Example sentences of "hold [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A similar relationship holds between the prices of futures contracts with different delivery months : where P f 1 = current price of futures contract with delivery in year T 1 , P f 2 = current price of futures contract with delivery in year T 2 ( T 1 < T 2 ) . |
| 2 | Only it holds onto the hairs so much that it rips them out so that you end up with legs with no hairs on it but ah ! |
| 3 | We support its major industries and way of life , while recognising the place it holds in the hearts of those who live in towns . |
| 4 | The second case concerns a somewhat lesser man : Guillaume-Sanche de Pommiers , damoiseau , who spoke on behalf of his two co-heirs and co-seigneurs , pierre and Pierre-Amanieu de Pommiers , when he acknowledged that they ‘ held in fee , immediately from the … king of England , lord of Ireland and duke of Aquitaine , the castle of Pommiers with the honour , and all that these co-heirs hold in the parishes of Morizès and Escaude , and at Tremblet , and the toll which they levy on land at Garges , near La Réole ’ . |
| 5 | what they hold on the shoulders |
| 6 | There are as many linguistic ‘ cues to coherence ’ ( a concept to be discussed in detail in Chapter 6 ) holding between the pairs of sentences : |
| 7 | Grass is not her favourite surface and there were many who thought she would have great difficulty holding off the challenges of Steffi Graf , Martina Navratilova or Gabriela Sabatini . |
| 8 | After some months , the baby learns to walk along branches by holding onto the hairs of its mother 's rump . |
| 9 | The party reacted with unnecessary embarrassment and defensiveness to government attacks on general talks it has been holding with the Greens , and its desire , as part of its traditional Ostpolitik , to press on with contacts with the Communist party in East Berlin despite the sudden surge of open opposition to the government by East German citizens . |
| 10 | I think that the House needs to know whether he will abolish fund holding in the teeth of opposition from virtually every GP and from the British Medical Association . |
| 11 | The ceasefire agreement nevertheless appeared to be holding in the corridors , at least up to the final week of February , and there had still been no reports of any serious breaches of the Rome agreement . |
| 12 | If you have kept the elastic stretched enough you should be able to now lift your restraining thumb and use two hands to wrap the elastic round and round , working up to the eye and past it , holding in the lapels firmly under the stretched elastic . |
| 13 | The tenant entering under a void lease became by virtue of possession and the payment of a yearly rent , a yearly tenant holding on the terms of the agreement so far as those terms were consistent with the yearly tenancy . |
| 14 | At the time of King William 's visit in 1861 , Prussian policy had been simply that of holding to the treaties of 1815 with no thought of altering the status quo . |
| 15 | The frugivores seem to have wider ‘ niches ’ in rain forests than elsewhere , but the converse theory that the habitat lends itself to finer division into niches seems to hold for the carnivores . |
| 16 | Tip three tonight is Abbey View Margo in race seven , trap two ; well drawn , she can hold off the threats of trap one , Vera May . |
| 17 | She prepared for bed in haste , then got into bed without turning off the bedside lamp , willing the friendly glow to hold off the dreams which came with the night . |
| 18 | If I move as privately as possible , it is to hold off the fools and rogues until the thing has a chance of success . |
| 19 | The only team to hold off the accounts onslaught seems to be the well-respected Streatham team who drubbed them 5:1 before Christmas , though accounts admittedly had an under par team . |
| 20 | Half the men were already straggling back into the Residency building or into the hospital in order to form a new position while the remainder did their best to hold off the sepoys who were already swarming over the ramparts . |
| 21 | There was no guarantee that it would lead to a new deal for the industry nor that , even as a compromise , it would hold against the tensions of a situation in which one side at least seemed determined to continue on a collision course . |
| 22 | This is not only the case when a discourse is constructed by two people interacting face to face ; it may also hold within the words of a single speaker . |
| 23 | Therefore , a transfer from the husband to husband and wife " to hold upon the trusts of a declaration of trust of even date " may be rejected by the registrar , for its wording puts him on notice of a trust the terms of which he does not know . |
| 24 | They swarmed like lice over the camp , and there was a battle being waged at the boat which men were trying to push out of the shallows whilst others held off the beasts . |
| 25 | Colchester only scored six points in the first set but held off the Nomads for more than 27 minutes thanks to solid defence . |
| 26 | A public discussion was held between the groups , the designers explaining how the machines would work . |
| 27 | Usually , this is mounted on a block of wood , which can be fixed to a bench or held between the knees . |
| 28 | Note the bowed head and lowered tail , held between the legs . |
| 29 | At a ceilidh held for the Ukrainians at Seamill on the Monday evening , Pru Williams again excelled herself translating the name of the band , Chanty Dyke , and even managed to explain ‘ Holy Willie 's Prayer ’ as Jimmy Conn recited it . |
| 30 | A reception will be held for the runners and their supporters at the English Wine Centre . |