Example sentences of "[adv] hold for " in BNC.

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1 This pricing apparently holds for multi-user sites of up to four users .
2 However , we see the thesis as overambitious since it only holds for certain groups and issues and for a particular period of British politics — and that period , may have passed at least for the moment .
3 Nield , J , was unable so to hold for two reasons — ( 1 ) since the Counter-Inflationary Order made under the powers of the Act preserved the lease as lawful and valid though prohibiting payment of rent above the standard rate , and ( 2 ) since even if it had been otherwise the plaintiffs ' contract for payment for professional services was not an agreement collateral to the lease so as to be tainted by any illegality in the lease if such illegality had existed .
4 After a spell in private practice , Vial was made equerry to Louis XVI and chef de manège of the Lyons riding academy , a post he apparently held for some years , but could not retain .
5 The first of these , which formed part of Gloucester 's original endowment , was the manor of Kingston Lacy in Dorset , which he apparently held for the rest of the reign .
6 The first of these , which formed part of Gloucester 's original endowment , was the manor of Kingston Lacy in Dorset , which he apparently held for the rest of the reign .
7 Vitally for small manufacturers , the more parts they use from large manufacturers that have already gained Type Approval in another application , the cheaper the tests will be ; MIRA 's inspectors will be able to cross-check data they already hold for , say , a wheel , a light or a mirror , using their discretion as to whether they think its new role is fit and proper .
8 Arnold Toynbee once argued that it is the ‘ barbaric ’ vital periphery that finally topples a declining civilization , but this maxim does not hold for the Russian Revolution .
9 This implication does not hold for a normative-explanatory account .
10 Yet what applies to a rat or dog need not hold for a human being .
11 However , this explanation does not hold for our results because most of the lean women in our population had regular cycles with biphasic basal body temperatures and did not require induction of ovulation .
12 Experimentally it is found that while Hooke 's law and its viscoelastic analogue of Boltzmann 's superposition principle hold adequately for very small strains ( typically less than 0.1 per cent ) they certain do not hold for large strains of 10 per cent or more .
13 But this does not hold for national debt which is owed by the nation to citizens of the same nation … .
14 Not only are these characteristics in stark contrast with the possibilities for ordinary adjectives , they can not hold for these inherently restrictive adjectives unchaperoned by an article : ( 28 ) second had roses on it Max owns best that has been discovered so far
15 The evaluation runs mentioned above indicate that the results with mid-class representations do not hold for connected speech .
16 Go ahead , hello is Sergeant Briggs there please , if you would just hold for a minute , beep , beep , beep , beep , beep , hello this is Sergeant Briggs who 's calling ?
17 Canterbury ) ‘ which he has already held for three years without ordination and without papal dispensation ’ .
18 A further three years ' non-residence , as well as the revenues already held for three years without ordination and without papal dispensation' .
19 These positions were not held for his own status but to promote the cause of rowing where it needed clout .
20 money not held for social or domestic use ;
21 They can concentrate on fast-moving products ( ie goods that sell well ) , so that stock is not held for too long and money is released to buy more goods
22 The significance of the support system is that these messages are not held for inspection by the children themselves ; rather , it is the action of the adult doing this — by simple repetition — that brings the message into the children 's awareness .
23 The view that certain types of fiction occupy a mediatory position between the ‘ reality ’ of a cultural heritage and contemporary ‘ true ’ accounts of it elevates these texts to a status which the novel has not held for quite some time .
24 So we 're testing , those priorities are still holding for us that but we 're applying them to the localities .
25 Some passion he still held for his fiancée ?
26 This probably also holds for smoking and drinking .
27 The recording quality for standard 8mm is at least equal to VHS , and the comparison also holds for the two competing super-formats of Hi8 and S-VHS .
28 The conservation of the fivefold symmetry also holds for 250 of the water molecules which show an average r.m.s.d. from exact fivefold symmetry of 0.3Å .
29 The point also holds for those postgraduate courses which are hardly more than programmes of professional training .
30 Generalizations hold for the known cases which prompted them but are not scientifically interesting unless they also hold for others .
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