Example sentences of "hold out [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charlton have Pates back in their defence but after seven League matches without a win can not hold out much hope of getting off the bottom this afternoon . |
| 2 | When Topaz arrived at the residence of Lord Oswin Lovat she did n't hold out much hope of prising his purse open . |
| 3 | She had only three members of her immediate family left in Bosnia but did not hold out much hope of getting them out . |
| 4 | ‘ The London business is available for sale but I do n't hold out much hope of finding a buyer . ’ |
| 5 | Increased reliance on Moscow may now hold out much prospect of improvement in growth , productivity or living standards , but intra-bloc trade at least offers assured markets , predictable performance benchmarks , and the kind of long-term trading agreements which are the staple of central planning and of central planners . |
| 6 | IT IS arguable that successive British Governments , although paying lip service from time to time to the notion of being able to change the institutions of the EEC ‘ from within ’ , have never in reality held out much hope of doing so ; rather , perhaps , has it been their true intent to use the institutions of the EEC to shape the policy of Europe in their own image . |