Example sentences of "[be] hold for [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the Act , the men can be held for up to seven days . |
| 2 | To help you get organised a group option may be held for up to one month before deposits are required , and names need not be supplied until 12 weeks before departure . |
| 3 | In this case the initial suspicion must be reasonable , whereupon the person may be held for up to 7 days . |
| 4 | Another difference Walker found was that untried prisoners , who can be held for up to a year , are rarely allowed visits . |
| 5 | Some stances may be held for only a fraction of a second , just long enough to provide the correct arrangement of balance , position and technique availability . |
| 6 | After the game we were held for exactly one hour , then herded onto to a train which did n't move for 40 minutes . |
| 7 | Oumarou Aman , Cameroon : released from labour camp in January 1991 after being held for more than six years without charge or trial . |
| 8 | Medium shots come between these two extremes , and the length of their stay is generally decided by the action ; the shot is held for as long as something interesting is going on or being said . |
| 9 | Sachs therefore concluded that the syntax of sentences is held for only a short time , after which only their meaning is retained . |
| 10 | But whereas they had been held for just a few years by his grandfather and father , they were in royal hands for thirty-one of the last forty years of Edward III 's reign , from 1337 to 1360 and then from 1369 onwards to the end of the century . |
| 11 | Two prisoners of conscience in Laos have been held for over 15 years for ‘ re-education ’ . |
| 12 | The man had been held for nearly four months in a blacked-out room . |
| 13 | At the end of December 1980 , the returns to the Committee on Jail Reform indicated that almost 7,000 ( 8 per cent ) of the 92,000 undertrials had been in gaol for over one year , and 2,500 of these had been held for more than two years . |
| 14 | All stock that has been held for more than twenty months at the balance sheet date will be written down to scrap value with reference to independently verifiable third party documentation ; |
| 15 | Many had been held for more than 15 years . |
| 16 | The justice ministry said yesterday , however , that because they had been held for more than two years without trial , they were released . |
| 17 | Some detainees have been held for as long as seven years without charge or trial . |
| 18 | In some cases that were drawn to the attention of the Juridical and Human Rights Commission of the main Protestant organization ( CEPAD ) , people had been held for as long as three months without being interrogated . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Others still detained at the end of March had been held for almost 10 years . |
| 21 | Although the aircraft did turn northwards , the flight-data recorder trace showed that the outbound track was held for only a short while . |