Example sentences of "hold most [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are three main natural regions in Switzerland , the Jura in the north with an average altitude of 750 metres and a swathe of coniferous forest ; the Swiss Plateau which averages 580 metres , holds most of the Swiss population and its cities and extends from Switzerland 's largest lake , Geneva , to Lake Constance in the East ; then there is the Swiss Alps which cover 60% of the country 's land area , have an average altitude of 1,700 metres with more than 100 summits topping the 4,000 metre mark . |
| 2 | This will involve new taxes and a cut in subsidies , including the huge fertiliser subsidy regarded as critical in the farming areas that hold most of the voters . |
| 3 | There is much to suggest that the attitudes of society towards sexual offences , particularly the attitudes of many men ( who hold most of the leading posts in the making of policy and law ) , have tended to undervalue the seriousness of sexual assaults . |
| 4 | Inevitably the Americans hold most of the aces in this technology , controlling 85 per cent of the £100m worldwide market for GaAs integrated circuitry . |
| 5 | There is , basically , a class conflict in which the owners hold most of the cards . |
| 6 | Even if we 're not being followed , Matilda 's men hold most of the castles in this part of the country . |
| 7 | In practice this boils down to the governments being saddled with the bulk of the foreign hard currency debts , while it is private individuals in those same countries who hold most of the hard-currency assets . |
| 8 | Abu Nidal 's Palestinian extremist group , which maintains a close association with the Shia Muslim Hizbollah holding most of the Western hostages in Lebanon , is the most likely culprit . |
| 9 | Islamic Jihad , an underground faction of the pro-Iranian radical Shia Hezbollah organization , was believed to be holding most of the Western hostages . |
| 10 | James Matthews , our reporter in Jordan says it appears the pro-Iranian group thought to be holding most of the hostages , Hezbalar is ready to end its demands for a prisoner exchange . |
| 11 | He not only designed and tested his own planes but , for a time , held most of the air speed records as well as the land speed record . |
| 12 | His birthplace was the town castle , a stronghold of the Borromeo family that held most of the western shoreline , as well as the castle of Angera on the opposite shore . |
| 13 | For the moment the Republic held most of the north coast , Catalonia , Minorca , and the greater part of southern Spain . |
| 14 | Within England too there was a heavy concentration : the party held most of the seats in the Home Counties , Wessex , the West and the West Midlands ; just over half in London , the East and the North-west ; well under half in the East Midlands and North . |
| 15 | In this case Brightman J decided that trustees who held most of the shares in a company were negligent when they failed to prevent the directors of the company from entering into a highly speculative property development project , which turned out to be unsuccessful . |
| 16 | Variable and strong low-level winds held most of the individual smoke plumes below an altitude of 3–4 km within a few hundred kilometres of their oilfield sources . |
| 17 | I could see the holes and the little piles and scatters of droppings , and I could see the gorse bushes on the far slope above the bank which held most of the holes , where the rabbit-runs snaked tiny paths like jagged tunnels through the bushes , but there was no sign of the animals themselves . |
| 18 | Although Mr Lamont has been staying in the Imperial Hotel with the rest of the Cabinet , he has held most of the talks in more down-market hotels along the Promenade . |