Example sentences of "to hold [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This helped European capital to hold down real wages by raising prices . |
| 2 | We are thus faced in his later years by the paradox of a ruler who had spent his life in efforts to make his subjects prosperous and happy compelled to create a system of secret police and to hold down considerable parts of his territories by armed force . |
| 3 | Yet why should drug users in Bangkok be able to hold down steady jobs and be part of mainstream society whereas their counterparts in the USA who seek clean syringes are promptly imprisoned ? |
| 4 | Although tying up , she battled on well to hold off Flying Speed by a neck . |
| 5 | Similar customs to this , all designed to hold up social miscreants to public ridicule , can be found in many different sorts of small-scale societies . |
| 6 | It was a shocking thing , no doubt , but compared with her future , which suddenly seemed to hold out enticing prospects of a new and exciting life , it had retreated into the background . |
| 7 | I do not want to hold out false general hope , but in some cases assistance might be available . |
| 8 | The early development of the Partnership concept appeared to hold out little encouragement for the non-statutory sector . |
| 9 | In the immediate post-war years there was an attempt to absolve the bureaucracy of responsibility for externally aggressive and internally repressive policies , by pointing out the ways in which bureaucrats had tried to hold back military excesses . |