Example sentences of "held back the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alternatively Aischines ' charge of ‘ bribery ’ could refer to vaguer but still politically valuable arrangements whereby the habitués of the ancient equivalent of the left-wing coffee-shop in a deme agreed to put forward no candidates in one year provided the right-wing coffee-shop held back the following year . |
| 2 | The Prince and Princess of Wales came to a lonely hilltop in South Korea to honour the 900 men of the Gloucestershire Regiment who held back the Chinese Army pouring across the Imjin River in January 1951 . |
| 3 | During a visit to Korea , he laid a wreath at a memorial to the men who held back the full might of the Chinese army at the battle of Imjin River . |
| 4 | By contrast Marx and Engels saw the proletariat 's mission as breaking down the restrictions of capitalism which held back the full development of technology ; and they rejected as utopian any form of transition to socialism which was not brought about by a genuine ( and almost certainly violent ) social revolution . |
| 5 | And many films attacked the sort of conservative attitudes which held back the British war effort . |
| 6 | He could see the grassy wilderness forming a high bank beyond the old bulging stone wall that held back the encroaching hillside . |