Example sentences of "hold out [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a secular society , where death no longer holds out hope of an after-life and heaven , the quality of the life we know we have has assumed an importance previously given to the life of the soul . |
| 2 | It is difficult to put forward a programme which holds out hope of a better life when you have singularly failed to live up to your promises during your term of office . |
| 3 | It is because they substitute half-baked faith for genuine effort and hold out promises of intervention in the world 's affairs on payment . |
| 4 | Altogether a fine series , well executed and holding out promise of more good things to come . |
| 5 | Interventions by them during the Ulster crisis had been limited , in the main , to generalities about building bridges across Christian divisions and holding out hands of friendship . |
| 6 | There is an element of despair in the public 's reaction to the apparent spread of the disease , though the current political and moral debate about crime in general may hold out hope of an antidote . |
| 7 | It seemed to hold out hopes of relief for Scottish businesses — and lawyers themselves . |
| 8 | First , Franco still held out hope of a late Axis victory , believing — astonishingly — that Hitler possessed and would soon deploy secret weapons and " cosmic rays " . |
| 9 | When the young men , released from silence , were not talking about ‘ shows ’ in London — which , as their only excursion into permissiveness held out vistas of slightly forbidden enjoyments — they commented with a kind of awe on the ardour of devotion which Eliot was Seen to display at Mass . |
| 10 | The government appointed by Djohar in March held out hopes of national reconciliation . |