Example sentences of "of [noun] hold the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The claw of Chaos held the island-continent firmly in its grip . |
| 2 | The following season he was Celtic 's star player in a memorable cup final when his heroic saves and faultless display of goalkeeping held the great Rangers side of the early ‘ 60s to a 1–1 draw . |
| 3 | Electoral reform can , it seems , be realistically expected only when it is initiated by a minority Conservative or Labour government as the price of survival exacted by a party or combination of parties holding the balance of power . |
| 4 | You report that the Hindus of Kashmir hold the top government jobs in Kashmir . |
| 5 | The beautifully drawn tondo in the base of the cup shows a running figure of Hermes holding the caduceus . |
| 6 | This expresses the willingness of buyers of bills to hold the existing stock . |
| 7 | Use scrap pieces of wood to hold the gap open while you work . |
| 8 | The seneschals tended to be Englishmen and between 1279 and 1307 Thomas of Sandwich , knight , Richard of Pevensey , Thomas de Belhus , knight , John Bakewell and John Clinton of Maxstoke held the office . |
| 9 | No one individual statistic or set of statistics holds the key to describing any community . |
| 10 | Wandering on , I found myself among dreary council flats , improved by a figure of Joseph holding the Baby high on a wall . |
| 11 | Leave blank lines between paragraphs and make frequent use of headings to hold the reader 's interest . |
| 12 | Earnings per share dived from 24.5p to 14.6p , but a final dividend of 6.2p holds the total at 8.7p , and the shares firmed 3p to 384p . |
| 13 | To hypothesize , it was as if the king of France held the earldom of Cornwall or Lancaster from the king of England , who could therefore exert some degree of control over the foreign policy and behaviour of the king of France . |
| 14 | Surely it is a kind of blasphemy to hold the church responsible for the cruelty and degradation going on around its blackened doors ? |
| 15 | Extensive as the network of government may have been , kings delegated much power to the handful of men holding the office of ealdorman ( or earl ) , who often came from families rich in land . |
| 16 | I suppose on both there is such a thing as divine providence there is as much chance of Major holding the Tories together as Manchester City winning the Premier League ! |
| 17 | ( c ) Partnerships premises and property The arguments in favour of partnerships holding the freehold of their premises or seeking leasehold offices are finely balanced . |
| 18 | Is early March a good time of year to hold the conference ? |
| 19 | In seconds , a pack of police , twenty deep , was fighting a shower of stones to hold the pickets back . |
| 20 | The Court of Appeal held the defendants liable in negligence for damage caused to the dress . |
| 21 | In the celebrated case Wilson v Rickett Cockerell and Co Ltd [ 1954 ] 1 QB 598 , the Court of Appeal held the seller liable for damage to property caused by a detonator which was included in a consignment of Coalite . |
| 22 | The city 's importance was owing to the new Emperor , Charles Habsburg , succeeding his grandfather in 1519 to become Charles V. The House of Habsburg held Germany and Spain , and Milan and the eastern end of Lombardy held the key to a potential land bridge between the two — a bridge desired by Charles and feared by France . |
| 23 | Traditional Clan MacLeod lands included Harris and parts of Lewis , and at the time of his visit to St. Kilda in 1695 , the MacLeods of Skye held the title to that isolated archipelago ( Cooper , 1970 & op. cit . ) . |
| 24 | Humphrey Duke of Gloucester held the forests of Savernake and Feckenham in chief of his brother Henry V , and in 1444 Henry VI granted the reversion of Feckenham Forest to Henry , Duke of Warwick in tail male . |