Example sentences of "[verb] been hold up " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then she said : ‘ Mebbe he 's one of that gang that has been holding up grocery stores . ’ |
| 2 | The government decided in 1973 to promote nuclear power , but the idea has been held up by unresolved questions concerning the environment . |
| 3 | Richard said , still sounding no more than irritated , and a trifle superior , like someone who has been held up on his way home by a street brawl . |
| 4 | All the members of the EC except Britain and Denmark have voted to ratify the treaty ( although in Germany the president 's signature has been held up by challenges in the constitutional court ) . |
| 5 | While it is true that no major course development has been held up by administrative constraints , the range of decisions with administrative effects ( deadlines , counting rules , etc. , as well as the information base about approved fields ) imposes a permanent culture of change on the administration of the Course . |
| 6 | The renewal of the annual licence has been held up by the Department of Technical Services ‘ Electrical Engineer and the Fire Brigade . |
| 7 | Football , and after six wins in seven games Swindon Town 's promotion charge has been held up by struggling Southend United . |
| 8 | Football , and after six wins in seven games Swindon Town 's promotion charge has been held up by struggling Southend United . |
| 9 | THE appointment of a key child care solicitor in Liverpool has been held up . |
| 10 | But today they contacted their colleagues in Oxford to say they 'd been held up by blizzards . |
| 11 | They often came into conflict with the local Transport Committees , formed from the local branches of the main transport unions , who correctly maintained that they alone had the right to issue permits for the movement of essential items which would otherwise have been held up in the dispute . |
| 12 | With the narrow lanes around Bentworth , any approaching traffic would have had to give way and cars travelling in the same direction could have been held up . |
| 13 | ‘ He must have been held up , Mum , ’ she said . |
| 14 | They may have been held up . |
| 15 | Well , certainly this particular piece of work would have been held up , er the salary that we 're able to provide for this young researcher was absol , absolutely essential , and in Great Britain there is an enormous reliance on charitable funding for research , it 's absolutely essential . |
| 16 | Safeguards for the Spanish steel industry were incorporated in an additional protocol , the talks having been held up over Spain 's concern that cheap steel exports from the three countries would disrupt its domestic industry . |
| 17 | Seeing Anthea each day would be a constant reminder , and neither woman could deny that the masks of civility each had been holding up to the other for months were now trampled underfoot . |
| 18 | In the letters Bush suggested compromise terms for the two issues which had been holding up an agreement on a conference , namely the question of UN representation and the nature of the conference itself . |
| 19 | Over two thousand telegrams , mainly concerning the supply of the Famine areas , had been held up inside Siberia . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | In return the Americans this month unblocked $5m in military aid that had been held up after last year 's arrests . |
| 22 | Last December , Congress charged that money set aside for cleaning up several of the 400 ‘ top-priority ’ dumps had been held up last autumn so as not to benefit local Democratic officeholders , who were fighting off Republican challengers in the November elections . |
| 23 | The price of oil was tumbling again , one of his most reliable brokers on Wall Street had just been arrested for insider dealing , the acquisition of a highly prestigious London hotel had been held up by a query as to who actually owned it and , back home , one of his sisters had just committed suicide , causing a tremor of scandal throughout the country . |
| 24 | All the ships , large and small , which had been held up for days past , had now unfurled their sails and were putting to sea . |
| 25 | The adoption of land reform had been held up by the opposition of recalcitrant landlords . |
| 26 | They had n't arrived yet , because they had been held up in the traffic , but they would be along in time for an early lunch . |
| 27 | She supposed he had been held up because it was Regatta day . |
| 28 | A service accord had been held up by developing countries , who feared that liberalization would allow Western financial companies to cripple newly established indigenous financial service industries . |
| 29 | It was reported that the final signing had been held up over successive objections raised by Taylor , and that he eventually signed only under pressure from Capt. Blaise Compaore , the head of state of Burkina , a country which , according to some reports , had previously been an important source of arms supplies to Taylor 's faction . |
| 30 | It had been held up because of the freezing of assistance to the Soviet Union ( also released on the same day — see p. 38105 ) . |