Example sentences of "[verb] [be] held [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since Dr John Gore , a nuclear scientist and his wife Ruth were found at their home at Tetbury in Gloucestershire in September last year , axed to death , their son Christopher has been held at Broadmoor Hospital . |
| 2 | Each member 's contribution has been held at £15,000 for the second year . |
| 3 | Earnings per share for the first half were reduced to 5.47p , against 7.83p last time , but the interim dividend has been held at 1.5p . |
| 4 | The grant for the RSNO has been held at £1.82 million , the same as in the current financial year . |
| 5 | A service for Wilfred James Moorby , 65 , has been held at York crematorium and David Whitehead , 36 , was cremated yesterday in Huddersfield . |
| 6 | An eleven year old boy has been held at gunpoint by armed raiders and forced to lead them to money and jewellery at his family home . |
| 7 | A meeting on book provision in schools has been held with Baroness Blatch , Minister of State . |
| 8 | Plainly , events such as the Durham Miners ' Gala , which has been held for decades fall within the rubric . |
| 9 | At least so it has been held by students of the origins of the statistical mechanics pioneered by Clerk Maxwell . |
| 10 | Jonathan Probyn , from Hardwicke in Gloucestershire , has been held by police since his arrest at his home early yesterday . |
| 11 | The £500,000 UK account has been held by FCA ! for some years . |
| 12 | A State funeral mass has been held in Rome for the film director who died at the weekend . |
| 13 | If I thought that the present case raised the question which has been held in suspense by more than one writer on constitutional law — namely , whether an assembly can properly be held to be unlawful merely because the holding of it is expected to give rise to a breach of the peace on the part of persons opposed to those who are holding the meeting — I should wish to hear much more argument before I expressed an opinion . |
| 14 | If I thought that the present case raised the question which has been held in suspense by more than one writer on constitutional law — namely , whether an assembly can properly be held to be unlawful merely because the holding of it is expected to give rise to a breach of the peace on the part of persons opposed to those who are holding the meeting — I should wish to hear much more argument before expressing an opinion . |
| 15 | Earlier , the director of the United Nations Transitional Assistance Group ( Untag ) , Irish-born Mr Cedric Thornberry , described the election as freer than any poll that has been held in West Belfast . |
| 16 | A church service has been held in memory of a man who was stabbed to death in his back garden . |
| 17 | Roderick Newall , who has been held in Gibraltar since being arrested at sea last August , was kept in hospital for three hours ' observation before being returned to prison . |
| 18 | It has been held in C & H Engineering v F Klucznik & Sons Ltd. [ 1992 ] that this requires a two-stage test . |
| 19 | David Ormerod , a geology lecturer at the Open University , has been held in Oradea , Romania , for the past three days , after being picked up at the main crossing point into Hungary . |
| 20 | This is the first time the conference has been held in Stoke-on-Trent and is especially significant to Wedgwood since the Moat House incorporates Etruria Hall , the home of Josiah I. A Wedgwood stand and demonstrator will be on display at the conference . |
| 21 | AN AZERI who hijacked a Russian plane so he could go to the United States to work was held on charges of air piracy by a Swedish court yesterday after giving himself up . |
| 22 | Details of any reductions that have been made are held in enquiry screen four . |
| 23 | Racing is held at York during six meetings from May to October with the biggest gathering during the three days august event . |
| 24 | Racing is held at York during six meetings from May to October with the biggest gathering during August |
| 25 | A Discovery Day for the mentally handicapped was held at Mid-Kent College with two open Medau classes . |
| 26 | With the arrow in place , bleeding was held at bay . |
| 27 | The man behind Shoom — a club that is now so legendary that if all the people who claim to have been there in its formative months really had attended , it would have been held in Wembley Stadium not in a sweaty south-east London basement — he resolutely refused to cash in on the boom that became known as acid . |
| 28 | But the line could never have been held in south-west France without the active collaboration and support of its inhabitants . |
| 29 | The very first of these may have been held in Burrell 's Hall off the High Street , but two years later , Glasgow 's first Concert Hall was cobbled together . |
| 30 | The second session of the Sino-Nepalese joint boundary inspection committee was held in Kathmandu on Aug. 1-7 , 1988 ( the first session having been held in February 1987 ) . |