Example sentences of "[adv] hold [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dorrainge said that at any minute Cathbad would start talking about holding a pig-sticking party , and Cathbad , who was plunging about happily in the wild sorrel , said , ‘ And if we could only hold a pig-sticking party … |
| 2 | The police , therefore , have little to gain in promoting any exploration of their modes of thought , for analysis can only hold the possibility that the whole intricate system , to paraphrase Lévi-Strauss ( 1967 ) , will be revealed ‘ as an immense disorder [ which ] is organised in the form of a grammar ’ . |
| 3 | Earlier in the same discussion Sockett ( 1980 ) argues that you can only hold the teacher accountable ‘ for what is within his control ’ . |
| 4 | The new scheme , upheld by the Divisional Court in the later case , was made under the same statute and did not appreciably hold a different balance between ratepayers and transport users . |
| 5 | ’ Even if a car is n't in stock and we have to wait for it to be built , we can generally hold the agreed price . ’ |
| 6 | Her poor father might still like his lunch on time , even though he could no longer hold a fork and had to be helped to eat . |
| 7 | ( However , in this particular case , Mrs Hohne 's transfer to the new premises resulted in both her status and pay being reduced as she could no longer hold the post of manageress because there already was a person in this position in the new premises . |
| 8 | if these young men possessed traces of the Beastblood , it was from so far back that it could not be measured , and it was so slight that it could no longer hold the power to call upon the beasts for aid . |
| 9 | If you do not already hold a valid passport , application forms may be obtained from the Post Office . |
| 10 | To boost their credentials , bidders who do not already hold an ITV franchise need to acquire , or strike deals with , independent production companies . |
| 11 | Geoffrey Chaucer could not hold a conversation with a modern Englishman , even though they are linked to each other by an unbroken chain of some twenty generations of Englishmen , each of whom could speak to his immediate neighbours in the chain as a son speaks to his father . |
| 12 | If you find that you can not hold a normal conversation after exercising , then you are overdoing it . |
| 13 | Applicants whose native language is not English and who do not hold a recognized qualification in English will be required to provide evidence that they are sufficiently competent in the use of the English language . |
| 14 | Applicants whose native language is not English and who do not hold a recognized qualification in English will be required to provide evidence that they are sufficiently competent in the use of the English language . |
| 15 | If you can not hold a conversation with someone without getting out of breath then you are going too fast . |
| 16 | A member of the Institute having been found to have been in breach of Bye-law 76(c) in force at the material time and liable to disciplinary action under Bye-law 76(a) ( iv ) in that he between 1 January 1985 and 30 March 1992 engaged in public practice contrary to Bye-law 59 when he did not hold a current practising certificate was reprimanded , fined £500 and ordered to pay £500 by way of costs . |
| 17 | They do not hold a light to the more flamboyant and colourful dendrodorids but are nevertheless beautiful in a grotesque sort of way . |
| 18 | Although the 1624 Act against letting an individual hold a monopoly meant that no businessman could take the place of a trading company , there was no reason why an individual should not hold a charter as a great landlord . |
| 19 | Pigmented preservatives must n't be used when overpainting , as they can not hold a coat of paint for more than a few months . |
| 20 | In relation to the example of the headship issue , it would follow that although a woman may not hold a position of authority in the church , she may be prime minister . |
| 21 | In packed decimal format the right-hand four bits of the least-significant byte do not hold a digit , but instead hold a pattern to represent the sign of the number . |
| 22 | We do not hold a particular idea of the reputation of a product or a company in isolation . |
| 23 | and about thirty junior men did not hold a post at all as a result of coalition . |
| 24 | The appearance which sense-spectra present can be compared with a so-called ‘ dialect continuum ’ : speakers from village A can communicate with those from village B , who are able to converse with speakers from C ; these , in turn , can communicate with speakers from village D. However , speakers from A can not hold a conversation with speakers from D , and without the evidence of the intervening stages , one would be tempted to say that they spoke different languages . |
| 25 | If you can not find the card , it could be for one of two reasons : that the library does not hold a copy of the book ; or that the book is of a special kind and is listed under one of the special catalogues . |
| 26 | If on the other hand the sub-contractor did not hold a tax certificate , the contractor must deduct tax from the payment and pass the deduction over to the Inland Revenue . |
| 27 | PROCEDURE WHEN PAYMENT IS MADE TO A SUB-CONTRACTOR WHO DOES NOT HOLD A TAX CERTIFICATE |
| 28 | ask your Social Secretary office for form AG 5 ( and form AG 1 if you want to claim on low-income grounds and you do not hold a current AG 2 or AG 3 certificate ) , fill them both in and send them where the form tells you . |
| 29 | under Sub-Section 2 ( b ) ( c ) or ( d ) if to the knowledge of the person claiming to be indemnified the person driving does not hold a licence to drive such car unless he has held and is not disqualified for holding or obtaining such a licence |
| 30 | driven on the order or with the permission of the Policyholder by any person who to the Policyholders knowledge does not hold a licence to drive such car unless such person has held and is not disqualified for holding or obtaining such a licence |