Example sentences of "[not/n't] [be] [verb] hold " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , one has to ask whether the court would not be tempted to hold that the clause was not only unenforceable under s 2(1) but also failed the reasonableness test under s 2(2) . |
| 2 | Even those entries — unquestionably the majority — which represent profits accruing from physical possession of land can not be assumed to hold a uniform significance . |
| 3 | FIMBRA had also concluded that their sole proprietor members should not be authorised to hold client money . |
| 4 | In the past , many students were so petrified about stalling that they could not be persuaded to hold off properly for the landing . |
| 5 | The relationship between k and r is one that can not be guaranteed to hold when we allow for the heterogeneity of capital , as the debate on ‘ 'reswitching ’ has brought out ( see for example Bliss , 1975 , and Harcourt , 1972 ) . |
| 6 | After the Ebro , Catalonia could not be expected to hold on for long , and if Catalonia fell the rest of Republican Spain was likely to follow . |
| 7 | For its part , the Phnom Penh government insisted that the " obstacle " of the former ruler must not be allowed to hold up the peace process , and denied that he had to be SNC chair under September 's Jakarta agreement on setting up the SNC . |
| 8 | Walloon Socialists reluctantly conceded that French-speakers living in Flanders ( including the controversial José Happart ) should not be allowed to hold political office in Wallonia . |
| 9 | ‘ We do not want to bypass the elected representatives , but they can not be allowed to hold up progress . |
| 10 | She remembered how she had n't been allowed to hold him for more than a moment before he had to go back behind the bars of his crib . |
| 11 | Kuffs ( 15 ) is a comedy-thriller about George Kuffs ( Christian Slater ) , an irresponsible youth who drops out of San Francisco high school , walks out on his pregnant girlfriend ( Milla Jovovich ) and ca n't be bothered to hold down a job . |
| 12 | What if the caller rang and could n't be bothered to hold on ? |