Example sentences of "hold [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The economic disaster that has befallen Mongolia over the past two years ( see chart ) has emboldened diehards in the Mongolian People 's Revolutionary Party ( the old communist party ) , which holds 70 of the 76 seats in parliament , to try rolling back reform . |
| 2 | Real concrete problems , such as the fact that Germany is the biggest trading nation in Europe , 50% more populous than France or Britain , that she holds half of the Soviet Union 's debt and has lent more money in government-guaranteed credit to Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union , can not be made to disappear with words . |
| 3 | While central government holds some of the cards , local authorities hold others , more in some areas of responsibility than others . |
| 4 | This upstairs room still holds some of the tailors equipment . |
| 5 | The Earth and the oceans absorb much of the carbon compounds , much of which combines with calcium and magnesium to become limestone , which holds much of the CO 2 . |
| 6 | BATTERED AND BRUISED IRISH Mick Galwey holds firm as the All Black pack — with no.8 Arran Pene to the fore here — fails to click in Dunedin during the First Test . |
| 7 | Swapo holds 41 of the Assembly 's 72 seats , but observers expected its main opponent , the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance ( DTA ) which has 21 seats , to block a Swapo-drafted constitution . |
| 8 | A coalition of the Gaullist RPR and centrist UDF holds 18 of the 45 seats in the Regional Council . |
| 9 | This distinction of style holds good for the whole of Greek art … " |
| 10 | Erm , nor I think are there any proposals to change the grading or pay honorarium to P As to reflect there work on these files , er , I 'm not sure whether the assumption that this would n't be taken into account by the W R is sound , because I think one of the principles that I recall was that he were meant to ensure that that each of these job evaluation panels had somebody from each office so that an account could be taken of the different practices , I mean I 'm sure that , I 'm sure that each of the three offices in the er deal with things in a different way , so that er what gets done by one person here is not necessarily done by people in Coventry and York , and that in fa in London , and that also holds good in the other way , I think . |
| 11 | Thus although the sociolinguistic profile " High : Standard English/Low : Creole " holds good throughout the ex-British Caribbean almost without exception , we need to make a distinction between those places where the majority speak a Creole with English-derived vocabulary , and those where most or some of the populace speak a Creole with French-derived vocabulary . |
| 12 | An attractive young woman who now holds one of the top six positions in an American corporation began as assistant to the chairman and was subjected to many innuendoes about their relationship . |
| 13 | The same holds true about the plasma concentrations which , although they were determined by a new ELISA , were within the same range ( 70–350 ng/mL ) in responsive patients from Cameroon and the Congo as in non-responsive patients from the Congo . |
| 14 | The same holds true for the other offering : Electronic Forms designer , which combines the facilities of Microsoft 's Visual Basic with Microsoft Mail ( or , it is claimed , any other MAPI-compliant electronic mail package ) to produce an intelligent forms construction kit . |
| 15 | The same holds true for the Church . |
| 16 | The same holds true for the three P.wickerhamii introns . |
| 17 | The same holds true of the new wave of talent highlighted here , though one or two are committed to working with building-based companies . |
| 18 | The outcome was a victory for marketing , because it proves that what applies in the world of packaged goods holds true in the world of politics . |
| 19 | While Chancellor Kohl 's CDU-CSU alliance holds 309 of the 652 seats , far more than its closest rivals , the Social Democrats , who have 239 , it could not govern without the support of Hans Dietrich-Genscher 's FDP — which is why Genscher has managed to hold on to the post of Foreign Minister for so long . |
| 20 | There are three main natural regions in Switzerland , the Jura in the north with an average altitude of 750 metres and a swathe of coniferous forest ; the Swiss Plateau which averages 580 metres , holds most of the Swiss population and its cities and extends from Switzerland 's largest lake , Geneva , to Lake Constance in the East ; then there is the Swiss Alps which cover 60% of the country 's land area , have an average altitude of 1,700 metres with more than 100 summits topping the 4,000 metre mark . |
| 21 | ( 1982 ) have argued that resources will be allocated efficiently ( in the sense that prices will be equal to marginal costs ) in industries which are perfectly contestable and that this result holds irrespective of the number of firms in the industry . |
| 22 | ‘ She 's got this whistle thing she holds next to the receiver and it blasts your eardrums out . ’ |
| 23 | The only part of the county where Labour puts up a fight is in Milton Keynes where hold eight of the sixteen seats . |
| 24 | Now you steer a boat with a tiller here at the back and you always hold that in the hand nearest it . |
| 25 | Because some of the volunteers subsequently joined my slimming and exercise classes which I hold weekly at the Holiday Inn in Leicester , I was able to hear first hand the kind of encouraging comments which only served to confirm what I was seeing with my eyes as each week passed . |
| 26 | The trust can then acquire shares in Newco and hold these for the benefit of employees of Newco and Target . |
| 27 | The SDLP currently hold 17 of the 30 seats in the Guildhall chamber . |
| 28 | There could be no clearer indicator of the indifference and contempt in which the Government hold those on the lowest incomes than the Government 's exclusive concern with our tax proposals , without even a glimmer of a mention of those who will benefit from them . |
| 29 | Fast cars do n't complain if you hold tighter as the pace hots up . |
| 30 | This will involve new taxes and a cut in subsidies , including the huge fertiliser subsidy regarded as critical in the farming areas that hold most of the voters . |