Example sentences of "[being] hold [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moya , a seemingly relaxed woman in her forties , described her attacks , which she has been having for 20 years , as ‘ an enormous blackness and fear , like being held under water ’ . |
| 2 | The report said that at least 50 people were being held without charge in " preventive " detention , and further stated that many hundreds of people were being held without proper trial , among them at least 90 political prisoners who were tried by special courts , over half of whom had been sentenced to death . |
| 3 | Another was being held for charity at Tranmere Rovers Ground , Prenton Park . |
| 4 | Maze fugitive Jim Smyth , 38 , was released in San Francisco after being held for passport offences . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | A number of others are still being held for questioning . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | An amnesty was also granted to a number of unidentified people being held for breach of national security . |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The meeting was being held as part of the Jockey Club 's campaign to change the Sunday betting laws . |
| 13 | Where land is involved , it is usually conveyed to a maximum of four partners on trust for sale , the proceeds of sale and any rents and profits being held as partnership property . |
| 14 | A fine example was found in Lincoln in 1866 and is now in the British Museum ( fig. 14.4 ) , i others came from Richborough ( fig. 14.5 ) and from a grave at Colchester on a Castor Box on which a lion appears in a venatio and being held at bay by a nude bestiarius with a long hunting spear . |
| 15 | A win today would put pressure on the top three , but Newcastle will regard the draw as a safe option after being held at home by Middlesbrough last weekend . |
| 16 | Paperboy Ben Cosstick was back on his delivery rounds today , just forty eight hours after being held at gunpoint during a robbery at a newsagents in Bletchley . |
| 17 | Now Steve has his sights set on winning the European championships for England , being held on home territory in September . |
| 18 | THE son of a Tory party worker is being held on drug charges at a filthy Bangkok jail . |
| 19 | There , as prisoner number 100485 , he was being held on remand , charged with maliciously conspiring to cause explosions likely to endanger life . |
| 20 | Browning is being held on remand at Winsom Green Prison in Birmingham , but he says his defence is being prejudiced because his solicitor to travel for five hours from Wales to see him . |
| 21 | Four of those arrested are being held on suspicion of armed robbery . |
| 22 | The temperature was n't quite as tropical as the bright sunlight may have suggested , being held in check by a stiff westerly breeze . |
| 23 | The party is being held in South London at the offices of the Motor Neurone Disease Association , of which the Duchess of York is patron . |
| 24 | Some of them remained behind to tell me a length how the object was a perfect focus for their festival that was being held in memory of one of their multi-armed folk heroes . |
| 25 | Later in the month objectives of the air raids were shifted to attacks on troop concentrations — particularly Iraq 's elite Republican Guard divisions being held in reserve behind the front line — and on supply lines in both Iraq and Kuwait . |
| 26 | Several hours later , to the west of Kuwait , the bulk of the allied armoured forces — the US VII Corps and the British 1st Armoured Division — outflanked the main enemy defence line and drove directly into Iraq before wheeling north-east to engage the Republican Guard divisions being held in reserve in northern Kuwait . |
| 27 | A parents ' evening on four health topics is being held in school . |
| 28 | Mother was dressed more for sun-bathing than fishing , a homemade top being held in position whilst she tried to master the art of casting — much to the discomfort of an angler nearby ; one of the old school : tie , sports jacket , plus fours , deer stalker and gillie . |
| 29 | Wang Ruowang , a prominent writer and dissident , was unexpectedly released on Oct. 29 after being held in detention in Shanghai for over a year . |
| 30 | Western human rights groups claimed that as many as 2,000 people had been executed by the authorities during the last six months of martial law , and many more were being held in detention . |