Example sentences of "[be] hold for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This will be the first exhibition devoted to this aspect of Canaletto 's work to be held for thirty years , and lenders will include H.M.The Queen , the National Gallery , the National Trust and many private and public collections . |
| 2 | They must be held for five to ten years , ’ she says . |
| 3 | ‘ Personal data shall be held for one or more specified and lawful purposes ’ . |
| 4 | Tickets reserved by phone will be held for four days or where applicable , until one hour before the performance . |
| 5 | The detail in a close-up can often be assimilated in a flash , and most need only be held for two or three seconds unless the subject happens to be a ‘ talking head ’ , in which case the sound governs the editing rather than the picture . |
| 6 | If a referendum in a union republic failed to endorse secession , a new referendum on secession could not be held for 10 years . |
| 7 | After Easter the hours are extended as follows : Tickets reserved by phone will be held for three days or where applicable , until one hour before the performance . |
| 8 | They can be held for 48 hours without charge under the Prevention of Terrorism Act and for a further five days at the discretion of the Home Secretary . |
| 9 | At the same time elections were held for 37 of the 46 seats in the Ständerat ( upper house ) in 20 of the 26 cantons and half-cantons . |
| 10 | Also on March 22 the first round of cantonal elections were held for 2,025 general councillors ( including 79 overseas ) , with a second round on March 29 [ for last cantonal elections in 1985 see p. 36705 ] . |
| 11 | A variety of courses was evaluated ; some were held for one evening a week for a term ; others were one-week full time ; some were award-bearing , others were not . |
| 12 | The hostages , who were held for 444 days following the seizure of the US embassy in Tehran in September 1979 , were released within minutes of Reagan being sworn in as President on Jan. 21 , 1981 . |
| 13 | A Metropolitan Police study conducted during a three-month period in 1979 found that 0.4 per cent of detainees were held for seventy-two hours or more . |
| 14 | K. Doraiswamy , executive director of the Indian Oil Corporation , was freed on Aug. 20 after being held for 55 days by the Ikhwan-ul-Muslameen group . |
| 15 | A WOMAN escaped unharmed with her 11-month-old son yesterday after being held for 45 minutes by a knife-wielding kidnapper . |
| 16 | And in the unlikely event that the level of the FT-SE 100 Index should actually fall during that period , we guarantee to return the original amount of your investment provided the Bond is held for 5 years . |
| 17 | The office is held for two years from September and Field Chairs are eligible for re-election . |
| 18 | the 90° to track heading is held for 2 seconds for each degree of drift on the track . |
| 19 | There are also a number of trophies which are held for one year ; the Willis Graham Cup is awarded for the champion berry in the show , judged solely by weight . |
| 20 | Some are held for eighteen months … they 've committed no crime but they have to prove themselves innocent |
| 21 | On March 11 anti-terrorist forces stormed a house in Istanbul where three hostages had been held for 17 hours by members of the underground Turkish Revolutionary Party ; a police officer and a hostage were killed . |
| 22 | ‘ He 'd been held for four months . |
| 23 | He 'd been held for eleven days . |
| 24 | As deputy chief of Sabah 's Institute for Development Studies , whose activities were viewed by the central government as a threat to the integrity of the Malaysian Federation , Ongkili had been held for 59 days under the Internal Security Act on suspicion of carrying out actions prejudicial to national security . |
| 25 | She was of course referring to the Salisbury Annual Pleasure Fair that has been held for three days commencing on the third Monday in October for the last seven hundred years . |
| 26 | We had been held for three and a half years and we still had no idea when we might be released . |
| 27 | The hostages could not have been held for ten minutes without Syrian permission . |
| 28 | One of his proudest moments came when he was appointed provost of the Royal Burgh of Selkirk , a position he was to hold for seven years , He was the town 's last official provost before regionalisation . |
| 29 | He was held for four hours and beaten with a truncheon . |
| 30 | Meanwhile he was held for seventeen months in prison in Oxford , where a debate was staged in which Cranmer and bishops Latimer and Ridley were pitted against selected scholars from Oxford and Cambridge . |