Example sentences of "hold [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | BATTERED AND BRUISED IRISH Mick Galwey holds firm as the All Black pack — with no.8 Arran Pene to the fore here — fails to click in Dunedin during the First Test . |
| 2 | This distinction of style holds good for the whole of Greek art … " |
| 3 | Erm , nor I think are there any proposals to change the grading or pay honorarium to P As to reflect there work on these files , er , I 'm not sure whether the assumption that this would n't be taken into account by the W R is sound , because I think one of the principles that I recall was that he were meant to ensure that that each of these job evaluation panels had somebody from each office so that an account could be taken of the different practices , I mean I 'm sure that , I 'm sure that each of the three offices in the er deal with things in a different way , so that er what gets done by one person here is not necessarily done by people in Coventry and York , and that in fa in London , and that also holds good in the other way , I think . |
| 4 | Thus although the sociolinguistic profile " High : Standard English/Low : Creole " holds good throughout the ex-British Caribbean almost without exception , we need to make a distinction between those places where the majority speak a Creole with English-derived vocabulary , and those where most or some of the populace speak a Creole with French-derived vocabulary . |
| 5 | The same holds true about the plasma concentrations which , although they were determined by a new ELISA , were within the same range ( 70–350 ng/mL ) in responsive patients from Cameroon and the Congo as in non-responsive patients from the Congo . |
| 6 | The same holds true for the other offering : Electronic Forms designer , which combines the facilities of Microsoft 's Visual Basic with Microsoft Mail ( or , it is claimed , any other MAPI-compliant electronic mail package ) to produce an intelligent forms construction kit . |
| 7 | The same holds true for the Church . |
| 8 | The same holds true for the three P.wickerhamii introns . |
| 9 | The same holds true of the new wave of talent highlighted here , though one or two are committed to working with building-based companies . |
| 10 | The outcome was a victory for marketing , because it proves that what applies in the world of packaged goods holds true in the world of politics . |
| 11 | ( 1982 ) have argued that resources will be allocated efficiently ( in the sense that prices will be equal to marginal costs ) in industries which are perfectly contestable and that this result holds irrespective of the number of firms in the industry . |
| 12 | Because some of the volunteers subsequently joined my slimming and exercise classes which I hold weekly at the Holiday Inn in Leicester , I was able to hear first hand the kind of encouraging comments which only served to confirm what I was seeing with my eyes as each week passed . |
| 13 | By holding firm on the divisive issue of the ‘ comb-out ’ , while making substantial concessions on the food question , the Cabinet successfully outfaced the shop stewards ' movement . |
| 14 | As far as discs are concerned , prices will vary widely but we can reasonably assume an average of £15 in 1995 holding steady throughout the decade . |
| 15 | The preference for the parent-child relationship as a source of routine moral and emotional support seems to hold good for the white majority , but perhaps less so for people with different ethnic cultural backgrounds . |
| 16 | The Longfellows solid array of red T-shirts with a logo ‘ Simply The Best ’ unfortunately did n't hold good at the heels of the hunt . |
| 17 | I consider that this must also hold good for the right of establishment : in order for a national of a member state to be eligible to be regarded as exercising his right of establishment in another member state , it is not enough that he should be operating a fishing vessel registered in that state ; in addition , his activity must have other links with the territory of that State . |
| 18 | This will hold good for the more regularly used applications . |
| 19 | These identifications will not hold good throughout the poem , precisely because the two poets were so intimate , and would remain so : each could and did ‘ internalize , the other , in the sense that within Yeats there was a voice that spoke the sentiments of Pound , and within Pound a voice that spoke like Yeats . |
| 20 | Not only do they hold good against the trustee himself , and against his creditors during his life-time and his representatives after his death , but also against all to whom he may have transferred the property , and who can not show that they acquired it for value and without notice of the trust . |
| 21 | Family religion forged bonds which , it was hoped , would hold firm through the valley of death . |
| 22 | She accepted the farewells of her parents and brothers as if in a dream : her real self seemed to hold aloof from the tearful embraces of her mother , the kisses of her brothers , and her father 's last loving hug before she stepped into the boat to be rowed out across the harbour . |
| 23 | That 's an issue he 'd surely hold close between the two of them as long as he thought no absolute harm had come of it . |
| 24 | Whether that will hold true across the country remains to be seen . |
| 25 | If this percentage potential could be considered to hold true outside the USA , we would certainly have to ask of the great majority of congregations , ‘ What has happened to your ten per cent ? ’ |
| 26 | If so , was the muddle caused by a fallacy of composition , illegitimately assuming that what held true in the small continued to hold true in the large ? |
| 27 | absorbency both in order to take up cosmetics and cleansing agents , and a the same time to hold sufficient of the cleansing agents whilst they are being applied . |
| 28 | Everywhere else the ground was held solid under the rain by the vast grip of the vegetation which had so rapidly sprung up . |
| 29 | They should have held solid at the bridge . ’ |
| 30 | A pianist plays here several nights a week and from 15 June to 15 September a discotheque is held weekly near the swimming pool . |