Example sentences of "hold [adj] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This compilation , mostly recorded recently , despite an inevitably dated feel , holds all the usual advantages and disadvantages of the genre : a mild manner , a certain tricksiness , a breezy cool , a little too chilled . |
| 2 | The church may however avoid tax by a relatively straightforward — and well tried — method , which involves establishing a trading company ( Tradeco ) in which the church holds all the issued share capital . |
| 3 | Next , I would like to thank John for his support and encouragement I 'd like to mention Carole who has always been there when I 've needed At this point who again has always been very supportive I also want to thank members of the regional both past and present , but particularly I 'd like to thank all the regional officers and staff for their assistance and particularly George , Hugh and the officer I would also like to thank regional political officer for the Midlands and East Coast we now hold all the major positions of the Labour Party with I would also like to thank the national food and leisure committee for their help and support and particularly to David , Nick and To conclude , President , I 'd like to express my sincere thanks and love to those important people around me , my family . |
| 4 | In other words , holding constant the controlled domain , hierarchy increases as authorized decision-making becomes more concentrated amongst people in an organization . |
| 5 | And then we were held up at a place because some of our tanks e e the seventy ninth armoured division was er holding all the special tanks er which were flamethrowers and flails and all these sort of things . |
| 6 | The brilliant spell of weather was still holding good the following morning . |
| 7 | He says they would still hold all the Liberal Deomcrat strongholds in the South . |
| 8 | It will hold all the excess line you are ever likely to need , and its very concept of reeling will preserve the line from those snarls we mentioned earlier , because the line has little option but to reel back in the same form as it was reeled out . |
| 9 | There is the difficulty of finding a big enough storage medium to hold all the required data and there is the problem of retrieving large volumes of data from the storage medium fast enough to update the screen for moving information . |
| 10 | You do n't even have to take your fucking clothes off , darling , I want to hold all the hurt away . |
| 11 | Thus it is that the extraction of the origin of the first fragment of ‘ goodness ’ and the indelibly labelling of it as such , led to the creation of an entity with a presumed existence and endowed by mankind with the power to hold inviolate the human decisions on ‘ goodness ’ — which will continue to be taken for as long as life continues . |
| 12 | 9.3 To that intent and save and subject as aforesaid , the receiving Party undertakes to indemnify and hold harmless the supplying Party against all or any loss , damage , liability , costs , claims and demands ( whether direct , consequential or otherwise ) arising out of or in connection with the use made by the Receiving Party of any such technical information whether the liability claim be in contract or in tort and whether the same arises directly or by way of any claim for an indemnity contribution or otherwise and irrespective of whether or not the same was in consequence of the negligence of any person . |
| 13 | The CP won the seat from the NP with a majority of just over 3,000 votes and now held half the parliamentary seats of the Free State — an NP stronghold until 1989 . |
| 14 | If control factors 1 and 2 are held constant the three-dimensional shape then developed in that part of their range can be drawn as in Figure 15.2 . |
| 15 | And then , for ten , twenty , forty hours or so the millions sit back to watch the show as the huge tropical storm lashes and bursts and howls its way around the islands , shaking , shuddering and drenching the place as if it held all the concentrated fury of nature and had decided to unleash it upon this one unfortunate spot . |
| 16 | I liked to hear the verse , and enjoyed declaiming it , but only if there was no one to hear me , for I knew that my voice held all the fine cadences of Sir Tom himself . |
| 17 | Because she had spent much of that day watching her mother supervise preparations for the traditional Gio ceremony observed by the family on each anniversary of her great-grandfather 's death , Lan knew the altar held all the favourite foods and beverages that the high-ranking courtier had enjoyed during his lifetime . |
| 18 | My mother … held all the conventional opinions a person was obliged to have , but then her unconscious personality would suddenly put in an appearance . |
| 19 | Breeze , fairly dancing with excitement , held open the wrought-iron gate which was so exactly in keeping with the rest of the cottage . |