Example sentences of "to hold [adj] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new Board was known to hold strong views about the replacement of tram services , particularly those where there was single track in narrow streets or worked by outdated rolling stock . |
| 2 | Numerous English towns were granted royal charters to hold weekly markets in the Middle Ages . |
| 3 | Finally , victims of deviance also tend to hold different places in the two enforcement strategies . |
| 4 | It undertook to pass a law by Dec. 31 ensuring that Ukrainian conscripts served only on Ukrainian soil ; called for formation of a parliamentary commission to discuss nationalizing Communist Party assets ; asserted that the Ukraine would not enter into a new union treaty before a new constitution creating a sovereign Ukraine was drafted ; and called a referendum in 1991 " on confidence in the Ukrainian President " , the result of which would determine whether to hold fresh elections by the end of the year . |
| 5 | Attention in the later 1970s centred on the Paris summit 's decision to hold direct elections to the European Parliament . |
| 6 | The Foreign Ministers also agreed to hold future talks on the status of Japan 's Korean population which would address other areas of discrimination and would consider the possible enfranchisement of Korean residents . |
| 7 | In 1672 he obtained permission from Charles II to hold Presbyterian meetings in the house . |
| 8 | During May divisions emerged among Palestinians over the response to Israel 's April offer to hold municipal elections in the occupied territories [ see p. 38885 ] . |
| 9 | Pat and her then lover , former taxi-driver Bill Nadin ( he was her first childhood sweetheart ) used to hold great parties at the ancient tavern . |
| 10 | Further enhancements could include a case big enough to hold various components of the system like the power supply unit and Microdrive interface or other add-ons . |
| 11 | Consequently , it is not surprising that in this period the main philosophical schools tended to reject the idea of progress and to hold cyclical views concerning the nature of time . |
| 12 | Poets were more likely to hold radical opinions toward the end of the century than in Stephen Duck 's time ; however , the following passage ( c. 1795 ) reveals a political consciousness which developed despite early patronage . |