Example sentences of "hold [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has 10% of world proven oil reserves , second only to Saudi Arabia , and in terms of probable oil resources holds about one-seventh of the world 's potential . |
| 2 | With a workforce of 160 , Boursin holds about one third of the French speciality cheese market in France and exports to the UK , Benelux , Switzerland and Germany . |
| 3 | A second variable is the syntactic relation which holds between individual atomic descriptions , so conjoining atomic individuals through the use of and , for instance , is taken as a very strong influence in bringing about felicitous plural reference . |
| 4 | A relation is said to be transitive if the fact that it holds between two elements A and B , and also between B and some third element C , guarantees that it holds between A and C. The relation ’ — is longer than — ’ is thus transitive , because if A is longer than B , and B is longer than C , we can be sure that A is longer than C. In the case of an intransitive relation , on the other hand , the fact that it held between A and B , and between B and C , would entail that it did not hold between A and C. For instance , if A were the father of B , and B the father of C , then A could not be the father of C ; the relation ’ — father of — ’ is thus intransitive . |
| 5 | Instead of denoting a direct relationship between words and extra-linguistic objects , reference is limited here to the relationship of identity which holds between two linguistic expressions . |
| 6 | This means that the following relationship holds between modified duration and bond prices . |
| 7 | It holds between 3,000 and 4,000 altogether , but it can also be divided up by electronically controlled , walls to give one area of half its size and two quarter areas . |
| 8 | Many common locutions are semantically well-formed only if an appropriate semantic relation holds between certain of their lexical constituents . |
| 9 | The entire Sussex coast including these Harbours holds between 35,000 and 57,000 waders , the numbers varying annually , perhaps mainly affected by the severity or otherwise of the winter . |
| 10 | Such connection is what is stated by independent nomic conditionals and , of course , holds between any two things when it is true that if or since the first occurred , then even if any change logically consistent with either had also occurred , the second would still have occurred . |
| 11 | If we can establish through very careful analysis what the ratio are between certain elements and each other then that ratio also holds between any given element and total salinity , yes ? |
| 12 | Since the work of S. S. Stevens in the 1930s and later , it has been recognized that , although the Weber-Fechner Law holds for many sorts of sensory experience , the exponent varies widely ; nevertheless , the principle of a quantitative correlation between external stimulus , neural activity and experienced sensation remains intact and now appears to be well-established . |
| 13 | A significant aspect of her work is that it always broaches the boundaries between the traditional disciplines of philosophy , psychoanalysis , literary , and art theory ; the implications it holds for each are touched on by the essays in this collection ( for instance , Ainley , ‘ The Ethics of Sexual Difference ’ ; O'Connor , ‘ The An-Arche of Psychotherapy ’ ; Minow-Pinkney , ‘ Virginia Woolf : ‘ Seen from a Foreign Land' ’ ; and Burgin , ‘ Geometry and Abjection ’ ) . |
| 14 | The number of steps to the ladder and number of trials for each step is negotiable , but the general principle of graded systematic exposure , facing up to the difficulty and learning to cope with it , holds for each of these cases . |
| 15 | But if this is a feature of modern society and its thought patterns , then inescapably the point holds for higher education as well . |
| 16 | The second working party , set up by the General Practitioner Board , is also looking at training but within the wider context of what the future holds for small accountancy practices . |
| 17 | He shows that , where there is an interior solution for the amount of bequest or gift across generations , then the Ricardian result holds for small variations in debt . |
| 18 | This holds for modern society as well . |
| 19 | These are not , however , the same kind of truth ; for the first holds for all time and every place , whereas the second has to do with a specific event which as a matter of fact took place at a particular point in history . |
| 20 | These studies were not " wrong " , but it would be wrong to conclude that this pattern of interest-group politics holds for all issues . |
| 21 | Suppose the result holds for all simpler triples ( P' , Q' , R' ) . |
| 22 | Furthermore , if the components of two tensors can be shown to be equal in a particular coordinate system , i.e. then because the corresponding components of and transform identically the equality holds for all coordinate frames including , of course , accelerating frames . |
| 23 | Clearly there is no complete consensus regarding the effects of emotional arousal on memory , the reason for this is that there is no single simple relationship which holds for all types and degrees of arousal on all types of memory performance . |
| 24 | The above explanation holds for all the verbs of perception . |
| 25 | Whilst much of our discussion has been conducted with reference to South Eastern secretarial/office staff , its substance holds for other regional/occupational labour markets too . |
| 26 | If so , the fact that a dependence thesis is true of theoretical authorities is strong evidence to suppose that it holds for practical authorities as well . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Then , using Lemma 3 , we have for general P , Q , R : unc Now because the few elements F of the first set which are not of the form unc are easily proved ( using the laws ) equivalent to ones that are , using the laws , e.g. unc By our assumption that the result holds for finite processes this in turn is equal to unc Since we are in the process of setting up powerful machinery for dealing with finite programs ( for example Theorem 1 ) there are advantages in only having to prove new laws for them . |
| 29 | They seemed to go some way towards encapsulating the challenges that the notion of a shift of power to students holds for those immediately Involved . |
| 30 | The point also holds for those postgraduate courses which are hardly more than programmes of professional training . |