Example sentences of "to hold [noun pl] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a scandal not merely because police stations are not equipped to hold prisoners for more than a day or two — everyone from Lord Justice Woolf to the Inspectorate Constabulary has condemned the present arrangement — but because police cells are now being used as a convenience to enable the Prison Department and the Home Secretary to claim that overcrowding in prisons is diminished . |
| 2 | It is fairly common to have two areas of control store , one read-only ( to hold microprograms for the computer instruction set ) and one writeable . |
| 3 | We can assume that the processing resources available for language production are limited , and attempts to hold items for future as well as current constituents would result in an unnecessary drain on processing resources . |
| 4 | The new government plan included a system of protection for witnesses turning state evidence , a toughening of bail conditions , and provisions for the police to hold suspects for up to 48 hours without charge and to suspend for 12 months any financial operation suspected of involving Mafia assets . |
| 5 | ‘ The most correct thing to do is to hold elections for both president and deputies as soon as possible , so that people can trust somebody , ’ Mr Khasbulatov said . |