Example sentences of "hold under the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A COUPLE held under the Official Secrets Act were still being quizzed by Special Branch detectives last night . |
| 2 | The Edinburgh Conference was the last to be held under the complete trade-union domination which had been noticeable since 1932 . |
| 3 | Elections would then be held under the new law ; the new parliament would gather to adopt the rest of the constitution . |
| 4 | Only a third of the 15,000,000 people eligible to vote actually did so in the congressional and gubernatorial elections on Oct. 27 , the first to be held under the new Constitution approved in July [ see p. 38332 ] . |
| 5 | The elections to the Convention were the least contentious of any of the general elections held under the later Stuarts : few of the contests which did occur were fought along party lines , and a number of constituencies returned one Whig and one Tory unopposed . |
| 6 | The last three detainees held under the Public Security Act were released on June 6 , 1989 , an order for the release of all such detainees having been made by Moi on June 1 [ see also p. 36918 ] . |
| 7 | Yet if we take all elections held under the Triennial Act in the twenty year period from 1695 , including by-elections , we find that only nineteen constituencies avoided a contest altogether . |
| 8 | The 1954 election was held under the same franchise as before ( giving the vote to about half the adult population ) but this time the whole country was divided into 104 single-member constituencies . |
| 9 | It was held under the previous law that a police officer could be the ‘ other ’ person . |
| 10 | Although the term might seem naturally to denote prior arrangement , it was held under the previous law that the word is ‘ not a term of art ’ and that a person can organise spontaneously by giving directions on the spot as to such matters as the route to ken , when to stop and when to advance and so forth . |