Example sentences of "which hold " in BNC.
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| 1 | Street Scene is the climax of this quest , an opera that speaks with the accents of Broadway , but which holds up a typically critical and compassionate mirror to the face of his adopted city . |
| 2 | We begin with Belbo phoning from Paris to say , ‘ They 're after me , ’ and the telephone going dead just as he is about to give the password for the computer file which holds the final explanation known to him alone . |
| 3 | ‘ Stabbers ’ and attack the muscle which holds the shell closed and ‘ hammerers ’ simply bash a hole in the shell . |
| 4 | Self , self-consciousness , self-will , the self-centre cut away , so that the centre which holds all my parts is God . |
| 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 | After a three-day crisis meeting , the Communist Party Central Committee revealed an ‘ action programme for renewal ’ which holds out the prospect of free elections , a democratic coalition government and parliamentary investigations into malpractices and abuses of power . |
| 7 | John Spalvins , the head of Adelaide Steamship which holds a key 20 per cent stake in Bell Resources , has asked the Western Australian Supreme Court to appoint a receiver to that company along with Mr Bond 's master company , Bond Corporation , and his private family concern , Dallhold Investments . |
| 8 | Mr Spalvins , who heads the Adelaide Steamship group which holds a 20 per cent stake in Bell Resources , called off his legal action to appoint a receiver to the company . |
| 9 | Coniston Partners , the New York investment group which holds nearly 12 per cent of UAL , has given the board until January 8 to come up with an alternative to the $6.75billion buyout which failed to take off in October . |
| 10 | Swapo 's wish for an executive president was opposed by all except the Namibian National Front , which holds one seat . |
| 11 | Though some firms have pulled out , there are still too many market-makers in both gilts and equities , which holds down everyone 's earnings . |
| 12 | If this is approved , British Airways , which holds 38% of the available slots , will suffer . |
| 13 | The biggest official gold hoarder by far is America , which holds 27.9% of the world 's central-bank gold reserves . |
| 14 | The monarchy is the keystone which holds the arching class system in place . |
| 15 | There is something absurd , as well , in the extravagance of the Liberal Democrat demands , for history has shown that the party which holds the balance of power finds itself compromised . |
| 16 | Bloomsbury , £17.99 THERE is a persistent myth about Georges Simenon , inventor of Inspector Maigret , which holds that he has never received proper recognition as a novelist . |
| 17 | He told a news conference after the meeting : ‘ We must all agree that there should be only one nuclear state ’ in the Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ) , apparently referring to Russia , which holds about 17,000 nuclear warheads . |
| 18 | The water soaks into the ground and becomes sucked in to a sandstone strata , which holds it like a sponge under the city . |
| 19 | On later models it is the tag which holds the rad cap chain and is thus marked 4M54 , which means April 1954 . |
| 20 | Remove the column shroud and slacken the clamping screw which holds the switch assembly to the column . |
| 21 | The largest store of freshwater is in glaciers and icecaps — particularly in Antarctica — which holds about 30 million cubic kilometres of water as ice . |
| 22 | But it does have a dome which holds a bubble of air giving a safe haven if needed . |
| 23 | There is a cliff in Kaiserslautern which holds a cave so deep and mysterious that no one has discovered its bottom . |
| 24 | Arguably it is this aim which provides the ‘ ideological coherence which holds together the various initiatives and pieces of legislation ’ ( Stoker , 1988 , p. 251 ) introduced by the Conservative governments of the 1980s . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | In Australia the need to make the material more accessible to a widely scattered clientele has been met in part by the adoption of a centre for every state and territory , each of which holds a replicate collection of teaching materials . |
| 27 | When they reacted the drug with a self complementary two ’ stranded , six-base DNA chain , they found that the hydrogen bonding which holds the two strands together can not compete with the bonding of the platinum complex to adjacent guanine groups ( see Figure ) . |
| 28 | Thus Yukawa proposed that the strong nuclear force , which holds protons and neutrons together , was carried by particles he named ‘ mesons ’ . |
| 29 | The new theory is a refinement of the theory of plate tectonics , which holds that continents grow steadily and systematically by a process called subduction . |
| 30 | Which holds the greater amount of liquid ? |