Example sentences of "been held for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some detainees have been held for as long as seven years without charge or trial . |
| 2 | Two prisoners of conscience in Laos have been held for over 15 years for ‘ re-education ’ . |
| 3 | Among the hundreds of those held without charge or trial in Syria are the following who have appeared in the Letter Writing Campaign : Hakem Sultan al-Faiz , a 61-year-old Jordanian national and former member of the National Command of the Arab Socialist Ba'th Party , who has been held for almost 20 years ; Ahmad ‘ Abd al-Rau'uf Roummou , a 55-year-old teacher , arrested in 1975 ; Muhammad Nabil Salem , an engineer , arrested in the wake of a one-day national strike in 1980 and Mahmud Jalbut , a Palestinian arrested in 1980 . |
| 4 | This script began with Aunt Lilian 's release from the shabby asylum in which she had been held for decades . |
| 5 | The aircraft have been held for a week because Paramount owes Bristol and Birmingham International airports £1.7million . |
| 6 | A full licence must have been held for at least 1 year , and the minimum age is 21 . |
| 7 | A cheese and wine party had been held for the voluntary emergency wardens , whose services will be required in the event of prolonged power cuts or other major crises . |
| 8 | She was of course referring to the Salisbury Annual Pleasure Fair that has been held for three days commencing on the third Monday in October for the last seven hundred years . |
| 9 | Early in June 1689 Edinburgh Castle , which had been held for James , surrendered , but Blair Castle , at Blair Atholl in Perthshire , eight miles [ 13 km ] north-west of Pitlochry , had now declared for the Jacobite cause . |
| 10 | To ‘ off-comed 'uns ’ it is not even a large village , with only 2,080 inhabitants , but to the native it is a town because it has held a market charter since 1223 and although no market has been held for many years , the charter was read once a year in the market place until 1939 . |
| 11 | He was approached by the family of a 14-year-old who had been held for alleged stone-throwing . |
| 12 | Detainees have often been held for weeks or months without access to defence lawyers before being brought to trial on charges such as rebellion , illegal association and ‘ enemy propaganda ’ ( a charge brought against those accused of producing , distributing or possessing any information regarded as subversive by the authorities ) . |
| 13 | The man had been held for nearly four months in a blacked-out room . |
| 14 | ‘ He 'd been held for four months . |
| 15 | At the end of December 1980 , the returns to the Committee on Jail Reform indicated that almost 7,000 ( 8 per cent ) of the 92,000 undertrials had been in gaol for over one year , and 2,500 of these had been held for more than two years . |
| 16 | In some cases that were drawn to the attention of the Juridical and Human Rights Commission of the main Protestant organization ( CEPAD ) , people had been held for as long as three months without being interrogated . |
| 17 | But whereas they had been held for just a few years by his grandfather and father , they were in royal hands for thirty-one of the last forty years of Edward III 's reign , from 1337 to 1360 and then from 1369 onwards to the end of the century . |
| 18 | We had been held for three and a half years and we still had no idea when we might be released . |
| 19 | Plainly , events such as the Durham Miners ' Gala , which has been held for decades fall within the rubric . |
| 20 | The hostages could not have been held for ten minutes without Syrian permission . |
| 21 | All stock that has been held for more than twenty months at the balance sheet date will be written down to scrap value with reference to independently verifiable third party documentation ; |
| 22 | US military officials said that only about 130 people remained in detention out of a total of 5,300 Panamanians who had been held for questioning since the invasion . |
| 23 | On March 11 anti-terrorist forces stormed a house in Istanbul where three hostages had been held for 17 hours by members of the underground Turkish Revolutionary Party ; a police officer and a hostage were killed . |
| 24 | As deputy chief of Sabah 's Institute for Development Studies , whose activities were viewed by the central government as a threat to the integrity of the Malaysian Federation , Ongkili had been held for 59 days under the Internal Security Act on suspicion of carrying out actions prejudicial to national security . |
| 25 | Others still detained at the end of March had been held for almost 10 years . |
| 26 | Over the last six months , a number of seminars have been held for those delivering general SVQs in particular vocational areas . |
| 27 | Meanwhile a memorial service has been held for the former cabinet minister and Cotswolds MP Nicholas Ridley . |
| 28 | A memorial service has been held for the survivors and relatives of those who lost their lives in an air crash fifty years ago . |
| 29 | A memorial service has been held for the survivors and relatives of those who lost their lives in an air crash fifty years ago . |
| 30 | He 'd been held for eleven days . |