Example sentences of "hold up for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is not a model that holds up for the twentieth century , when liberalization of the divorce law was not a matter of last resort but was rather always proposed as a means of strengthening the institution of marriage ( by permitting those ‘ living in sin ’ to remarry ) ; when opinion shifted with dramatic speed , for example between the conservative recommendations of the 1956 Royal Commission on Divorce and the endorsement of profound liberalization given a mere ten years later by both the Law Commission and the Church of England ; and when the change in views of key institutions such as the Church of England were as important as those of lawyers . |
| 2 | Hold up for a count of 10 . |
| 3 | Hold up for a count of 10 . |
| 4 | Hold up for a count of 10 . |
| 5 | Hold up for a count of 10 , relax and repeat . |
| 6 | Would it hold up for the half-minute or so it would take me to drive across ? |
| 7 | Proper planning was held up for a time until the route of the M4 was decided , as an early outline brought it through Harpsden and over Peppard . |
| 8 | The arrival of the Italian soldiers was held up for a time while the Italian government bargained for an Italian to command the UN forces ( the commander is , as it happens , a Brazilian ) . |
| 9 | Then the funeral was held up for a few days , and we soon realised that the effect was indeed cosmetic and nothing more . |
| 10 | We had the G A T talks held up for a lengthy period simply because the French wanted even more cash for agriculture and of course they got it and it 's rather silly when we 're spending two hundred and fifty million pounds a week on dumping and destroying food . |
| 11 | The start of trading on the New York and American Stock Exchanges was held up for an hour yesterday after a fire , caused by an electrical fault , broke out in the building housing the exchanges ' computer systems , writes Mary Brasier in New York . |