Example sentences of "[being] hold [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even more prisoners , about 60 , are currently being held under equivalent provisions in the nominally independent ‘ homelands ’ of the Transkei and Bophuthatswana . |
| 2 | The couple , arrested after a lengthy intelligence operation , are being held under the Prevention of Terrorism Act . |
| 3 | Moya , a seemingly relaxed woman in her forties , described her attacks , which she has been having for 20 years , as ‘ an enormous blackness and fear , like being held under water ’ . |
| 4 | An army spokesman pointed out to journalists that the men were being held under anti-terrorist legislation and added that they had already been interrogated and had been ‘ singing like birds ’ , a phrase from the criminal underworld implying that they had confessed to crimes . |
| 5 | Three other men arrested later are still being held under the PTA at central London police stations . |
| 6 | The administration strongly opposed the bill , arguing that it would violate existing textile agreements with 38 countries , would undermine two multinational agreements , and would severely damage the current " Uruguay Round " of trade talks being held under the auspices of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) . |
| 7 | By June 6 about 300 such detainees were being held under light security in Addis Ababa , and the interim government had stated that they were to be tried in the presence of international observers . |
| 8 | The upshot was that Hauptmann Alfred Horn — if that was indeed his name — had been transferred next morning from the Tower to a miserable country house near Aldershot called Mytchett Place , where he was being held under extremely heavy guard . |
| 9 | The report said that at least 50 people were being held without charge in " preventive " detention , and further stated that many hundreds of people were being held without proper trial , among them at least 90 political prisoners who were tried by special courts , over half of whom had been sentenced to death . |
| 10 | The report said that at least 50 people were being held without charge in " preventive " detention , and further stated that many hundreds of people were being held without proper trial , among them at least 90 political prisoners who were tried by special courts , over half of whom had been sentenced to death . |
| 11 | Woodworking and DIY workshops are also being held during the exhibition , where leading exponents of their crafts will be demonstrating . |
| 12 | Festivals are being held across the County of Humberside throughout the year . |
| 13 | The intense heat of being held over a gas jet will cause immediate and permanent discolouring . |
| 14 | I hope that I will have an opportunity to meet many students in the forthcoming series of meetings being held through the regional actuarial societies . |
| 15 | On November 17 , the TUC is organising a regional day of action and on November 25 a torchlight procession is being held through Bootle to the expanding coal terminal at Gladstone Dock . |
| 16 | The man had been forced to his feet and was being held between two Security men , his head bowed in shame , his hands trembling with fear . |
| 17 | Oumarou Aman , Cameroon : released from labour camp in January 1991 after being held for more than six years without charge or trial . |
| 18 | FIVE Irishmen arrested in an early-morning raid on a Cheltenham hotel yesterday were last night being held for questioning under the Prevention of Terrorism Act . |
| 19 | Police were unwilling to comment in detail on the problem yesterday , with inquiries continuing into the Three Star killing and a man being held for questioning . |
| 20 | In early April two young farm labourers , Valdecir Ferreira and Altair Gomes , narrowly escaped death when a mob 1,500-strong stormed and set fire to the prison where they were being held for the gory knife murder of a taxi-driver , in the state of Parana . |
| 21 | A WOMAN escaped unharmed with her 11-month-old son yesterday after being held for 45 minutes by a knife-wielding kidnapper . |
| 22 | There was no longer as large an area in which to transport cattle secretly away from the scene of the crime and in which to hide animals being held for ransom . |
| 23 | In 1968 , President Kaunda addressed the International press Institute 's annual assembly , then being held for the first time in an independent , black-ruled African nation : African countries , he said , had ‘ gone out of their way ’ to encourage the foreign press to report African affairs . |
| 24 | Maze fugitive Jim Smyth , 38 , was released in San Francisco after being held for passport offences . |
| 25 | In many ports , joint meetings of shipowners and men were being held for the discussion of grievances . |
| 26 | The previous November , the government had assented to the idea of an annual White Paper on expenditure and a debate , the paper being published and the debate being held for the first time in the winter of 1969–70 . |
| 27 | Instead of all this fake indignation , when will he own up to the fact that most of the local authorities , including my own of Knowsley , have empty properties because they are being held for improvement under schemes in which the Government are involved after 13 years in which they have neglected to fund local authority and other housing stock ? |
| 28 | A CHINESE man was dead as scores of Chinese being held for deportation attacked guards in an attempt to escape from a detention camp in Honduras , authorities said last night . |
| 29 | K. Doraiswamy , executive director of the Indian Oil Corporation , was freed on Aug. 20 after being held for 55 days by the Ikhwan-ul-Muslameen group . |
| 30 | An amnesty was also granted to a number of unidentified people being held for breach of national security . |