Example sentences of "[adv] hold " in BNC.
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| 1 | This pricing apparently holds for multi-user sites of up to four users . |
| 2 | Those 15 hours of waiting on Tuesday made Palestinians inside and outside the occupied territories realise the extent to which Yasser Arafat alone holds the whole movement together . |
| 3 | While a black floor manager literally holds Hall 's protesting publicist back , a confused Jazzie B settles for proffering thanks and sharing a shapshot . |
| 4 | But Earls Court only holds 20,000 and Maine Road football stadium had a capacity of 50,000 , so people looking at the crowds at Manchester always saw one empty or thinly populated stand . |
| 5 | The manor has long since been broken up and sold off and Andrew now only holds small pieces of land , though these include some of the grass and trees where the proclamation is made . |
| 6 | After all , Twickenham only holds 65,000 people , so what about the other fans throughout the country ? |
| 7 | But the attempt to assure us that directors are controlled by their shareholders must fail , for no matter how far the law goes in strengthening the powers conferred upon shareholders to monitor the managers of their company the reality is that where each shareholder only holds a tiny proportion of the share capital of the company none of the shareholders will avail themselves of the powers given to them to monitor the management . |
| 8 | He not only holds the far west living of Queen Thorne — which comprises the Hardyesque village roll-call of Over Compton , Nether Compton , Poyntington , Sandford Orcas and Trent — but farms his own glebe land ( Hereford steers and Texel Cross sheep ) . |
| 9 | The made-from part drawing file only holds details of the modification to the original , base part . |
| 10 | However , we see the thesis as overambitious since it only holds for certain groups and issues and for a particular period of British politics — and that period , may have passed at least for the moment . |
| 11 | The deckhouse only holds four . " |
| 12 | For complexes of heavy transition elements , however , spin-orbit coupling may lead to a relaxation of this rule , which only holds as long as the total spin quantum number S has physical meaning , and so spin-forbidden bands may be found to have reasonable intensity . |
| 13 | Indeed , some verbs seem to have no lexical content beyond one which is aimed at providing some kind of reservation about applicability of the adjectival property , examples being become and turn which place a temporal restriction on the adjective 's applicability ; the subordinate property only holds after the time indicated by the tense of the verb . |
| 14 | I can however advise you that as of 1 May 1984 Sheriff Courts were empowered to grant divorces and in order to check whether the divorce was granted by a Sheriff Court you should apply to the Registrar General , General Search Unit , New Register House , Edinburgh as this office only holds records of divorces granted in the Court of Session . |
| 15 | The law only holds under certain conditions : The temperature must be constant . |
| 16 | Did classical theory surreptitiously admit the quantity theory of money — a theory which only holds good at full employment — through the back door in order to fix the price level independently of the level of money wages ? |
| 17 | THE Poultry Association of Northern Ireland only holds its conference every other year . |
| 18 | a really beautiful room , but it only holds about forty , fifty people , what she 's gon na do is push the weddings , but she 's gon na , and say look , you can use this place |
| 19 | I do n't know if you noticed , but just outside the door , where the ground 's trodden , the grass thins , and there 's a slight hollow that obviously holds water every time it rains , and only dries out gradually in between — nice smooth black mud like double-cream . |
| 20 | Before the adventurers can really take in this chamber , a skeletal figure clad in a tatty , filth-encrusted black robe standing not far from the door eagerly holds out its hands to them , one of which holds a hot branding iron . |
| 21 | ‘ This time we rehearsed in England for three weeks and then flew to Houston , Texas , and rehearsed in the Goodyear Blimp hangar , because the screens the band use are so huge that we had to find a place big enough hold them ! |
| 22 | Whereas a white youth may have visions of becoming a successful sportsman , his parents may have a strong enough hold over him to deflect him and set him on course for a ‘ straight ’ job ; often this is not the case with blacks . |
| 23 | Carnivorous plants apparently hold a macabre fascination for gardeners and they 're becoming increasingly popular . |
| 24 | These conditions only hold as long as |
| 25 | These figures only hold accurately for large files — 100 or more tracks in extent — although they will act as a guide even for very small files . |
| 26 | In Britain , the party machines are relatively weak and only hold meetings , choose candidates , run election campaigns and hold conferences . |
| 27 | These conditions only hold as long as : |
| 28 | Heaven and Hell not only hold no terrors or promises for them — they no longer even exist as figures of speech . |
| 29 | I ca n't do anything with him , only hold him . ’ |
| 30 | And what happens is that females , females have pouches that produce eggs but they only hold a small , they only hold a small volume . |