Example sentences of "hold good " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although this conference comment is now well over fifteen years old it still holds good . |
| 2 | Even today , in the amalgamated forces , this structuring principle holds good ; and many old hands still refer to the ‘ real police forces ’ as those small units they joined in the late 1960s and early 1970s . |
| 3 | That he got into his stride so quickly at the pre-Wimbledon Queen 's Club tournament was evidence of his timing ability , an ability that holds good for both sports . |
| 4 | As the tour will doubtless prove , what drives them crazy in Stourbridge holds good elsewhere . |
| 5 | He claims the lake , which holds good pike , perch , trout and char , smells of sewage in warm weather and its shores are strewn with condoms and sanitary towels . |
| 6 | If — most improbably — that figure still holds good , 40% would mean around $500m . |
| 7 | The great characteristic of equitable estates , namely that they will be destroyed if the legal estate gets into the hands of a purchaser for value without notice , still holds good . |
| 8 | If the principle of contesting every seat holds good in England , Scotland and Wales it should hold good in Northern Ireland as well . |
| 9 | Whether they believe in heaven and hell as places that physically exist with a geography of their own , or as concepts existing on the spiritual plane alone , this view holds good . |
| 10 | The counter-argument of Section Four above still holds good . |
| 11 | In the event of a fuel pump failure the same reserve holds good . |
| 12 | This extract from an 1830 North and East Riding Gazette still holds good today , with the exception of the population , which numbers around 120 , and the parish now covers nearly 4,500 acres . |
| 13 | What I said when I left still holds good , George . |
| 14 | Switch across to the Boost channel on OD2 and the setting still holds good for that real processed , ‘ I 've spent an arm and a leg on my effects rack ’ sound . |
| 15 | The injunction which still holds good is that we should use our resources with as much single-mindedness and astuteness as the unjust steward displayed but in our case to further the interests of the Kingdom of God . |
| 16 | Scudamore hopes his judgement holds good for tomorrow 's Gold Cup . |
| 17 | The ‘ open cup ’ principle holds good for most types — there are just two or three growth habits like Bourbons and Musks that do not lend themselves to it too well , and we will deal with them later . |
| 18 | Perhaps this holds good for makers of motor-cars . |
| 19 | The following analysis of the influence of armaments engineers on policy making also holds good for telecoms engineers : The key roles played by the corps of armaments engineers in making France 's arms complex run can hardly be exaggerated . |
| 20 | The same general advice holds good : concentrate on following the flow of the argument and jot down just the key points within a coherent structure . |
| 21 | The same holds good today and it would be idle to suggest that the victim of a robbery consents in any way to hand over his property , much less to transfer its ownership , to the robber . |
| 22 | I believe it still holds good , and perhaps deserves to be extended . |
| 23 | In some areas the agency model holds good ( for example , county councils serve as agents of the Department of Transport in constructing motorways and trunk roads ) but in general it conveys an exaggerated picture of central domination , particularly as there is a great deal of evidence of continued local discretion in service provision . |
| 24 | In such actions , it is clear that the analysis in the first paragraph holds good , whoever the parties actually are . |
| 25 | The same principle holds good for all pairs of wind instruments in combination unless , of course , the two bottom notes of the chord lie outside the downward compass of the upper pair of instruments . |
| 26 | In arpeggios divided between the hands the same rule holds good . |
| 27 | This distinction of style holds good for the whole of Greek art … " |
| 28 | If such a geographical distribution holds good then O. fraterna should be treated as subspecies distinguished from O. bidentata bidentata by the nearly bell shaped dorsal arm plates which are sometimes contiguous on proximal arm segments and by the ventral arm plates which are notched on the distal edge . |
| 29 | The paradigm example to remind us of the conventionality of the relationship between meanings and perceptions is the case of expressions for colour , and this holds good even if we are willing to accept a case for the universality of certain focal points of colour perception . ) |
| 30 | This holds good on condition that we are restricting our attention , as in this study , to syntax ; once we take the broader view which embraces speakers ' knowledge of vocabulary as well , then we must admit a real analogue to this relation since speakers are quite aware that their language habitually uses , for example this set of words to instantiate E , and that set of words to instantiate P ( or , in most languages , various sets of words to instantiate the Ps occurring in various different intensional patterns ; see Appendix B , Section 7 ) . |