Example sentences of "hold [adj] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor would the suggestion of a derivational link to a noun hold good for an associative use of young rather common in advertisements : ( 14 ) the young place to go young clothes the young thing to do Another thing to emphasize is that what we are considering does not depend on a change of sense in the adjective ; in some cases , certainly , the shift from ascription to association or vice versa may be accompanied by or compatible with such a lexical change ; but this may happen equally in cases of classical structural ambiguity , such as : ( 15 ) Charles will give a talk on the village green where two different senses of on are called upon , as one shifts from the one structure to the other . |
| 2 | The same ought to hold true for a disk drive or whatever , as long as the chassis into which it plugs remains the same . |
| 3 | After he had been held incommunicado for a month his family were allowed to visit him and found him in good health . |
| 4 | ( Import restrictions , held responsible for a fall in the country 's external trade deficit , reported on Jan. 15 , were understood to have contributed substantially to the scarcity of industrial raw materials and capital goods . ) |
| 5 | Subsequently , in 1899 , Carter was offered the position of Inspector General of Antiquities for Upper Egypt , but his post with the Egyptian Antiquities service came to an abrupt end when he was held responsible for a near diplomatic incident in which disgruntled French tourists assaulted some guards at a site . |
| 6 | But this same culture and family system is held responsible for a widespread pathology supposedly afflicting ‘ Asian ’ girls and thus also their education : the malaise of being ‘ caught between two cultures ’ , an ‘ identity crisis ’ , a form of individual splitting between two essentialized cultural forms , ‘ Asian ’ and ‘ British/Western ’ . |
| 7 | Secondly , the deregulation and expansion of financial activity generally , have been held responsible for a sharp fall in velocity since 1981 . |
| 8 | The Supreme Court in Kinshasa passed sentence on May 16 on eight of those held responsible for a massacre by troops at Lubumbashi University in May 1990 [ see p. 37553 ] . |
| 9 | The LTTE was held responsible for a car bomb in the capital , Colombo , which killed 11 people , a bus bomb in Ampara which killed 25 , and ambushes near Trincomalee and Batticaloa where 20 people were killed . |
| 10 | November 17 was also held responsible for a bomb attack on a tax office on Nov. 30 ( the third in two weeks ) , coinciding with the presentation of the budget in parliament . |
| 11 | If a section was held responsible for an offence ( as it was if someone outside the section was offended ) the victims would hold the section responsible ; but even though the section shaikh made the peace , he had no power to collect from the lineages in his section : he had to get the agreement of the lineage shaikhs , and they then collected from their members . |
| 12 | A tenant could be held responsible for an absentee landlord , in the same way that a married couple and partners living together as husband and wife will be responsible for each other . |
| 13 | Sir Edward Woodville , the queen 's brother , was Admiral of the Fleet ; and the Marquis of Dorset , the queen 's elder son by her first marriage , was Constable of the Tower of London which housed the deceased king 's treasure and the vast store of armaments held ready for an invasion of France . |
| 14 | Before lapsing into a coma Suzanne , who had left home after a row with her stepfather , told rescuers she had been held captive for a week . |
| 15 | At common law the employer did not guarantee the safety of the equipment and could not be held liable for a latent defect in it . |