Example sentences of "hold [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | This means that the following relationship holds between modified duration and bond prices . |
| 3 | Many common locutions are semantically well-formed only if an appropriate semantic relation holds between certain of their lexical constituents . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This holds for modern society as well . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | This pricing apparently holds for multi-user sites of up to four users . |
| 12 | The law only holds under certain conditions : The temperature must be constant . |
| 13 | Integrity holds within political communities , not among them , so any opinion we have about the scope of the requirement of coherence makes assumptions about the size and character of these communities . |
| 14 | Therefore merely the thought of exchanging gifts with the people she holds in mutual contempt was more awful than the prospect of being without her sons on Christmas Day . |
| 15 | He thought this was mainly a matter of size , but the preference holds in other places ( e.g. The Bristol Channel ) where the two barnacles are more evenly matched in this respect . |
| 16 | To the BBC SSO , whom he holds in great affection — he first came to Scotland in 1988 for their Festival of New Chinese Music — he has gifted a new work , Death and the Fire : a dialogue with Paul Klee , to be premiered on 27 March . |
| 17 | Play , sleep , sexual behaviour and other proceedings are differently distributed typically — at different ages , in a way that broadly holds across cultural barriers . |
| 18 | It likewise holds across national boundaries and is independent of political systems . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Hence the alleged attraction that Black men hold for lower-class women , a popular belief that dates back many years . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | In this chapter Pamela Wadsworth discusses some of the ideas that primary children hold about natural events and processes and how these influence their learning in school . |
| 23 | Beginning with this chapter , and running through to chapter 12 , the principal topics of discussion will be various types of semantic relation which hold between lexical units of the kind established in chapter 3 . |
| 24 | These are relations which hold between lexical items whose syntactic distributions only partially coincide . |
| 25 | Since substitution and ellipsis are purely grammatical relations which hold between linguistic forms rather than between linguistic forms and their meanings , the details are highly language-specific and are therefore not worth going into here . |
| 26 | All social classes are to be found in all tenure groups , although to a very unequal degree , and tenure differences still hold within social classes and categories of education ( Murphy and Sullivan 1985 ) . |
| 27 | If only they had asked for Donald Duck , a character I hold in great respect ! |
| 28 | Raise camcorder and hold in comfortable position . |
| 29 | 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 . ’ |
| 30 | They receive information on it from people they trust , and whose opinion they hold in high regard . |