Example sentences of "being held [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even more prisoners , about 60 , are currently being held under equivalent provisions in the nominally independent ‘ homelands ’ of the Transkei and Bophuthatswana . |
| 2 | By June 6 about 300 such detainees were being held under light security in Addis Ababa , and the interim government had stated that they were to be tried in the presence of international observers . |
| 3 | An army spokesman pointed out to journalists that the men were being held under anti-terrorist legislation and added that they had already been interrogated and had been ‘ singing like birds ’ , a phrase from the criminal underworld implying that they had confessed to crimes . |
| 4 | The report said that at least 50 people were being held without charge in " preventive " detention , and further stated that many hundreds of people were being held without proper trial , among them at least 90 political prisoners who were tried by special courts , over half of whom had been sentenced to death . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The two-day exhibition , being held at Great Tey Primary School , opened yesterday and continues today from 10am to 3pm . |
| 7 | The pipeline operators , US Northville Industries , claimed yesterday that production is being held at normal levels of around 300,000 barrels day . |
| 8 | It is understood that the three youths being questioned were being held at separate police stations in Liverpool . |
| 9 | A workshop on training opportunities and the potential for women on Teesside is being held at Deltic House , Middlesbrough on February 26 . |
| 10 | The HERMS structure , therefore , is a combination of relational information being held at hierarchical levels representing assemblies and sub-assemblies occurring in a machine . |
| 11 | Suspects are being held at various police stations in the Home Counties including Milton Keynes . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Talks are also being held with British Rail to explore the possibility of installing Cashline terminals at selected main line stations . |
| 14 | The rearrangement of school classes might cause time-tabling difficulties at first ( and might entail some classes being held after normal school hours , on Saturday mornings , or by arrangement in colleges of further education or neighbouring schools ) . |
| 15 | Partly , this was due to the deep-rooted belief in the importance of all forms of property being held in private hands , and partly to the potentially enormous cost of solving the housing shortage , as well as to rather vain hopes that increasing prosperity and improved public transport would enable poorer urban dwellers to move to cheaper suburban accommodation . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The system , known at the time as réduction François , was not accepted immediately in the Champagne community , despite being held in great esteem elsewhere and , ironically — which was most damaging of all to the Champagne industry — used to further the production of German sparkling sekt . |
| 18 | Those still in working order can be used for straightforward word-processing as stand-alones , with some being held in reserve to replace machines out on repair , plus some being made available for the use of Associates and long-term visiting researchers . |
| 19 | But that we are being held in protective custody in a special private clinic . |
| 20 | Their family fears that they may have been tortured to death or extrajudicially executed , or that they are still being held in incommunicado detention . |
| 21 | Apart from which of course , that everything we say is being held in public session in any event . |
| 22 | It estimated that more 6,000 political prisoners were being held in Turkish prisons . |
| 23 | His advice and opinion as an arbitrator were frequently sought , his fair and impartial judgement being held in high esteem . |
| 24 | He is being held in solitary confinement in Gibraltar , charged with murdering his parents in Jersey nearly five years ago . |
| 25 | Both were reportedly being held in solitary confinement in Beijing prison number two , and Wang was reported to be suffering from hepatitis . |
| 26 | Tonight he 's being held in solitary confinement . |
| 27 | THE scandal of more than one-third of a billion pounds worth of intervention food being held in cold storage in the Republic while millions of people are dying in Africa has angered TDs . |
| 28 | What is happening here is simply that the additional real money supply is being held in speculative or ‘ idle ’ balances . |
| 29 | In the UK all Iraqis were from Jan. 19 required to have visas to enter the country , and strict registration procedures were laid down for Iraqis who were in the UK on limited leave ; as of Jan. 29 , out of 101 Iraqis detained since the beginning of the year 42 ( together with seven Palestinians ) were currently in detention awaiting deportation , 21 had left or had been deported and three had been released ; 35 serving members of the Iraqi armed forces were being held in military custody . |