Example sentences of "[been] hold to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When he did so , he would have been holding to an instinctive belief that the signal behind him would inevitably have gone to red . |
| 2 | The officer 's life was ‘ almost certainly ’ saved by the fact that one bullet became embedded in a radio handset he had been holding to his ear . |
| 3 | Climbing to his feet , the tall sheriff pocketed the small hand-mirror he had been holding to Grant 's lips . |
| 4 | His life had almost certainly been saved by the fact that one bullet had hit a radio handset he had been holding to his ear . |
| 5 | I was unable to share his joy , not particularly because my home team had been held to a draw , but because I fell headlong into the tent , throwing a pan of boiling rice everywhere . |
| 6 | The International Air Transport Association has also been held to be subject to the EC competition rules for the same reason . |
| 7 | Even within the United Kingdom , an Act of Parliament ( the Northern Ireland Parliament , set up under the Government of Ireland Act 1920 which withheld certain powers from it ) has been held to be limited in respect of the range of authority which it conferred ( Belfast Corporation v O.D. Cars Ltd [ 1960 ] AC 490 ) . |
| 8 | In a number of decided cases a landlord has been held to be acting reasonably in refusing consent in these circumstances : |
| 9 | These lines , said Tolkien , ‘ have been held to be the finest expression of the northern heroic spirit , Norse or English ; the clearest statement of the doctrine of uttermost endurance in the service of indomitable will ’ . |
| 10 | Examples which have been held to be ‘ driving ’ which do not readily fall within the above definition include : |
| 11 | Pedalling an auto-assisted bicycle without starting the engine has been held to be driving away . |
| 12 | Brideshead , too , is an exercise in passionate nostalgia , and of a kind that has sometimes been held to be embarrassing , since it celebrates the dying life of a great country house , though such critical embarrassments may be more ritual than real . |
| 13 | After all , during the First World War prices had been held to a twofold increase : the inflationary explosion had occurred immediately after the war . |
| 14 | In such a case a complete reconsideration of the case , including the taking of evidence and the finding of facts , would be a waste of time and money ; so the court can remit the case and direct the authority to reconsider the facts in the light of the law as it has been held to be . |
| 15 | Many countries , mainly those in the civil law tradition , have made this declaration , including Belgium , Czechoslovakia , Egypt , France , Germany , Luxembourg , Norway , Portugal , Seychelles and Turkey ( but not Italy ) ; accordingly an attempt to serve process via a United States Vice-Consul in the German Federal Republic has been held to be ineffective and the Netherlands Ministry of External Affairs was held to have acted properly when it refused to accept a document intended for service via the diplomatic channel on a defendant in France . |
| 16 | For that God has been conceived as male , and that biblical teaching which arose out of a patriarchal society has been held to be the revelation of God , must surely be seen to be the underlying facts of western culture which have led to discrimination against women . |
| 17 | Today people conceive as ‘ real ’ that which , within a dominantly Platonist framework of thought , would have been held to be a particular instance of what could be said most truly to exist . |
| 18 | The following have been held to be contempts of Parliament : 1 . |
| 19 | Newspaper articles criticising M.P.s have been held to be a contempt . |
| 20 | Some have been held to be sources of knowledge . |
| 21 | For instance , Heisenberg 's indeterminacy principle has been held to be a reason to reject the Law of Excluded Middle . |
| 22 | Mr. Roth contended that it is inconceivable that a party who has been held to be merely negligent should be required to contribute to the damages payable by a party who has been found guilty of fraud . |
| 23 | Where it is evident that the directors have ‘ knowledge and experience ’ in the area of business , on the other hand , they have been held to a standard demanding no more than ordinary prudence . |
| 24 | As for animals belonging to a dangerous species , a camel has been held to be such because it may cause severe injury by kicking and biting , but strict liability was imposed for injuries suffered by falling off the camel because of its irregular gait . |
| 25 | It is not , however , necessary that the defendant should assert rights of ownership over the goods : taking for the purposes of acquiring a lien or of temporary use have been held to be conversion . |
| 26 | Thus , natural justice has been held to be applicable to cases of disciplinary action within a university and to expulsion for failure in examinations , although in the latter case the examiners had based their decision on the personal attributes of the candidate as well as exam marks . |
| 27 | These might have been held to be missing links in a chain of which the links were very small in some places , and large ( so far ) in others ; but this idea conflicted with the notion that God would have created the best of all possible worlds , which should therefore not change over time since all change must be for the worse . |
| 28 | The effect of this has been held to be that , even if the company omits to put them on the register they become members and holders of the number of shares stated . |
| 29 | Accordingly , it has been held to be unfair to dismiss a man convicted of one isolated act of incest for which he received a probationary sentence . |
| 30 | Earlier on March 11 the election had been held to the post of Chairman of the Supreme Council ( i.e. President of Lithuania ) . |