Example sentences of "[been] held " in BNC.
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| 1 | Military units have frequently carried out arrests and failed promptly to hand over detainees to the police — a number have been held beyond the 72-hour-limit . |
| 2 | Hundreds of Afghan political prisoners have reportedly been held without charge or trial for up to nine years in interrogation centres and segregated prison blocks operated by the Ministry of State Security . |
| 3 | They had been held in the Military Prison outside Kuwait City , some for over a month , reportedly in deplorable conditions . |
| 4 | Some detainees have been held for as long as seven years without charge or trial . |
| 5 | Two prisoners of conscience in Laos have been held for over 15 years for ‘ re-education ’ . |
| 6 | Among the hundreds of those held without charge or trial in Syria are the following who have appeared in the Letter Writing Campaign : Hakem Sultan al-Faiz , a 61-year-old Jordanian national and former member of the National Command of the Arab Socialist Ba'th Party , who has been held for almost 20 years ; Ahmad ‘ Abd al-Rau'uf Roummou , a 55-year-old teacher , arrested in 1975 ; Muhammad Nabil Salem , an engineer , arrested in the wake of a one-day national strike in 1980 and Mahmud Jalbut , a Palestinian arrested in 1980 . |
| 7 | In 1983 AI learned of the release of a group of Jehovah 's Witnesses who had been held without trial since 1978 . |
| 8 | The prisoners have been held incommunicado for eighteen years . |
| 9 | ‘ And saying , ’ said Wendy , ‘ that he 's been held up at a confinement when he 's forgotten all about somebody . ’ |
| 10 | Talks are believed to have been held with Thorn EMI , whose defence interests are up for sale . |
| 11 | Earnings per share for the first half were reduced to 5.47p , against 7.83p last time , but the interim dividend has been held at 1.5p . |
| 12 | This script began with Aunt Lilian 's release from the shabby asylum in which she had been held for decades . |
| 13 | In the south of France hundreds of house sales have been held up because there is no one available to process the tax-related paperwork involved . |
| 14 | David Ormerod , a geology lecturer at the Open University , has been held in Oradea , Romania , for the past three days , after being picked up at the main crossing point into Hungary . |
| 15 | He himself paid two fruitless visits to the site of a camp near Torzhok , 200 miles north of Moscow , where as late as 1987 Wallenberg was said to have been held . |
| 16 | Daphne Parish , a British nurse , has been held incommunicado since last month for giving information on casualties caused by an explosion at an Iraqi missile plant in August . |
| 17 | Altogether 70 by-elections have been held since 7 September . |
| 18 | Over two thousand telegrams , mainly concerning the supply of the Famine areas , had been held up inside Siberia . |
| 19 | There is much local opposition to this scheme and a public meeting has been held to get a campaign going . |
| 20 | As judicial proceedings are thought to have been held at prominent landmarks , legal decisions could have been held at prominent landmarks , legal decisions could have been made in the vicinity of Loyal centuries ago . |
| 21 | As judicial proceedings are thought to have been held at prominent landmarks , legal decisions could have been held at prominent landmarks , legal decisions could have been made in the vicinity of Loyal centuries ago . |
| 22 | Although in law a female fiancée can enter Britain quite freely ( without an entry certificate ) she had been held up , questioned again and again , and late in the evening she had been given a sexual examination by officials who she thought might be doctors . |
| 23 | If our English binge had been held in a medieval university we should have had , mixed with the bawdy songs , tragical and even devotional pieces , equally authorless and handed on from mouth to mouth in the same way , with the same individual variations . ’ |
| 24 | An inquest had been held and a verdict of accidental death returned . |
| 25 | Its release had , however , been held up for some time on instructions from C. M. Woolf , a shrewd film salesman who had played a key role in financing the first projects of both Balcon and Wilcox . |
| 26 | Earlier , the director of the United Nations Transitional Assistance Group ( Untag ) , Irish-born Mr Cedric Thornberry , described the election as freer than any poll that has been held in West Belfast . |
| 27 | Mr Richard Aikens , QC , for the Independent , said that ironically the subject matter had now been held by the House of Lords not to have been confidential , in the sense that in October last year the Law Lords refused to grant permanent injunctions against the Observer and the Guardian , ruling in favour of freedom of speech . |
| 28 | The aircraft have been held for a week because Paramount owes Bristol and Birmingham International airports £1.7million . |
| 29 | Two suspects have been held . |
| 30 | Christopher Huhne 's economics column has been held over until tomorrow . |