Example sentences of "hold [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This catalogue is used to check the books that the library holds on a particular subject . |
| 2 | Indeed , at first glance this does not look a very compelling book : it holds to a strong version of the Whorf-Sapir hypothesis ; it contains extended discussions of those perennial seminar heroes Lok and Benjy from Golding 's The Inheritors and Faulkner 's The Sound and the Fury respectively ; and there is a dutiful chapter on gender . |
| 3 | Even at the same time as it publicly commends higher education , seeking out the graduate entrant , spending large sums on publicity to this end , and funding access to degree courses on scholarships , it also holds to a central ethic of distrust of the academic . |
| 4 | Hold for a slow count of 4 . |
| 5 | We are interested in the relationship between studying a subject , and students ' sense of identity : the way in which the beliefs we hold about an academic discipline affect our sense of who we are . |
| 6 | However , Fujitsu reckons its Unix UXP/M systems business now accounts for 60% of worldwide sales , whilst its proprietary MSP-based VP systems hold onto a dwindling 40% stake . |
| 7 | Look , just hold on a wee minute . |
| 8 | hold on a wee second here , just one second , where 's Ruby 's number ? |
| 9 | BUY on a Labour win or a hung parliament says Panmure Gordon at 580p ( now 540p ) and HOLD on a Conservative win . |
| 10 | As the door closed , Zen let out a breath he realized he had been holding for a long time . |
| 11 | I kicked off my boots and swung down below , holding onto a bared crossbeam that creaked with threat , swinging from one hand while I tried to see Harry and not land on top of him . |
| 12 | But I am holding in a dead zone . |
| 13 | as I was holding on a particular images and create and then become those energy |
| 14 | Merchant bank Morgan Grenfell rose 16p to 406p , with suggestions resurfacing that insurance broker Willis Faber had sold its 20.5 per cent holding to a Continental predator . |
| 15 | ‘ When he did so , he would have been holding to an instinctive belief that the signal behind him would inevitably have gone to red . |
| 16 | This implication does not hold for a normative-explanatory account . |
| 17 | Yet what applies to a rat or dog need not hold for a human being . |
| 18 | In 1331 Ralph Neville was appointed to that office , and several of his descendants secured a like appointment , culminating in the grant in 1443 to Richard Neville , Earl of Gloucester , of the northern Forest justiceship to hold as an hereditary office for himself and ‘ the heirs male of his body ’ , with certain Forest rents and revenues and ‘ power to appoint at will all foresters and officers in Inglewood Forest ’ . |
| 19 | The connection between the circumstance and the smell was fundamentally unlike the connection which we take to hold between a causal circumstance and its effect . |
| 20 | Their tails wiggle furiously like suckling piglets in their effort to hold against a current many times bigger than them . |
| 21 | Schmeichel failed to hold onto a weak 19th minute shot by Chelsea 's Steve Clarke , and Gavin Peacock prodded home the rebound for his third goal of the season . |
| 22 | But in order to try to keep some of America 's weaker carriers in the air he has decided to increase the limit on the stake a foreign investor can hold in an American airline from 25% to 49% . |
| 23 | On a shelf was a pebble that had been polished by running water ; it was ovoid , a piece of granite about big enough to hold in a clenched fist ; a seam of quartz halved it on the diagonal . |
| 24 | Conservatives thus hold what must appear , to those who do not hold to a conservative position , to be a distorted conception of what he was about . |
| 25 | Yet still it appears impossible to discover the ownership of shares held through a minor Swiss bank which were used to help a second division British company build up stakes in several third division British companies . |
| 26 | What seemed to be a simple matter when merely held as a mental question , verbally unframed and with no thought given to response , appears as a simply impossible problem when it has actually to be put down on paper . |
| 27 | This treatment would appear to be in accordance with FRS 1 , which states that ‘ the cash flows included in investing activities are those related [ our italics ] to the acquisition and disposal of any asset held as a fixed asset or a current asset investment ’ ( para 24 ) . |
| 28 | After two months in prison , I heard the first news about why I was being held as a political prisoner . |
| 29 | The data is held as a two-dimensional array , each row representing a part in which each of the columns containing various data about the parts . |
| 30 | It had long been held as a general axiom — quite incorrectly , as Catalonian experience showed — that entail caused a régime of short , unstable leases and once again stood at the head of the estorbos , the impediments to progress . |