Example sentences of "held to [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Nevertheless , among the middle class , there were few institutions so revered as the schools , and their influence in clubs was held to be of great consequence as reformers regularly called for public-school men to come forward to work in the clubs . |
2 | Thus for example it is sometimes held to be of significance that the first appearance of the resurrected Christ is said to have been to a woman . |
3 | The decision in Bell was held to be of doubtful validity in Maitland Ptr. , 1961 S.L.T. 384 , where a licensing court was directed to hold a special sitting after it had , per incuriam , failed to declare a provisional grant final . |
4 | These buckets were held to be of merchantable quality ( but see paragraph 7–22 below ) . |
5 | The question which concerns the text is therefore not tracing , but valuing the property which may be held to be under trust . |
6 | But it is certainly intelligible , both as an account of the original motives inspiring such legislation and as the specification of an aim widely held to be worth pursuing , to say that the law is here concerned with the suffering , albeit only of animals , rather than with the immorality of torturing them . |
7 | Anti-English slanders they were held to be by the genteel Victorian travellers who continued to come to the Pyrenees . |
8 | The circumstances which imposed on Midland Bank the duty of which it was held to be in breach are not apparent from the report . |
9 | Nevertheless they were held to be in contempt but , the strike having collapsed , no penalty was imposed . |
10 | But breaches of the injunction continued and the union officials were held to be in contempt , the union being fined £50,000 with sequestration of assets to follow , if needed . |
11 | Several unions were held to be in contempt , were fined and had their assets sequestrated . |
12 | In the event neither the manager nor the owners were held to be in breach of duty . |
13 | An architect certifying amounts payable to a contractor under a building contract was held to be in the position of an arbitrator in Stevenson v Watson ( 1879 ) 4 CP 148 and therefore not liable to the contractor , and , by a considerable extension of the same argument , not liable to the employer either in Chambers v Goldthorpe [ 1901 ] 1 KB 624 . |
14 | In this case , a sale of tins of condensed milk bearing labels which infringed a registered trade mark , was held to be in breach of the implied condition of merchantibility ( per Bankes LJ at p395 ) : Quality includes the state or condition of the goods . |
15 | Another figure of the Duvalier regime , Claude Raymond , a former general , generally held to be behind the disruption of the November 1987 elections [ see pp. 35697-98 ] , was also reported to be campaigning for the presidency , despite a constitutional ban on " notorious Duvalierists " . |