Example sentences of "hold any " in BNC.

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1 Mr Browne , MP for Winchester since 1979 , said he was defending the right of his constituents to decide who they wished to have as MP , and added : ‘ None of the five ex-supporters is either my election agent or holds any other official appointment within my organisation . ’
2 Sixthly , a councillor ceases to be a member if he takes or holds any paid office or employment ( other than that of chairman ) , the appointment to which is made by the council .
3 Does Patrick Jenkin really believe that microelectronics holds any hope for the unemployed ( The unemployed can not blame automation , 24 February , p 526 ) ?
4 Does Patrick Jenkin ( The unemployed can not blame automation , 24 February , p 526 ) really believe that microelectronics holds any hope for the unemployed ?
5 For the first three months Barfield is officially the ER businesses ' proprietor and holds any surplus funds they generate .
6 They are also completely fearless — having long since confronted their own vision of world destruction , nothing holds any terror for them any longer .
7 The slimline track holds any weight of curtains and can be easily fitted around a bay window or on a straight run .
8 Sir Humphrey has just 100 shares in Velcro , but neither son holds any shares .
9 No director holds any interest in the issued share capital of the company .
10 If the creditor holds any security , he must specify the nature and value of the security and the demand must be for the unsecured portion of the creditor 's claim only .
11 ( 8 ) In the event that a Member holds any Shares or a beneficial owner has an interest in any Shares in the Company in such circumstances that the Rules are broken the Directors may at any time resolve that the Member holding the Shares concerned shall ( unless he shall have already given a Transfer Notice ) be deemed to have given a Transfer Notice in respect of such Shares .
12 ( 8 ) In the event that a Member holds any Shares or a beneficial owner has an interest in any Shares in the Company in such circumstances that the Rules are broken the Directors may at any time resolve that the Member holding the Shares concerned shall ( unless he shall have already given a Transfer Notice ) be deemed to have given a Transfer Notice in respect of such Shares .
13 ‘ When you look at our results , the deflected goals we have had against CSKA and Brugge , and the way we fought back after being two goals down to Marseille , nothing holds any fears for us . ’
14 Did Hollywood and the underground film-makers , in particular , hold any responsibility for such behaviour ?
15 And hold any calls till I buzz , will you . ’
16 They never hold any open hearings .
17 If you or your wife or husband hold any other General Accident motor insurance policy , we will only pay out under one policy .
18 If you or your wife or husband hold any other General Accident motor insurance policy , we will only pay out under one policy .
19 Did the fact that the film presented the IRA man ( played by Stephen Rea ) as a complex character with a conscience , and contained fast action scenes , glamorize or hold any brief for terrorism ?
20 National Savings Certificates are paying a miserable 7.5 per cent tax free and no one should be holding any certificates which have reached maturity as the rate paid under general extension terms is only 5.1 per cent .
21 In the event of a second conviction for a like offence , a member is liable , in addition to the penalties already named , to be adjudged to be for ever incapable of holding any public office , and to be incapable for five years of being registered as an elector or voting at an election either of members to serve in Parliament or of members of any public body .
22 Embsay General Manager Mr Stephen Walker explained : ‘ We certainly do celebrate our 25th anniversary next year but we wo n't be holding any big anniversary events and the loan of the 4F is n't really anything to do with this .
23 These fees included a charge of at least £2,500 which increased on a scale related to the length of the proposed railway , to anything up to £75,000 and also included the cost for holding any public inquiry that was deemed necessary .
24 The crowd , M. Grimaud stated , thought his art was fraudulent and Frederica , trying in vain to imagine any English football crowd holding any communal view about any modern artist , suddenly remembered the Picasso prints on the walls of Alexander Wedderburn 's study in Blesford Ride School .
25 After the Restoration he was one of those not actually attainted but perpetually disabled from holding any office .
26 In sum , then , one can say little more on the basis of the scanty information available than that Molla Yegan appears to have abandoned his official posts by at least 844/1440–1 ; to have returned from his journey to the Hijaz , in company with Molla Gurani , whom he presented at the Ottoman court , not earlier than alter the pilgrimage of 844/1441 but very possibly not much later ; if not to have continued to be a figure of some importance in the state until at least 857/1453 , to have re-emerged as such then , though without , apparently , holding any official post ; and to have died at some time alter that date , perhaps in 878/1473–4 .
27 I am not necessarily holding any brief for some of the activities of certain unions with members working in the North sea .
28 Berisha , a 47-year-old cardiologist , had previously been a member of the SPA , although never holding any important office in the former ruling party .
29 On June 5 a spokesman for the NPFL denied over the rebel radio station at Gbarnga that the Front was holding any ECOMOG troops .
30 ( 2 ) The Compensation Fund covenant shall include a covenant by the covenantor that before transferring any share or transferring a beneficial interest in any share or holding any share as nominee he or it will ensure that the intended transferee or beneficial owner submits a Compensation Fund covenant to the Council .
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