Example sentences of "was held [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it was disappointing that a new international instrument on ‘ disappearances ’ was held over for further study . |
| 2 | Accepting the logic of this situation the matter was held over for further review at a later Department Head meeting . |
| 3 | The start of trading on the New York and American Stock Exchanges was held up for an hour yesterday after a fire , caused by an electrical fault , broke out in the building housing the exchanges ' computer systems , writes Mary Brasier in New York . |
| 4 | When this happened the traffic was held up for three of four days whilst the track was repaired . |
| 5 | Proper planning was held up for a time until the route of the M4 was decided , as an early outline brought it through Harpsden and over Peppard . |
| 6 | Officials from the HSE told MPs that their work on implementing the recommendation of Britain 's advisory committee on asbestos was held up for two years while they worked on the EEC plan . |
| 7 | Despite a 150-strong police presence , traffic was held up for two hours as the farmers taunted Britons , shouting and waving banners which read ‘ Britain is an island . |
| 8 | There were no serious injuries , but one passenger was cut by flying glass and traffic was held up for over an hour . |
| 9 | The arrival of the Italian soldiers was held up for a time while the Italian government bargained for an Italian to command the UN forces ( the commander is , as it happens , a Brazilian ) . |
| 10 | The morning train from Sidney picked up milk from various farms for shipment to Victoria and on at least one occasion it was held up for two hours while cows , that had been turned into the bush the previous night to pick up what nourishment they could were searched for , rounded up , milked and the milk loaded for the trip to town . |
| 11 | Then the subway train was held up for twenty minutes . |
| 12 | The combined heat and power industry was held up for many years because it was in the hands of a state monopoly . |
| 13 | Then the funeral was held up for a few days , and we soon realised that the effect was indeed cosmetic and nothing more . |
| 14 | MGM was not quite as happy with The Crowd ( 1928 ) , which was held back for a year and temporarily given a happy ending and which proved only to be as Kine Weekly predicted ‘ a sound box office success ’ rather than a runaway winner . |