Example sentences of "[noun sg] [modal v] hold [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Business Monitor : Management backing the Union Andrew Griffiths looks north of the border and towards what the future might hold for Scotland |
| 2 | All she really wanted , if she could not be in his presence , was to be left alone so that she could recall and relive in her mind every moment of that morning 's encounter , and dream about what the future might hold for her . |
| 3 | As they talked about the war years and about what the future might hold for them both , Julia found herself liking Felicity more and more , although she was astonished at the freedom with which Felicity was prepared to confide in her about everything except her work during the war . |
| 4 | Jane had been hurt by her parents ' occasional references to her in newspaper interviews as being a ‘ difficult child ’ or other remarks prompted only by Laura 's nagging worries about what the future might hold for Jane . |
| 5 | Charlie picked up rumours and counter-rumours of what the future might hold for them . |
| 6 | Between the two of them there grew up so great an affection that King Henry was much alarmed and , afraid of what the future might hold in store , he decided to postpone his return to England until he knew what lay behind this sudden friendship . " |
| 7 | I simply watched an American T V news item , but it gave me a frightening vision of what the future could hold in store for us , unless we fight the Tory policies with all our might we can muster . |
| 8 | She looked at Gay , who was an only child too , but who had nobody to give her a good time , and then her glance travelled to Breeze , who had just admitted in her light-hearted fashion that she had no idea of what the future would hold for her . |
| 9 | I confirm that the Government 's nerve will hold in the context of the twin track of political progress and a robust security policy conducted under the rule of law . |
| 10 | Similarly , a knight or baron could hold of several lords . |
| 11 | while purchasing power parity may hold in the long run if real shocks are unimportant , in the short run the exchange rate is not caused by PPP considerations ; rather , with the exchange rate clearing the asset markets , variations in international competitiveness lead to equilibrating changes in the size of the traded goods sector . |
| 12 | This means that , if e ij is the exchange rate between currency 1 and currency j ( units of j per unit of i ) , the following relationship should hold between any three currencies : . |
| 13 | What I want to look at now , a new sub-heading , and it 's the relationship , right , between total , average and marginal functions As you may be aware that economists are obsessed with the concept of the margin and there 's a neat relationship a couple of relationships embedded , alright , er embedded in this relationship between total marginal and average functions that is applicable to all total marginal and average functions whether we whether we be looking at marginal cost , marginal revenue , marginal products , right , the same relationship will hold for all of them . |
| 14 | Whatever the rest of the season may hold for Aberdeen , they have on their side a ferocious competitor whose appetite for the fray has gone undiminished by time . |
| 15 | I agree that more businesses should contemplate approaching younger children and at an early stage arousing their interest in what science or engineering may hold for them . |
| 16 | ( 4 ) Each manager must hold at least one ordinary share in Newco and work for more than half his time in the " management or conduct of the company " or an associated company ; alternatively he must own more than 5% of the ordinary share capital of Newco ( the " material interest " test ) ; for these purposes , the shareholdings of any associate of an individual manager are aggregated with his holding ; " management or conduct of the company " ( rather than its business ) connotes the function of directors and senior managers , so other employees and middle management will not be able to obtain relief , since they are unlikely to have a sufficient holding in Newco to satisfy the material interest test . |
| 17 | I have not seen that report , but I have expressed before the dangers that a minimum wage policy would hold for employment levels . |
| 18 | But in order to try to keep some of America 's weaker carriers in the air he has decided to increase the limit on the stake a foreign investor can hold in an American airline from 25% to 49% . |
| 19 | His blueprint for evolving ‘ a genuine parliamentary democracy ’ will be discussed at a preparatory conference next spring which the European parliament will hold with the Council of Ministers and the bureaucratic Commission . |
| 20 | Images of guilt , of fear , of the excruciating headaches he had inflicted on himself which only the doctor could hold in check . |
| 21 | The laws of science would hold at the beginning , as elsewhere . |
| 22 | The laws of science will hold at them , just as they do at the North and South Poles on the earth . |
| 23 | The Chair is obviously referring to the fact recently in the courts , there was consideration of the closure of old persons ' homes , and you know that you are under a legal requirement to consult in respect of those otherwise any decision , to close without consultation can held to be invalid , and that has impinged on some authorities who were going down that route , so there is a duty there . |
| 24 | Although these studies apply to older children the principle should hold for younger children where management problems are frequently linked with obesity . |
| 25 | The fact that he demonstrated his interest in those eight cases , emphasised them and talked so wildly about them , shows that his concern is not with the genuine asylum seeker , but with diminishing the respect that this country should hold for people who are in desperate trouble and whom , in better and more self-confident days , hon. Members of all parties would have been in favour of helping . |
| 26 | Could mean the same idea might hold for our universe . ’ |
| 27 | At the outset I should emphasise that in the proceedings the only question raised is one of law , to be answered on the assumption that the assignments were genuine and valid transactions and that there was no arrangement or understanding that an assignee would hold for the assignor any compensation received by him from the fund . |
| 28 | If previous attempts to dictate dress are anything to go by , sartorial discipline may hold in the Politburo , but the decree will have little immediate impact in the street . |
| 29 | Such a regime may hold at the centre of galaxies or close to collapsed stars . |
| 30 | ‘ The forecast said the weather should hold until Tuesday , then more rain . |