Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [be] held [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to remember when I 'd been held like that before , and by whom . |
| 2 | ‘ My lord said that he 'd brought you from Gloucester , ’ volunteered Ellen , setting a trencher of bread and fruit on the table , ‘ where you 'd been held since your father 's death . |
| 3 | This script began with Aunt Lilian 's release from the shabby asylum in which she had been held for decades . |
| 4 | Attention was first drawn to them in 1988 when a 17-year-old resident complained she had been held in continuous confinement for seven weeks and forcibly injected with a sedative . |
| 5 | She had been held in high esteem by numerous people who all wanted to pay their respect . |
| 6 | We had been held for three and a half years and we still had no idea when we might be released . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The justice ministry said yesterday , however , that because they had been held for more than two years without trial , they were released . |
| 9 | They had been held in the Military Prison outside Kuwait City , some for over a month , reportedly in deplorable conditions . |
| 10 | Where it is evident that the directors have ‘ knowledge and experience ’ in the area of business , on the other hand , they have been held to a standard demanding no more than ordinary prudence . |
| 11 | It is clear that the founding treaties , and in particular the EEC Treaty which has by far the broadest scope of the three , have established the Communities and the institutions which enable them to operate ; but more than this , they have been held by the European Court to have set up a new legal system separate from those of the Member States . |
| 12 | MORDECHAI VANUNU : a former nuclear technician at Dimona in Israel , he has been held in solitary confinement since October 1986 . |
| 13 | He quickly regained consciousness but was kept under observation for 12 hours before being returned to the prison where he has been held in solitary confinement since his arrest off the Moroccan coast by the Royal Navy last August . |
| 14 | It has been held under the drink/driving law that the object of requiring the officer to be ‘ in uniform ’ was to ensure that the constable would be easily recognised as such by the public . |
| 15 | It has been held under an equivalent section in England that , an adjournment having once been allowed on the ground that some requirement was not complied with , the justices had no power to adjourn a second time because another irregularity had occurred : R. v. Poole JJ. [ 1951 ] 2 T.L.R. 261 . |
| 16 | The fair was known as Barnaby Fair as it was held on the old Feast of St Barnabas on the 22nd June ; more recently it has been held on the Tuesday nearest this date . |
| 17 | Perhaps because of its success , it has been held as a model of scholarly inquiry ; social scientists have tried to emulate what they believed were the methods of physics : formulating a testable hypothesis , setting up an experiment which could be replicated , carefully observing and measuring the results , and proving or disproving the hypothesis . |
| 18 | In such a case a complete reconsideration of the case , including the taking of evidence and the finding of facts , would be a waste of time and money ; so the court can remit the case and direct the authority to reconsider the facts in the light of the law as it has been held to be . |
| 19 | Accordingly , it has been held to be unfair to dismiss a man convicted of one isolated act of incest for which he received a probationary sentence . |
| 20 | It has been held in a number of cases that if a person claims to have a legitimate expectation , this will give that person standing to make an application for judicial review unless the claim is totally frivolous . |
| 21 | It has been held in C & H Engineering v F Klucznik & Sons Ltd. [ 1992 ] that this requires a two-stage test . |
| 22 | In two cases , Smith v Bradford MC ( 1982 ) 4 HLR 86 and McCauley v Bristol City Council [ 1991 ] 3 WLR 968 , it has been held in similar circumstances that a landlord was liable in tort under s. 4 Defective Premises Act 1972 . |
| 23 | It has been held by the European Court of Human Rights that freedom of expression ( Article 10 ) constitutes one of the essential foundations of democratic society , one of the basic conditions for its progress and for the development of every man ( judgment of the Court of 7 December 1976 , Handyside Case , Series A , No.24 ) . |
| 24 | It has been held by the High Court that an agreement to settle an appeal made under s 54 , TMA 1970 was subject to the ordinary laws of contract and that it was therefore subject to rectification where , because of a mistake , the agreement was not in accordance with the parties ' intentions ( p 100 ) . |
| 25 | It has been held by the Court of Appeal in one instance , that the ‘ employer 's conduct ’ which entitles an employee to resign is conduct which ‘ fundamentally breaches ’ the employment contract . |
| 26 | It has been held by the Court of Appeal that the privilege against self-incrimination can be invoked in this context where , accepting the facts as alleged by the plaintiff , there is a reasonable apprehension on the part of the defendant that he might be prosecuted in the United Kingdom . |
| 27 | Even within types of offence , it has been held by the NIRC ( Hudson ( Birmingham ) Ltd v Winsper , 1973 ) that there are ‘ grades ’ of criminality . |
| 28 | At least so it has been held by students of the origins of the statistical mechanics pioneered by Clerk Maxwell . |
| 29 | ‘ He 'd been held for four months . |
| 30 | He 'd been held for eleven days . |