Example sentences of "[be] hold for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The terrified inhabitants are either burned or led away with their hands tied to be held for ransom . |
| 2 | In Chapter 2 we consider the formats in which data might be held for manipulation by the computer , and the types of operations appropriate to each format . |
| 3 | More detailed records on each employee will be held for access via each site 's own APL system ( Figure 4 ) . |
| 4 | In a further six-hour operation by security forces in five villages on June 24 , 300 people were held for questioning , and two people were shot dead on June 26 . |
| 5 | Four other men , who were held for questioning , have now been eliminated from police inquiries . |
| 6 | Updated refresher training sessions were held for plant operators and new reporting procedures brought in to cover routine monitoring . |
| 7 | Another was being held for charity at Tranmere Rovers Ground , Prenton Park . |
| 8 | Maze fugitive Jim Smyth , 38 , was released in San Francisco after being held for passport offences . |
| 9 | It is thought that up to 48 SAAF aircraft could be converted , with just a few of the original piston-engined airframes being held for museum use . |
| 10 | A CHINESE man was dead as scores of Chinese being held for deportation attacked guards in an attempt to escape from a detention camp in Honduras , authorities said last night . |
| 11 | A number of others are still being held for questioning . |
| 12 | Two new orders can be promoted : a suspension order , where the minerals are being held for future working , or a prohibition order , where the operator has no intention of working any minerals that remain . |
| 13 | An amnesty was also granted to a number of unidentified people being held for breach of national security . |
| 14 | Instead of all this fake indignation , when will he own up to the fact that most of the local authorities , including my own of Knowsley , have empty properties because they are being held for improvement under schemes in which the Government are involved after 13 years in which they have neglected to fund local authority and other housing stock ? |
| 15 | There was no longer as large an area in which to transport cattle secretly away from the scene of the crime and in which to hide animals being held for ransom . |
| 16 | That is t to er that is land which is held for expansion purposes , clearly identified by firms as meeting their expansion needs . |
| 17 | Short term assets are held for investment opportunities , and the government 's privatisation programme , coupled with high interest rates on liquid assets may explain the increased popularity of cash and other short term assets in recent years . |
| 18 | On Sunday night at London 's Red Rose Cabaret , run by Ivor Dembina ( erstwhile member of Comic Abuse ) , a benefit going by the name of F**k was held for cabaret performance poet Joolz . |
| 19 | 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 . |