground seems to hold menace for the Yorkshire side . |
| 15 | The Department does not hold figures for the proposed capital expenditure on secondary schools in the borough of Sunderland in 1991-92 . |
| 16 | But there is one theory which will not hold water for a moment ; and that is , that we were sent here to maintain the present Government in office . |
| 17 | Hume 's argument , however , does not hold water for the simple reason that it assumes that the question of the possibility of significantly ascribing identity to objects as ontological existents can and should be decided via an analysis of the conditions of their identification , whereas the simple fact is that the concept of an entity as a potential topic of discourse is analytically linked with , and hence inseparable from , that of identity . |
| 18 | A large container for housing the spider ( see opposite , Making the cage ) ; two small containers , one with a lid , such as small jam jars or pickle jars — one is to catch the spiders in , the other is to hold water for the twigs ; a shallow container such as the plastic lid of a food pack , to hold the water supply ; some fresh leafy twigs ; some well-branched leafless twigs ; soil ; a metre or two of iron wire , about 1 mm diameter ; pieces of black cardboard ; Copydex or similar adhesive . |
| 19 | Taylor announced that he would hold elections for a national assembly on Oct. 10 , after which the assembly would meet in the middle of the month . |
| 20 | The second option , which naturally held attractions for the RPF parliamentarians , was met with total scorn by de Gaulle . |
| 21 | It looked so simple , so pure , yet it had held terrors for the Ralembergs and would be the beginning of fresh horrors for me . |
| 22 | On balance Voltaire 's maxim that the poor could have no patrie probably still held sound for the vast majority of Belorussian peasants in early NEP . |
| 23 | That is why we feel justified in saying that Realism has held sway for the last forty years . |
| 24 | Then it was discovered that the packages held instructions for a local firm 's staff on a ‘ development exercise ’ . |
| 25 | Dressed like a clergyman all his life , his own chemist , architect , engineer , and manager , Gamble held patents for the improved manufacture of bleaching powder , a process for the concentration of sulphuric acid , and a saltcake furnace . |
| 26 | The most widely held reason for the decline in Keynesianism was its supposed inability to explain the historically high rates of inflation which occurred in Europe and North America from the late 1960s onwards . |
| 27 | Leeds University library only held records for the period from 1982 to 1986 . |
| 28 | I wandered among the stone cleithan above the village , and imagined them hanging with sides of mutton and gannets , or perhaps some of them held hay for the animals or peat for burning . |
| 29 | In Belgium the clerical party won the 1880 elections and held power for the next twenty-five years , repealing an earlier secularization of education and making instruction in the Roman Catholic faith obligatory in all publicly maintained schools in 1895 . |
| 30 | Carlos Manuel Castillo , 61 , an economist representing the social democratic National Liberation Party ( PLN ) which had held power for the past eight years , came second with 47.3 per cent . |