Example sentences of "holds for [det] " in BNC.

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1 Since the work of S. S. Stevens in the 1930s and later , it has been recognized that , although the Weber-Fechner Law holds for many sorts of sensory experience , the exponent varies widely ; nevertheless , the principle of a quantitative correlation between external stimulus , neural activity and experienced sensation remains intact and now appears to be well-established .
2 A significant aspect of her work is that it always broaches the boundaries between the traditional disciplines of philosophy , psychoanalysis , literary , and art theory ; the implications it holds for each are touched on by the essays in this collection ( for instance , Ainley , ‘ The Ethics of Sexual Difference ’ ; O'Connor , ‘ The An-Arche of Psychotherapy ’ ; Minow-Pinkney , ‘ Virginia Woolf : ‘ Seen from a Foreign Land' ’ ; and Burgin , ‘ Geometry and Abjection ’ ) .
3 The number of steps to the ladder and number of trials for each step is negotiable , but the general principle of graded systematic exposure , facing up to the difficulty and learning to cope with it , holds for each of these cases .
4 These are not , however , the same kind of truth ; for the first holds for all time and every place , whereas the second has to do with a specific event which as a matter of fact took place at a particular point in history .
5 These studies were not " wrong " , but it would be wrong to conclude that this pattern of interest-group politics holds for all issues .
6 Suppose the result holds for all simpler triples ( P' , Q' , R' ) .
7 Furthermore , if the components of two tensors can be shown to be equal in a particular coordinate system , i.e. then because the corresponding components of and transform identically the equality holds for all coordinate frames including , of course , accelerating frames .
8 Clearly there is no complete consensus regarding the effects of emotional arousal on memory , the reason for this is that there is no single simple relationship which holds for all types and degrees of arousal on all types of memory performance .
9 The above explanation holds for all the verbs of perception .
10 They seemed to go some way towards encapsulating the challenges that the notion of a shift of power to students holds for those immediately Involved .
11 The point also holds for those postgraduate courses which are hardly more than programmes of professional training .
12 The number of matrices B which diagonalise A in this manner is indefinitely large : to prove the theorem we need only show that it holds for any two .
13 A similar argument holds for any other commodity we try to tax .
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