Object

• suspect: Police officers who detain suspects believed to be illegally in the UK take them to police stations.

• seeker: In fact, there have been two suicides of detained asylum seekers at Harmondsworth detention center, run by Group 4 at the time.

• offender: In their attempts to detain the offenders a fierce fight ensued.

• protester: Police at the back of the demonstration, unbeknownst to the rest of us, harassed and intimidated and in some cases detained protesters.

• prisoner: Open Prison A type of prison with a more relaxed regime than Larkhall, and which is used to detain low-risk prisoners.

• foreigner: In the Philippines, the immigration act has been used to detain indefinitely foreigners suspected of terrorist acts.

Subject

• police: Managers of the two mines have been detained by police.

Modifying Another Word

• indefinitely: The Act allows foreign suspects to be detained indefinitely without charge.

• compulsorily: This ran an unacceptably high risk of people who were not dangerous being compulsorily detained or treated.

• unlawfully: Not assault on constable in execution of duty where person unlawfully detained by constable assaults same.

• illegally: Another 60 protesters were illegally detained in a pen outside the main gates to the base.

• unavoidably: Or maybe unavoidably detained at Her Majesty's pleasure?

• arbitrarily: Hundreds of people were arbitrarily detained and held in poor prison conditions.

Present participle complement

• pend: The suspect has been detained pending further police enquiries.

Preposition: without

• trial: He said that foreign terror suspects detained without trial in the UK were still free to leave the country.

• charge: The Act allows foreign suspects to be detained indefinitely without charge.

Preposition: in

• custody: He was sentenced to be detained in strict custody during Her Majesty's Pleasure.

• hospital: Section 58 allows some people who are detained in hospital to be treated, for their mental disorder, against their will.

• prison: First, he was detained in prison without ever being shown the evidence for his detention.

Preposition: by

• police: Managers of the two mines have been detained by police.