Example sentences of "[adv] hold [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , some verbs seem to have no lexical content beyond one which is aimed at providing some kind of reservation about applicability of the adjectival property , examples being become and turn which place a temporal restriction on the adjective 's applicability ; the subordinate property only holds after the time indicated by the tense of the verb . |
| 2 | On a shelf was a pebble that had been polished by running water ; it was ovoid , a piece of granite about big enough to hold in a clenched fist ; a seam of quartz halved it on the diagonal . |
| 3 | Such relations do not necessarily hold within a phase if the average stresses and strains for that phase are substituted in the above . ) |
| 4 | The highlight of the Junior School charities programme is the Summer Charities Fair held on the lawns in June . |
| 5 | The recent contemporary art fair held at the Pacifico Yokohama Exhibition Hall ( see The Art Newspaper No. 16 , March 1992 , pp. 17 and 19 ) attracted 58,533 visitors and was adjudged successful by its organisers although no sales figures were released . |
| 6 | What seemed to be a simple matter when merely held as a mental question , verbally unframed and with no thought given to response , appears as a simply impossible problem when it has actually to be put down on paper . |
| 7 | In Athens ( hitherto held by the ND ) the pro-ND independent , former Pasok Cabinet minister Antonis Tritsis [ see p. 36042 ] , was elected mayor with 50.2 per cent of the vote , defeating the Pasok-Left Coalition candidate , and former Minister of Culture Melina Mercouri , who polled 46 per cent . |
| 8 | At one point he even went as far as to tell a group of American diplomats that he expected the United States to take over the " primary role " which the British had hitherto held in the Middle East . |
| 9 | The group also organised more seminars last year , all held at the Chartered Institute of Transport , free to TSUG members , and covering a wide range of topics . |
| 10 | Sometimes it is all held in a single incident . |
| 11 | Even those assets whose supply is controlled by the authorities are not all held by the controlled institutions . |
| 12 | Ruth rose too , suddenly held by a despair more absolute than any she 'd yet felt . |
| 13 | By the sixteenth century the initiative long held by the defender , surrendered in the late fourteenth century , had been largely regained . |
| 14 | The history of mathematics — long held by the Classical Greeks to have originated from Ancient Egypt — was swept under the academic carpet and lost . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The Serbian government is unlikely to start problems in an area it already holds with an iron fist . |
| 18 | At the same time , sociologists of education generally hold to the view that schools can have an important role in both conservation and social change . |
| 19 | Just hold onto the idea that certain operators will possess mathematical properties which make them perfectly suited to the role of representing physical observables . |
| 20 | Look , just hold on a wee minute . |
| 21 | Just hold on a minute , now , for this is very interesting . |
| 22 | I 'm coming Bryony , I think she 's shouting now , do n't come downstairs with your trousers round your ankles ooh oh what a clever girl , stand still while I wipe your bot , ooh come here , bendy over , touch your toes , clever girl , down you go , that 's it , what a clever girl , right just hold on a minute , wait a minute , let me put some water in here and then , oh dear |
| 23 | one , two , you just hold on a minute can you , just wait till Mark 's finished , cos it gets a bit confusing cos we get too many people knocking about . |
| 24 | Just hold on a minute ! , just look at all that stuff on there ! |
| 25 | But I said that and sort of just holding on a level now like , is n't it ? |
| 26 | This implication does not hold for a normative-explanatory account . |
| 27 | Yet what applies to a rat or dog need not hold for a human being . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Conservatives thus hold what must appear , to those who do not hold to a conservative position , to be a distorted conception of what he was about . |
| 30 | The Rev Anthony Freeman said he felt a great sense of relief when he admitted to himself he did not hold to the traditional view of God . |