Example sentences of "[adv] being held by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of putting him on a charge , the governor took the knife out of his hand and , while the prisoner was still being held by the officers , slashed his face . |
| 2 | Each also undertook to halt any act of aggression against the other 's territory , and to settle the issue of the prisoners of war still being held by each side . |
| 3 | On Nov. 13 the Interior Minister , Gen. Sin Song , revealed that about 1,000 political prisoners were still being held by the Phnom Penh regime . |
| 4 | The fate of those who are still living and of the hostages who are now being held by the regime in Iraq is not being decided by a beneficent Government . |
| 5 | While recognising the undeniable ( if somewhat over-stressed ) value of milk in a child 's nutritional development , the Board of Education and Ministry of Health also appreciated that greater milk consumption would be a way of reducing the surplus stocks then being held by producers . |