Example sentences of "[that] hold [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She came in eighth on January 6 after encountering unfavourable winds and suffering a broken forestay — part of the rigging that holds up the mast — in common with other competitors . |
| 2 | Any programme that holds out the hope of eradicating the underclass must be built on the foundation of re-establishing full employment . |
| 3 | The force of repression is like a great dam that holds back the raging torrents of the instincts of the unconscious and allows er some of them through , but others break through in holes , and holes and cracks appear which are the unconscious returning as one |
| 4 | Napoleon Bonaparte , Metternich , Napoleon III and Vittorio Emanuele II all visited the house , and each must have been impressed by the colossal Ionic columns that hold up the façade and hem in the doorway . |
| 5 | But their leaders thought Germany had too much on its plate to change its definition of nationality and that holding up the asylum reform for that would cost them too many votes . |
| 6 | When she was alone in it , she would , in affection and gratitude , pat the squat stone pillars that held up the nave roof . |
| 7 | He could see the grassy wilderness forming a high bank beyond the old bulging stone wall that held back the encroaching hillside . |
| 8 | In Spain , the paradox of Europe is that it is both the whip to modernise Spain by destroying structures of corporatism , grandeur and clericalism that held back the country for centuries , and , at the same time , it demands enormous sacrifices paid by the poor as Solchaga and Gonzáles seek to achieve a capitalism and productivity equal to levels set in northern Europe . |
| 9 | Earlier , less advanced forms were driven south by the expansion of superior types in Asia , Africa and America , but occasionally a barrier appeared that held back the advance and allowed the earlier forms to take refuge in an isolated southern area . |