Example sentences of "hold [adj] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Starting downwind and with lots of speed , roll inverted and hold this for a moment ( consult the judges of your particular contest for advice on how long a ‘ moment ’ is ) with zero , or slight negative pitch . |
| 2 | Can you hold that for a mo ? |
| 3 | The same ought to hold true for a disk drive or whatever , as long as the chassis into which it plugs remains the same . |
| 4 | After he had been held incommunicado for a month his family were allowed to visit him and found him in good health . |
| 5 | ( Import restrictions , held responsible for a fall in the country 's external trade deficit , reported on Jan. 15 , were understood to have contributed substantially to the scarcity of industrial raw materials and capital goods . ) |
| 6 | Subsequently , in 1899 , Carter was offered the position of Inspector General of Antiquities for Upper Egypt , but his post with the Egyptian Antiquities service came to an abrupt end when he was held responsible for a near diplomatic incident in which disgruntled French tourists assaulted some guards at a site . |
| 7 | But this same culture and family system is held responsible for a widespread pathology supposedly afflicting ‘ Asian ’ girls and thus also their education : the malaise of being ‘ caught between two cultures ’ , an ‘ identity crisis ’ , a form of individual splitting between two essentialized cultural forms , ‘ Asian ’ and ‘ British/Western ’ . |
| 8 | Secondly , the deregulation and expansion of financial activity generally , have been held responsible for a sharp fall in velocity since 1981 . |
| 9 | The Supreme Court in Kinshasa passed sentence on May 16 on eight of those held responsible for a massacre by troops at Lubumbashi University in May 1990 [ see p. 37553 ] . |
| 10 | The LTTE was held responsible for a car bomb in the capital , Colombo , which killed 11 people , a bus bomb in Ampara which killed 25 , and ambushes near Trincomalee and Batticaloa where 20 people were killed . |
| 11 | November 17 was also held responsible for a bomb attack on a tax office on Nov. 30 ( the third in two weeks ) , coinciding with the presentation of the budget in parliament . |
| 12 | Before lapsing into a coma Suzanne , who had left home after a row with her stepfather , told rescuers she had been held captive for a week . |
| 13 | At common law the employer did not guarantee the safety of the equipment and could not be held liable for a latent defect in it . |