Example sentences of "hold [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each holds about 8.8fl oz and is available from Michael Johnson Ceramics , London . |
| 2 | With a workforce of 160 , Boursin holds about one third of the French speciality cheese market in France and exports to the UK , Benelux , Switzerland and Germany . |
| 3 | It has 10% of world proven oil reserves , second only to Saudi Arabia , and in terms of probable oil resources holds about one-seventh of the world 's potential . |
| 4 | It is rather to see how Marx handles these problems , and what views he holds about them . |
| 5 | Bit dangling under his neck , Mandarin holds off Lumino . |
| 6 | Parrella holds off fightback |
| 7 | Scott Reading holds off Cambs fight back |
| 8 | Fullerton holds off Brennan |
| 9 | Foster holds off champion to smash world record |
| 10 | Robert Cripps is a director of Cohere Limited , which holds as an investment 1,963,528 shares in Velcro — or 65%/ of the share capital . |
| 11 | It holds between 3,000 and 4,000 altogether , but it can also be divided up by electronically controlled , walls to give one area of half its size and two quarter areas . |
| 12 | A second variable is the syntactic relation which holds between individual atomic descriptions , so conjoining atomic individuals through the use of and , for instance , is taken as a very strong influence in bringing about felicitous plural reference . |
| 13 | The entire Sussex coast including these Harbours holds between 35,000 and 57,000 waders , the numbers varying annually , perhaps mainly affected by the severity or otherwise of the winter . |
| 14 | His novels , and in particular two novels of the sea which in many ways closely resembled certain of Conrad 's extended stories , assert the pre-eminence of story , of what happens next : in the balance he holds between character and event , in the way he directs his narrative , he provides almost a blueprint of the classic adventure genre . |
| 15 | Such connection is what is stated by independent nomic conditionals and , of course , holds between any two things when it is true that if or since the first occurred , then even if any change logically consistent with either had also occurred , the second would still have occurred . |
| 16 | If we can establish through very careful analysis what the ratio are between certain elements and each other then that ratio also holds between any given element and total salinity , yes ? |
| 17 | In presenting the traditional semantic view of reference , Lyons ( I968 : 404 ) says that ‘ the relationship which holds between words and things is the relationship of reference : words refer to things ’ . |
| 18 | Although the fundamental relation of entailment holds between propositions , we shall use the term to refer to an analogous relation between sentences . |
| 19 | Hence , we shall accept as evidence of the presence of a rule a recurrent semantic contrast between senses , that is to say , a contrast which holds between senses associated with at least two different lexical forms . |
| 20 | Many common locutions are semantically well-formed only if an appropriate semantic relation holds between certain of their lexical constituents . |
| 21 | A relation is said to be transitive if the fact that it holds between two elements A and B , and also between B and some third element C , guarantees that it holds between A and C. The relation ’ — is longer than — ’ is thus transitive , because if A is longer than B , and B is longer than C , we can be sure that A is longer than C. In the case of an intransitive relation , on the other hand , the fact that it held between A and B , and between B and C , would entail that it did not hold between A and C. For instance , if A were the father of B , and B the father of C , then A could not be the father of C ; the relation ’ — father of — ’ is thus intransitive . |
| 22 | A relation is said to be transitive if the fact that it holds between two elements A and B , and also between B and some third element C , guarantees that it holds between A and C. The relation ’ — is longer than — ’ is thus transitive , because if A is longer than B , and B is longer than C , we can be sure that A is longer than C. In the case of an intransitive relation , on the other hand , the fact that it held between A and B , and between B and C , would entail that it did not hold between A and C. For instance , if A were the father of B , and B the father of C , then A could not be the father of C ; the relation ’ — father of — ’ is thus intransitive . |
| 23 | The term reference is traditionally used in semantics for the relationship which holds between a word and what it points to in the real world . |
| 24 | Instead of denoting a direct relationship between words and extra-linguistic objects , reference is limited here to the relationship of identity which holds between two linguistic expressions . |
| 25 | This means that the following relationship holds between modified duration and bond prices . |
| 26 | A similar relationship holds between the prices of futures contracts with different delivery months : where P f 1 = current price of futures contract with delivery in year T 1 , P f 2 = current price of futures contract with delivery in year T 2 ( T 1 < T 2 ) . |
| 27 | Symmetry means that a relation holding between A and B also holds between B and A , and transitivity that if A=B and B=C , then A=C . |
| 28 | Since the work of S. S. Stevens in the 1930s and later , it has been recognized that , although the Weber-Fechner Law holds for many sorts of sensory experience , the exponent varies widely ; nevertheless , the principle of a quantitative correlation between external stimulus , neural activity and experienced sensation remains intact and now appears to be well-established . |
| 29 | Whatever the future holds for him , Mr Pozsgay has already ensured that his name will for ever be written in Hungarian history books . |
| 30 | May the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ enlighten the eyes of our mind , so that we can see what hope his call holds for us . |