Example sentences of "[conj] hold to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Limited by what , in a recession , it could realistically claim to be spending , and obliged to exaggerate its fiscal rectitude to appear electable in the City , Labour had either to trim its sails to an economic situation it assured us was dire — thereby undermining the main reason why people supported them — or hold to its promises , confirming the impression that , once the party was in power , taxation and spending would soar . |
| 2 | If deep love exists and that loving is complete , then this blend and harmony can be brought about by all forms of physical closeness — from touching and holding to the complete sexual act . |
| 3 | European Community ( EC ) Finance Ministers in early October allocated Albania a balance-of-payments support grant worth ECU70,000,000 , conditional upon Albania concluding an agreement with the IMF and holding to its recommendations ( ECU1=US$1.39013 as at Oct. 5 , 1992 ) . |
| 4 | The neckguard was solid and beaten out of two sheets of metal and held to the cap by two riveted leather hinges with metal reinforcing bars . |
| 5 | But it was old and held to the post with bits of string in proper agricultural fashion . |
| 6 | They carry negligible risk , a known rate of return if held to their redemption which occurs always in the near future and there is a ready market for them . |
| 7 | There is very considerable force in the submission that once a refusal to treatment is expressed and held to be valid and binding on the hospital , as I have found , then that consent or that refusal should continue to prevail and dictate the outcome of this case . |
| 8 | One considers oneself able to be a Christian while holding to these principles because one believes that these very principles are fundamental to Christianity , or at least not incommensurate with it . |
| 9 | The launch held her place , riding the swell as though held to the Wheel by invisible ties . |