Example sentences of "hold [adj] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As was indicated at the beginning of this book , many newcomers hold strong views on the desired social and aesthetic qualities of the English village . |
| 2 | ‘ They have brought even those of us who hold that view to the point where we can imagine armed action against them to prevent a general Balkan war . ’ |
| 3 | Certainly their petty wranglings hold little interest for the ‘ common ’ man in Britain . |
| 4 | This study aimed to review the content of referral letters from general practitioners to a child psychiatry department and to discover whether general practitioners and psychiatrists hold different views on the information that should be included in a referral letter . |
| 5 | Then if we hold this rope in the other hand and effectively that 's our accelerator . |
| 6 | Hold this end of the yarn lightly to stop it jumping off the needles and knit a row . |
| 7 | Now , if you hold this action through the killing area , which is probably no more than two yards long , the baited hook is raised fractionally off the bottom of the river and is , presumably , preceding the slightly held-back tackle downstream . |
| 8 | The President of France and the Bishop of Urgel ( in Spain ) respectively hold joint sovereignty over the Co-principality of Andorra and are represented by the Veguer de França and the Veguer Episcopal . |
| 9 | The President of France and the Bishop of Urgel ( in Spain ) , who are represented in Andorra by the Veguer de França and the Veguer Episcopal respectively , hold joint suzerainty over the Co-principality of Andorra . |
| 10 | ( c ) investors who hold large blocks of the target 's shares may find that if they attempted to sell them in the market at the same time the price would fall . |
| 11 | As the hon. Gentleman knows , we hold televised debates in the House twice a week — |
| 12 | Tiphook moved on 7 to 356p , following news that American investors now hold 4 p.c. of the stock . |
| 13 | The entity-types path and pathitem shown in Figure 4 hold all information on the trails made by users through the textbase . |
| 14 | This step is important in that organizational transformation always necessitates the need for changes in the behavior of those who hold key roles in the organization . |
| 15 | Conventionalism does not deny that many lawyers hold rival views about the best interpretation of the practice they share . |
| 16 | At the centre there are a handful who hold important roles at the Cliburn , and those who always have the calm look of those who have taken on difficult jobs and remain , despite myriad new crises , absolutely in control : Susan Tilley , chairman of the board of the Van Cliburn Foundation ; Mildred Fender , the social chairman for this year 's competition ; Richard Rodzinski , director of the foundation ; and John Giordano , chairman of the jury . |
| 17 | December 1987 Hun Sen and Sihanouk hold face-to-face talks for the first time [ see pp. 35967-68 ] . |
| 18 | Four religious parties led by elderly rabbis hold 13 seats in the Knesset , controlling the balance between Labour and its friends on the left and the Likud and its friends on the right . |
| 19 | Its DNA could ‘ only ’ hold one copy of the New Testament ! |
| 20 | If you compare this modulus with the typical bulk modulus of a polymer — about 5 GPa — it is clear that the forces opposing extension , whether by bond stretching or bond bending , in any one chain are considerably greater than the forces which hold one chain to the next . |
| 21 | One Harvard client is on record as saying : " I still hold 10000 shares in the Harvard quoted company BURAD Holdings , and , since I have lost all confidence in the dealing room at Harvard , I am still puzzling over how to dispose of the shares without an inordinate amount of emotional effort . " |
| 22 | In 1992 , we produced xxx boe/d in the Gulf of Mexico , where we also hold significant acreage in the deep water tracts . |