Example sentences of "be hold up to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seeing Anthea each day would be a constant reminder , and neither woman could deny that the masks of civility each had been holding up to the other for months were now trampled underfoot . |
| 2 | Its investment methods and specific investment assumptions will be held up to intense public scrutiny . |
| 3 | The hunting , fishing and shooting which Diana detests will be held up to them as badges of manhood . |
| 4 | The professionals use clapper-boards for this , but sheets of paper with the numbers written in felt-tip pen can be held up to the camera , and they serve just as well . |
| 5 | Another concern of the book is indeed with concepts and with theorizing , and throughout this chapter concepts — from deindustrialization to uneven development to full employment — will be held up to scrutiny . |
| 6 | The Light Rifle is based around the same theory of operation as a lightpen , it 's just much bigger and is designed to be held up to about 10′ from the TV set rather than in contact with the screen . |
| 7 | However , as soon as they moved on to a more public and active presentation of their demands then councillors condemned this activity , the demands themselves were ignored , and the groups were held up to public ridicule as a threat to democracy and the general interest . |
| 8 | The Party 's leaders were held up to the public 's scrutiny ; it was not the Party 's fault that some , those with speech defects in particular , failed to receive the customary standing ovation after their speeches from an enthusiastic conference , or that others , standing some way up the ladder of promotion , were pinched for drunken driving . |
| 9 | The warrants will be exercisable from October 1993 for seven years , and would take IBM 's holding up to 12.4% . |
| 10 | The other apostles , whose faith was so strong that they did not need evidence , are held up to us as worthy of imitation . |
| 11 | Legitimacy … does not deal so much with whether activities of government are lawful as whether they accord with what are generally perceived to be or what have for long been held up to be , the fundamental principles of the constitution according to which government is or ought to be conducted . |
| 12 | It was estimated by the International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) that Iraq was holding up to 40,000 Iranian PoWs ( more than half of them unregistered as such ) and that Iran held up to 70,000 Iraqi PoWs ( of whom some 50,000 were registered ) . |
| 13 | The Empress was held up to obloquy as an empty and frivolous woman while the Emperor was denounced as a degenerate debauchee , their only common interests being a desire for power and extravagant spectacle . |
| 14 | Or so I thought , until I read this week that Prince Charles , who was held up to my by that selfsame grandmother as a paragon , has apparently gone the way of the rest of our post-war generation . |