Example sentences of "[pron] hold [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If only they had asked for Donald Duck , a character I hold in great respect ! |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Beginning with this chapter , and running through to chapter 12 , the principal topics of discussion will be various types of semantic relation which hold between lexical units of the kind established in chapter 3 . |
| 4 | These are relations which hold between lexical items whose syntactic distributions only partially coincide . |
| 5 | Since substitution and ellipsis are purely grammatical relations which hold between linguistic forms rather than between linguistic forms and their meanings , the details are highly language-specific and are therefore not worth going into here . |
| 6 | Therefore merely the thought of exchanging gifts with the people she holds in mutual contempt was more awful than the prospect of being without her sons on Christmas Day . |
| 7 | Please also delete from my ‘ named drivers ’ , as she has her own car now ; I would be grateful if you could replace her with my mother , whose details I believe you hold from previous policies . |
| 8 | The very fact that terms like ‘ dissenter ’ and ‘ nonconformist ’ made no sense in America shows the attraction that she held for English Nonconformists : America to them was what England might become . |
| 9 | Liberal Democrats recognise the importance of the things we own in private but we also know the value of what we hold in common . |
| 10 | We have felt obliged to play up those special things which we alone do and to keep quiet about those which we hold in common . |
| 11 | First their report was published as a booklet , ‘ Hire purchase and Credit Buying ’ , which gave factual information about the various methods and the legislation controlling them , their advantages and disadvantages and the dangers they hold for thoughtless or inexperienced people ; and also a leaflet setting out some of the points to be taken into account when undertaking hire purchase . |
| 12 | The perceptions of their interests by the two parties may not always be entirely accurate , or they may change over time , but there can be no doubt of the importance they hold for local government structure . |
| 13 | In the first of these a group of libraries cooperate because of a factor or factors which they hold in common — usually their subject field or their geographical location . |
| 14 | They were not forewarned of the final paragraph , added by a Vatican envoy : ‘ There is no way the Bishops could want to be disrespectful to His Excellency the Life President of the Republic , whom they hold in high esteem . ’ |
| 15 | They receive information on it from people they trust , and whose opinion they hold in high regard . |
| 16 | They really were not compatible , in spite of the affections they held in common . |
| 17 | As she held out the flowers , and the bright young face lit up , Folly felt a fresh surge of anger against the man they held in common . |
| 18 | The Pomeranian Junkers began to complain that the end of serfdom had released the peasants they held in moneyless bondage to wander where they would . |
| 19 | To the BBC SSO , whom he holds in great affection — he first came to Scotland in 1988 for their Festival of New Chinese Music — he has gifted a new work , Death and the Fire : a dialogue with Paul Klee , to be premiered on 27 March . |
| 20 | If so , the fact that a dependence thesis is true of theoretical authorities is strong evidence to suppose that it holds for practical authorities as well . |
| 21 | Driven into a corner , she panicked , her arms flailing desperately as she tried to wrench herself free , but he held on tight . |
| 22 | Myrdal was able to pick up this anxiety from unstructured conversations he held with individual Americans . |
| 23 | Under cross-examination he denied his evidence was tainted by any bitterness he held for British soldiers because he had been jailed in 1968 for five years in Manchester for assault . |
| 24 | His reference book was the Gardeners Dictionary and its author he held in high esteem , writing much later , |
| 25 | As for Freud , the clitoris continues to be surrounded by the same problems that it held for nineteenth-century medicine . |
| 26 | Individuals have a right of access to personal information about themselves held by local authority social services departments . |