Example sentences of "[adv] hold [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This pricing apparently holds for multi-user sites of up to four users . |
| 2 | The law only holds under certain conditions : The temperature must be constant . |
| 3 | However , we see the thesis as overambitious since it only holds for certain groups and issues and for a particular period of British politics — and that period , may have passed at least for the moment . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Whereas a white youth may have visions of becoming a successful sportsman , his parents may have a strong enough hold over him to deflect him and set him on course for a ‘ straight ’ job ; often this is not the case with blacks . |
| 6 | With the same team and the same way of playing that was n't good enough to hold off Leeds last season . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | A Christian position must necessarily hold of this human being Jesus that he existed ( or exists ) in relation to God as has no other . |
| 9 | Such relations do not necessarily hold within a phase if the average stresses and strains for that phase are substituted in the above . ) |
| 10 | Nield , J , was unable so to hold for two reasons — ( 1 ) since the Counter-Inflationary Order made under the powers of the Act preserved the lease as lawful and valid though prohibiting payment of rent above the standard rate , and ( 2 ) since even if it had been otherwise the plaintiffs ' contract for payment for professional services was not an agreement collateral to the lease so as to be tainted by any illegality in the lease if such illegality had existed . |
| 11 | The highlight of the Junior School charities programme is the Summer Charities Fair held on the lawns in June . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The Eskimos of Alaska were collecting amber and trading it at the late summer fair held at Kotzebue on the north-west coast down to recent times . |
| 14 | This year at Cebit 1989 , the huge electronics fair held in Hanover , the head of the government 's electronics commision , P.S. Deodhar , ‘ launched India into the European Information market . ’ |
| 15 | Then , on the third day , he would be a guest at a trade fair held in New Jersey . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Chancery Division so held in Prudential Assurance Company Ltd v IRC [ 1992 ] STI 925 . |
| 18 | The House of Lords so held in Woolwich Equitable Building Society v IRC [ 1992 ] STI 746 , dismissing the Crown 's appeal against the Court of Appeal 's ruling . |
| 19 | The Court of Appeal so held in IRC v Wilkinson [ 1992 ] STI 481 . |
| 20 | The High Court so held in Tenbry Investments Limited v Peugeot Talbot Motor Co Ltd [ 1992 ] STI 873 . |
| 21 | Chancery Division so held in Kempton v Special Commissioners and IRC [ 1992 ] STI 891 , dismissing the taxpayer 's appeal and upholding the penalty awarded by the Special Commissioner . |
| 22 | Mr Justice Templeman so held in allowing an appeal by the Crown from a decision of the General Commissioners that income from such interest received by White and Leonard and Corbin Greener was subject to earned income relief under Sections 211 and 525 ( 1 ) ( c ) of the Income Tax Act , 1952 . |
| 23 | The First Division of the Court of Session so held in refusing a reclaiming motion by property valuers against the Lord Ordinary 's decision that a mortgage application form containing a disclaimer in respect of their liability to Derek and Margaret Melrose constituted a contract . |
| 24 | The High Court of Justiciary so held in refusing an appeal by Brian Low against his conviction of murder in the High Court at Forfar . |
| 25 | These Rules may be disapplied by agreement in the case of non-private investors but where they apply they require that money is only held with certain approved banks and that the money in the account is , to the bank 's knowledge , a trust fund . |
| 26 | There may be a need for transfer of the stock from one to the other , or for duplication for both sections of titles which are only held in one . |
| 27 | If the file is small , the cylinder index may be partly or entirely held in main storage , as explained earlier in this chapter ( see p. 228 ) . |
| 28 | In 1348 the king restored the Earl of Lancaster 's title to the Honour and castle of Pontefract , which he had hitherto held on lease from the queen , ‘ having regard to the good service and great honour which our … cousin has done us in Gascony ’ . |
| 29 | In March and early April , the closing weeks of the dry season , the forces of Cambodia 's Phnom Penh-based government launched a series of successful offensives using tanks and heavy artillery , reportedly recapturing most of the 3,240 sq km of territory in western Cambodia hitherto held by guerrilla forces of the tripartite coalition government-in-exile . |
| 30 | 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 . |