Example sentences of "the [noun] hold the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The porter holds the car door as if restraining a very strong , young Galapagos tortoise from doing what it pleases . |
| 2 | sends her sincere thanks to for giving them the opportunity to hold the ball . |
| 3 | He made a bit of eight inch wire , like er a U piece , and the bar at , bottom bar of the U held the tail so if the springs broke the tails did n't duck under and smash the cam . |
| 4 | The board holds the funds in escrow for five years , during which it releases amounts only for attorney 's fees , and in some cases , for expenses incurred in earning the literary income . |
| 5 | The question is whether there would be a sufficient merging of interest between , for instance , the anti-American stance of the French , the Central European posture of the Germans , the Mediterranean outlook of the Greeks and the mercantile perspective of the British for there to be a cohesive common position sufficient to enable the Parliament to hold the executive bodies accountable . |
| 6 | So it has been held that a provision in a statute that regulations made under the statute will take effect as if enacted in the statute ( that is , they will be unchallengeable as if they were made by Parliament ) does not prevent the courts holding the regulation to be ultra vires . |
| 7 | The computer holds the microprograms in what is normally referred to as a control store . |
| 8 | On Sept. 28 Security Minister Mensan Agbeyome Kodjo announced the results of the referendum held the previous day , stating that 99.09 per cent of votes cast had been in favour of constitutional change . |
| 9 | The faction still wanting their own building on the workhouse grounds continued to press their case , but were finally defeated by the local government board , which raised serious objections concerning the terms on which the guardians held the land and the details of the proposed building . |
| 10 | The decision to hold the event is another fillip for disabled sport in this country following last month 's announcement that the World Dressage Championships will be staged at Hartpury College , near Gloucester , in July 1994 . |
| 11 | The decision to hold the Conference in Berlin was reached in Washington four years ago . |
| 12 | The decision to hold the elections eight months before they were constitutionally due increased speculation that the aged President was preparing to transfer power to his son . |
| 13 | The decision to hold the referendum , part of a package of resolutions concerning the draft constitution , had been passed on May 28 by 198 votes to 29 with 37 abstentions . |
| 14 | The decision to hold the elections was approved by the National Assembly on July 16 . |
| 15 | But Dr Jaleel , who will represent Darlington , said the decision to hold the conference was made six months ago and was not about politics . |
| 16 | He said the decision to hold the meeting in North Wales demonstrated the Americans ' commitment to the area . |
| 17 | The gang holding the hoses stayed back . |
| 18 | The Almoravids held the south firmly . |
| 19 | For hollow walls , you can get special plastic boxes with ‘ wings ’ which open up behind the plasterboard to hold the box in place . |
| 20 | DULLER THAN dishwater factionalised account of the Kennedy assassination as seen from the perspective of Texan club-owner/Mafia associate Jack Ruby , Danny Aiello — a reliable supporting actor — does n't have the presence to hold the lead role , but that 's the least of the movie 's problems with its mix of fantastic coincidence and dreary atmosphere . |
| 21 | The way in which the male holds the female in amplexus differs between species , but the spadefoot male holds his female around her waist . |
| 22 | A neutral eyewitness reported that the building holding the stores of planks , pitch and cordage was entirely destroyed , while of the 600 shells which had fallen in the town 100 had landed on the basin and harbour . |
| 23 | One section of the building holds the Marino Marini Museum , a collection of the art — sculpture , paintings and drawings — of the artist who completed the courtyard entrance work . |
| 24 | There was no real future for the Irish in Ireland while the country was divided and people like the Arbuthnots held the land and the power in actuality . |
| 25 | When applying a varnish , the brush should be dipped into it for about one-third of the length of the bristles and then , holding the brush in a similar way to a pencil , with the fingers holding the metal ferrule and the handle resting between the thumb and first finger , spread the varnish quickly and evenly over a small area . |
| 26 | When the book is closed , the cords hold the papers tightly and there is little chance of tearing . |
| 27 | As companion to the DFD of Figure 3 , there is an E-R diagram in Figure 4 to show the relationships between the entities holding the trail information path and pathitem and other entities relevant to trail management . |
| 28 | Sometimes the duchess held the syringe all the way through a play , claiming it prevented her getting a headache in the stuffy theatre . |
| 29 | The man 's trousers snag on the stone and start to come down again , then the branch holding the grating shifts and the iron grid falls down , thumping into the man 's chest . |
| 30 | And then there was these these thick er straw ropes going over and then there were the other which were going sideways along the roof to hold the thatch down . |