Example sentences of "[pron] [be] held for " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are also a number of trophies which are held for one year ; the Willis Graham Cup is awarded for the champion berry in the show , judged solely by weight . |
| 2 | A psychological rationalization could be said to be a justification for a position , which is held for reasons not related to the justification . |
| 3 | That is t to er that is land which is held for expansion purposes , clearly identified by firms as meeting their expansion needs . |
| 4 | Meanwhile two people who were held for questioning over the weekend have been released without charge . |
| 5 | The hostages , who were held for 444 days following the seizure of the US embassy in Tehran in September 1979 , were released within minutes of Reagan being sworn in as President on Jan. 21 , 1981 . |
| 6 | Four other men , who were held for questioning , have now been eliminated from police inquiries . |
| 7 | That was in keeping with the respect in which she is held for her tireless work , especially on behalf of the world 's children . |
| 8 | She was held for forty five minutes and at times , she says , she feared for her life . |
| 9 | After the game we were held for exactly one hour , then herded onto to a train which did n't move for 40 minutes . |
| 10 | There is no National Insurance on the company 's contributions to the fund , and the employee pays no income tax on the shares allocated to him or her provided they are held for at least five years . |
| 11 | The people arrested were taken to separate police stations across Merseyside where they were held for questioning . |
| 12 | It means Jim Courier retains the pole position he 's held for all but 12 weeks of 1992 . |
| 13 | Then on 14 June 1985 TWA Flight 847 was hijacked and forced to land at Beirut where , before the world 's television cameras , it was held for 17 days . |
| 14 | But that Moorish Negress was so skilful in drawing the Turkish bow , that it was held for a marvel , and it is said that they called her in Arabic Nugueymat Turya , which is to say , the Star of the Archers . |
| 15 | That was the lure of Persia — the fantastic attractions it was held for Westerner ever since the seventeenth century , when traders , ambassadors and princes began to bring back exotic spices , silks and tales . |
| 16 | He was held for four hours and beaten with a truncheon . |
| 17 | Meanwhile he was held for seventeen months in prison in Oxford , where a debate was staged in which Cranmer and bishops Latimer and Ridley were pitted against selected scholars from Oxford and Cambridge . |
| 18 | His official car was intercepted in the centre of Vilnius , and he was taken in handcuffs to the OMON headquarters outside the city , where he was held for questioning for nearly 12 hours before being released . |