Example sentences of "[pers pn] hold to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this way he saw that Man was truly made in the Image of God : ‘ The primary Imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception , and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM ’ ( Biographia Literaria , xiii ) . |
| 2 | The King 's own statements , however , show the extent to which his view of the Church was political : ‘ It is not the change of Church government which is chiefly aimed at ’ , he wrote in 1646 , ‘ ( though that were too much ) but it is by that pretext to take away the dependency of the Church from the Crown , which , let me tell you , I hold to be of equal consequence to that of the militia ; for people are governed by the pulpit more than the sword in the time of peace . |
| 3 | If I say ‘ Prostitution is on the increase ’ I express my belief that it is on the increase , but what I put upon the mat for discussion is not my holding the belief , but rather the state of affairs , which I hold to be actual , but which others may not , of prostitution being on the increase . |
| 4 | As we sat there at the wedding-feast I held to the pedestrian belief that the rustling jetsam at my feet was merely the accumulation of champagne foil . |
| 5 | She was holding a net curtain to one side with the gold-ringed fingers of one hand , while in the other hand she held to her mouth a long white ebony cigarette holder on which she drew constantly as she watched the visitor enter her neighbour 's house . |
| 6 | The fact that she held to her theory of carpel polymorphism , despite the overwhelming criticism levelled against it , in some measure detracts from the overall impact of her morphological work . |
| 7 | She held to it confidingly , at rest in David 's hand . |
| 8 | But if we hold to the idea of democracy as popular power , then it is clear that the concentration of so much power in non-accountable hands , outside the control of elected bodies , is incompatible with democracy . |
| 9 | On Aug. 17 IRNA reported Rafsanjani as having told the Turkish President Turgut Özal during a telephone conversation that " peace with Iraq is a different issue , and we hold to our view that Iraq must evacuate its forces from Kuwait so as to create the necessary conditions for the re-establishment of peace and tranquillity " . |
| 10 | Now it was possible for a settlor who conveyed land to A to direct him to hold to the use of B ; and then to direct that , on the happening of an event , e.g. B 's marriage , B's use should shift to C. This use in favour of C was a shifting use . |
| 11 | In these transitional years of fluctuating opinion some continued to adopt a passive attitude towards fatalities , in which they sought to trace the hand of God , whilst others favoured active remedies for what they held to be primarily human failings . |
| 12 | Because they saw no way out of the situation for themselves , they held to the belief that if their children had better opportunities , particularly education , it would enable their children to have far better working lives . |
| 13 | Although they differed markedly in the kinds of data it was thought necessary to collect , they held to a similar conception of the relationship between theory and data . |
| 14 | He holds to it in a most unsceptical way — that is , with a fair degree of dogmatism . |
| 15 | Indeed , at first glance this does not look a very compelling book : it holds to a strong version of the Whorf-Sapir hypothesis ; it contains extended discussions of those perennial seminar heroes Lok and Benjy from Golding 's The Inheritors and Faulkner 's The Sound and the Fury respectively ; and there is a dutiful chapter on gender . |
| 16 | Then he visited his friends — too often for their good for he held to his heathenism with all the tenacity with which he had clung to his beloved Wallowa Valley ’ . |
| 17 | It was important to Trent that he held to that word ; as it had been important to him never to use the term ‘ Loyalist ’ when speaking of or reporting on the Protestant terrorists in Northern Ireland . |
| 18 | I do n't know what sort of a pistol he held to their heads , but I personally was quite happy and had never been looked after so well in my life . |
| 19 | What left his stamp on the stewardship of our movement was that he held to these passions so tenaciously and yet drew on inner reserves that illumined them with an unshakeable commitment to excellence and that rarest of all qualities personal integrity . |
| 20 | Outside the family , being Welsh was the greatest blessing he had and he held to it . |
| 21 | Feuerbach 's position was more consistent : he was a philosopher who did not believe in God but was on his own admission passionately concerned with religion and theology , whose real object he held to be man himself . |
| 22 | The most versatile stone in his long catalogue was sapphire , which he held to be good for protecting the limbs from injury and the wearer from fraud , as well as for overcoming envy , averting terror , liberating from imprisonment , purifying the eyes , cooling the body and not least for the convenient property of making the wearer beloved of god as well as of men . |
| 23 | Compared Angus Brown in Scarbus and confessed he practiced a charme by uttering some words with a string he held to his mouth which string was to be bound about the hand of the sick person . |
| 24 | Compared Angus Brown in Scarbus and confessed he practiced a charme by uttering some words with a string he held to his mouth which string was to be bound about the hand of the sick person . |
| 25 | Here too they follow Richards , who used the same term to characterize the ‘ bringing in of the opposite , the complementary impulse ’ ( Richards 1967 : 197 ) , which he held to be characteristic of all great poetry . |
| 26 | His advance had been laid down for him in definite terms , and he held to it , but taking his own precautions along the way . |
| 27 | Essentially he held to the line taken by the Ministry of Health in the 1930s : the school medical service was primarily educational , and had never been designed as a complete child health service , nor as an agency to relieve poverty as such — indeed , it operated within strict terms of reference set down by Parliament ; systematic medical inspection of evacuees would have been impossible in the conditions of panic and devastation forecast by all civil defence planners before the war ; many of the evacuees ' problems , such as bed-wetting , had cleared up quickly . |
| 28 | Rory , secretly , did not believe it , he held to his mother 's bitter view that Michael had been a feckless drunk , another feckless Irish drunk , who had died at the wheel of his car while returning from a bout of cross-border carousing in Dundalk . |
| 29 | Portugal , with star winger Paulo Futre back in the side after being dropped , will have been encouraged by Italy 's recent poor form which saw them held to a goalless draw in Scotland and then struggle to overcome Malta 2-1 . |