Example sentences of "[adv] be held [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some examples from the pre-reformation period , such as the magnificent George Inn at Norton St. Philip , Somerset , originally constructed in the 14th century , were established by monasteries for pilgrims and travellers ; but after the dissolutions of the 1530s all were held in secular hands and subsequently catered for the increasing number of road travellers in the 16th century and the stage coach trade that first appeared in the early 17th century . |
| 2 | On Sunday 8 September 1560 , a mop fair was held at nearby Abingdon . |
| 3 | the conference will not be held at High Leigh but Swanwick . |
| 4 | But the court has not always been held in breathless reverence . |
| 5 | This difference is all the more complete in that different rights in the same thing or place may be and usually are held by different people or different groups of people in those societies . |
| 6 | Their family fears that they may have been tortured to death or extrajudicially executed , or that they are still being held in incommunicado detention . |
| 7 | Deposits can also be held at non-bank financial institutions such as building societies , mortgage corporations , savings and loans associations and finance houses ; however , such institutions generally have to hold cheque account balances at banks themselves and thus public deposits with them are not regarded as part of the nation 's money supply in many countries . |
| 8 | Talks are also being held with various US corporations , including Ault Foods , as part of the export drive which began with a two-week fact finding mission to the US organised by Strathclyde Business Development . |
| 9 | Talks are also being held with British Rail to explore the possibility of installing Cashline terminals at selected main line stations . |
| 10 | The FMLN also claimed that aid from international organizations was being prevented from reaching them and that captured FMLN members were now being held as political prisoners . |
| 11 | JACOB JABUNI YIDANA : a former Chief Superintendent of Police , he served an eight-year prison sentence and is now being held in administrative detention without charge or trial , apparently because he implicated his government in the 1982 murders of three High Court judges and a retired army officer . |
| 12 | Both were reportedly being held in solitary confinement in Beijing prison number two , and Wang was reported to be suffering from hepatitis . |
| 13 | It is a symptom of the high esteem in which ivory has consistently been held in civilized societies that it is often linked with gold and precious stones . |
| 14 | All the portfolios had previously been held by other members of the Cabinet . |
| 15 | But the requirement of leave need not be too burdensome for applicants if an expeditious procedure for cases of emergency is provided ; and the question of time-limits could be dealt with by making it clear that a short time-limit should be imposed only if public works would otherwise be held in undue suspense . |
| 16 | Even more prisoners , about 60 , are currently being held under equivalent provisions in the nominally independent ‘ homelands ’ of the Transkei and Bophuthatswana . |