Example sentences of "they hold [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the royal forests were granted to them to hold in fee . |
| 2 | For many publishers , however , the strength of their information holdings and the rights they hold over them , may suggest a quite different response . |
| 3 | Both Andy Saunders and Peter Dimond impressed the writer with the depth of vision they hold about what TMAM faces in the future and the exact definition of the path it needs to take . |
| 4 | And philosophers talk of ‘ sensations ’ in this connection because of views they hold about perception . |
| 5 | They may hold these views about perception because of views they hold about our nature and the nature of the things we look at . |
| 6 | Political scientists and economists differ in the views they hold about the extent to which central government ought to control the activities of local government . |
| 7 | Now these companies must reveal , if asked , where the data they hold on you came from — whether , for example , they have bought or rented a list from another organisation or collected the information themselves . |
| 8 | what they hold on the shoulders |
| 9 | Individual schools and Individual teachers differ widely from one another , not least in the expectations they hold of their pupils . |
| 10 | First their report was published as a booklet , ‘ Hire purchase and Credit Buying ’ , which gave factual information about the various methods and the legislation controlling them , their advantages and disadvantages and the dangers they hold for thoughtless or inexperienced people ; and also a leaflet setting out some of the points to be taken into account when undertaking hire purchase . |
| 11 | Remember they will send the claim form to the last recorded address they hold for you , so if you have moved and not informed them do make sure they have your new address . |
| 12 | The perceptions of their interests by the two parties may not always be entirely accurate , or they may change over time , but there can be no doubt of the importance they hold for local government structure . |
| 13 | Ultimately the attractiveness of MINIS-type systems to public sector managers lies in the comprehensive picture which they can provide of organizational activities , and also in the potential which they hold for decentralization within departments . |
| 14 | If it was not for the Grand Slam tournaments and the unique place they hold in the game , I am sure we would be losing this vital battle . ’ |
| 15 | The Hill Samuel plan envisages splitting off the UK naval and avionics businesses and giving shareholders one share in the new company for every share they hold in the existing organisation . |
| 16 | In the first of these a group of libraries cooperate because of a factor or factors which they hold in common — usually their subject field or their geographical location . |
| 17 | Their holders would adopt the same position of relative irrelevance that they hold in the republican democracies of Europe . |
| 18 | They were not forewarned of the final paragraph , added by a Vatican envoy : ‘ There is no way the Bishops could want to be disrespectful to His Excellency the Life President of the Republic , whom they hold in high esteem . ’ |
| 19 | They receive information on it from people they trust , and whose opinion they hold in high regard . |
| 20 | The Evangelical party will perhaps continue to exalt their hero as partially as parties always do — but the members of it will act thus only so far as they are possessed by party spirit , rather than by the pure spirit of the doctrines which they hold in common with their so-called Catholic opponents , whom adversaries style popish . |
| 21 | Then the rest of the year was covered , a month at a time , by each of seven vassals , in return for the fiefs they held of the count . |
| 22 | They held on 78 minutes , when Colchester player manager Roy McDonough made it 2-0 . |
| 23 | The matter has now come to the High Court for an Order that this is the position and the High Court has ruled that companies and directors are entitled to set off deposits they held at BCCI against company overdrafts ( see Financial Times , 28/29 November 1992 ) . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | They held for seconds , their gasping suddenly drowned by heavy machine gun fire ending with a scream from somewhere close by . |
| 28 | The movies had been born in big cities and had depended initially on the attraction that they held for working people who found themselves crowded either as permanent residents or transients in those cities . |
| 29 | They held onto the rock and waved and shouted at the lighthouse as loud as they could . |
| 30 | But with Party Politics galloping on strongly up the run-in , Llewellyn always had victory in his sights and they held off Romany King for a popular win at 14–1 . |