Example sentences of "hold [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cut the loaf into about 12 slices , making sure that it still holds together at the base . |
| 2 | This connection between high status employment work and present dissatisfaction with housework holds only for the middle-class women , but there is evidence that the tendency to be dissatisfied with housework in relation to the status of one 's previous job may involve the question of a ‘ reference group ’ . |
| 3 | Gael , who is not religious , holds only with the first half of the double limerick according to which existence depends on being the object of another 's perception . |
| 4 | Again , this view is related to Pius XI 's , as expressed in Divini Illius Magistri : ‘ The family holds directly from the Creator the mission and hence the rights to educate the offspring , a right inalienable because inseparably joined to the strict obligation , a right anterior to any right whatever of civil society and of the State … ’ ( 1929 : 14 ) . |
| 5 | Moore is also the man who holds fixedly to the belief that it is solely because he lives in a Labour borough that his pavements have broken and cracked paving-stones . |
| 6 | Many studies have shown a relationship between serum cholesterol levels and ischaemic heart disease ( Keys , 1970 ; Kannel et al , 1971 ; Wilhelmsen et al , 1973 ; Rosenman et al , 1976 ; Kannel et al , 1979 ) , and this relationship holds even within the normal range of serum cholesterol concentration . |
| 7 | The same type of relation holds however between the having present and the realization of the purpose for which the examiners were present in ( 7a ) as between the existence of obligation and the realization of the object of obligation in ( 1a ) . |
| 8 | It makes it all the more important that , as a country , we hold fast to the alliance and to the policies which have stood us — and the cause of peace in Europe — in such good stead for so long . |
| 9 | The brief silence seemed to stretch down the long room and hold fast by the pillars of the door , and every eye in the hall fixed greedily on the three at the high table . |
| 10 | In 1547 , after the English victory over the Scots at Pinkie , Huntly was to say ‘ I hold well with the marriage , but I like not this wooing ’ . |
| 11 | Small entrepreneurs in Japan hold tenaciously to the ideals of self-help and dedication to the work ethic , but it is not at all clear that their presence in the small firm sector is entirely based on free choice . |
| 12 | The most likely explanation is that these creatures are a form of large sea-cow , though monster-watchers around the world still hold firmly to the view that the ancient loch is home to a family of plesiosaurs , a remnant of the Mesozoic era . |
| 13 | After the fourth session of the Hague peace conference on Sept. 26 , attended by the Foreign Ministers of all the republics , Lord Carrington said that the ceasefire seemed to be holding sufficiently for the conference to carry on and to accelerate its work . |
| 14 | When she was not holding forth on the almighty Telscombes , or the glories of Virginia , Miss Beard had little to say ; and Ruth was in no mood to talk . |
| 15 | These modest words come from Swindelli ( below , white jacket ) , vocalist/rapper with The 25th Of May , who is animatedly holding forth on the merits of the band 's neatly titled debut LP ‘ Lenin And McCarthy ’ . |
| 16 | The Brigadier , a little flushed with good wine , was holding forth about the qualities of modern officers . |
| 17 | Sitting on a carved stool on the hearthrug , holding forth like the Ancient Mariner , Haverford was bringing some long anecdote to a conclusion . |
| 18 | However , this morning Beth Christie was brighter than usual ; she planned to shop for the dinner party she was holding later in the week . |
| 19 | ‘ Saving our skins , ’ she said holding fast to the plans that begged to be told , because there still was n't enough time . |
| 20 | Downstairs Mrs Diggory , holding fast to the protesting Hector 's collar , smiled to herself with grim satisfaction , and went off to the kitchen . |
| 21 | He went down the stairs , holding tight to the bannisters and swaying slightly . |
| 22 | This coalition must hold together in the post-war settlement and resist the siren voices calling for a huge re-arming of the region . |
| 23 | ‘ But they will lose their reason , ’ says Peter Verkhovensky 's lieutenant when Peter has argued that the quintet will hold together after the murder ‘ unless they 've lost their reason ’ . |
| 24 | If anyone was to blame , it was the anti-drugs policy of successive governments , and especially president Richard Nixon 's , but that 's another talking point on which he would hold forth at the drop of a hat . |
| 25 | He either could go for the vital boundary himself , or back his and his partner 's ability to hold fast for the remaining three overs and also gather the runs as insurance . |
| 26 | In the last few years , however , it has emerged that the laws of science may hold even at the beginning of the universe . |
| 27 | In that case the laws of physics would hold even at the beginning of the universe , so God would not have had the freedom to choose the initial conditions . |
| 28 | Scruton offers us an articulate perspective on the attractions of conservatism for those who , fearing social change and the future , try to hold firmly onto the past . |
| 29 | When a [ makonde ] sculptor departs from the stereotype [ … $ this is nearly always because an element of doubt or defiance has been worked into it ; a madonna is given a demon to hold instead of the Christ Child ; a priest is represented with the feet of a wild animal , a pietà becomes a study not of sorrow but of revenge , with the mother raising a spear over the body of her dead son . |
| 30 | The dog refused to budge , so , instructing the two older girls to hold tight to the younger , I heaved up the 196lb of stubborn fur and staggered to the railing I went down to extricate my struggling son and carried him upwards followed by shrieking pleas of , ‘ Daddy , do n't leave us ’ and ‘ I want a carry ’ , from the frantic tadpole in charge of two red-faced little girls who were now starting to show signs of stain and filling tear-ducts . |