Example sentences of "holding to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ruskin 's espousal of a craftsmanly aesthetics , Robinson points out , is grounded in Christian convictions about the humility proper to a fallen creature : lacking such grounds , Pound 's holding to the craftsmanly not only seems arbitrary and unargued , it is as often presumptuous as humble . |
| 2 | The suit had been brought by Martin Edwards , the United chairman and controlling shareholder , who has agreed to sell his 50.6 per cent holding to Knighton for £10m . |
| 3 | Merchant bank Morgan Grenfell rose 16p to 406p , with suggestions resurfacing that insurance broker Willis Faber had sold its 20.5 per cent holding to a Continental predator . |
| 4 | ‘ When he did so , he would have been holding to an instinctive belief that the signal behind him would inevitably have gone to red . |
| 5 | For both investments there is a special holding limit of £10,000 for those reinvesting mature fixed , and index-linked certificates in addition to the normal limit , which increases the maximum total individual holding to £20,000 . |
| 6 | At the time of King William 's visit in 1861 , Prussian policy had been simply that of holding to the treaties of 1815 with no thought of altering the status quo . |
| 7 | If deep love exists and that loving is complete , then this blend and harmony can be brought about by all forms of physical closeness — from touching and holding to the complete sexual act . |
| 8 | Then it became apparent that she was holding to some other lodestar . |
| 9 | Conversion is achieved by transferring the nominee holding to the beneficial owner . |
| 10 | Talc Technology has recently sold a majority holding to Ivernia West for £125,000 . |
| 11 | As the difficulties in holding to it become clear so we examine the exact opposite — its antithesis . |
| 12 | The officer 's life was ‘ almost certainly ’ saved by the fact that one bullet became embedded in a radio handset he had been holding to his ear . |
| 13 | One considers oneself able to be a Christian while holding to these principles because one believes that these very principles are fundamental to Christianity , or at least not incommensurate with it . |
| 14 | In other words , Athens was still holding to the idea of a central Greek , religiously based land empire . |
| 15 | ‘ And when you need to give her more chloroform , ’ he said , ‘ hand the leg you are holding to Rose — you may take them both on your shoulders if you will , Rose ; it 's important that she does n't regain consciousness during the actual birth . ’ |
| 16 | To allow the advantages of fund holding to be enjoyed by more patients and doctors , I am pleased to announce that we are lowering the list size eligibility criterion from 9,000 patients to 7,000 patients for practices entering the scheme from April 1993 . |
| 17 | Proportion of holding to issued share capital ( NB : the effective proportion may be different for IHT and CGT purposes ) . |
| 18 | assuming shares are acquired , the percentage holding to be acquired ; |
| 19 | Climbing to his feet , the tall sheriff pocketed the small hand-mirror he had been holding to Grant 's lips . |
| 20 | European Community ( EC ) Finance Ministers in early October allocated Albania a balance-of-payments support grant worth ECU70,000,000 , conditional upon Albania concluding an agreement with the IMF and holding to its recommendations ( ECU1=US$1.39013 as at Oct. 5 , 1992 ) . |
| 21 | Indeed , only by holding to a very diffuse and very general understanding of social theory is it possible to see many of these views and their exponents as representatives of the same general theoretical approach . |
| 22 | His life had almost certainly been saved by the fact that one bullet had hit a radio handset he had been holding to his ear . |
| 23 | The problem comes when your parents have a slight concern for what you are doing , ( as mine do ) , + it gives the impression that you are still tightly holding to the old apron-strings . |