Example sentences of "was deemed [prep] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to section 14(2) , a fishing vessel was deemed to be British-owned if the legal title to the vessel was vested wholly in one or more qualified persons or companies and the vessel was beneficially owned by one or more qualified companies or , as to not less than 75 per cent. , by one or more qualified persons . |
| 2 | A wife 's promise not to go to court to seek maintenance from her estranged husband was deemed to be void as being contrary to public policy and , consequently , the husband 's promise to pay her money in consideration of her agreeing not to go to court was made without consideration and also void : Gaisberg v. Storr [ 1950 ] 1 K.B.107 , but see now , Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 , S.34 , below , p. 220 . |
| 3 | What a child found out for himself was deemed to be real and usable knowledge , while what he learned ‘ parrot-fashion ’ was not . |
| 4 | In a sense , repressing all that was deemed to be inimical to the regime was the " easy " part of the task of consolidating the result of the Civil War . |
| 5 | That is , a question involving calculation was deemed to be practical only if it involved a real-life situation . |
| 6 | Classical literature tells us that through the centuries love was deemed to be compatible with a good marriage and in the Middle Ages canon law , by basing the validity of marriage on free consent , upheld love as a precursor of the union . |
| 7 | And conversely , in the exalté atmosphere of Northern Nigeria , a Resident who admitted defeat at the hands of his emir was deemed to be guilty of two unpardonable sins : he disgraced by his ineptitude the good name of the British Colonial Service ; and he brought the whole principle of local administrative autonomy into disrepute . |
| 8 | If the time was deemed to be right , if the prospective bride had accepted and the parents had chosen a time , he would be married , that was sure . |
| 9 | Mr Bond was deemed to be insolvent at the time the bankruptcy judgment was entered against him and the bankruptcy notice was served — ‘ about three weeks ago ’ — but Mr Bond may have been insolvent before that time . |
| 10 | Most ambitious play was deemed to be Bardic 's ‘ The theatre went to Gregory Lavery in the same play . |
| 11 | The budget process in Congress , in other words , was deemed to be irrational , uncoordinated and inefficient . |
| 12 | This was deemed to be discriminatory according to the European Directive on payment of benefits , and it was replaced with the severe disablement allowance for all claimants in 1984 . |
| 13 | This was an attempt by a local authority to object to the level of grant it was deemed to be entitled to from the central government . |
| 14 | The change to ‘ elected ’ was deemed to be inconclusive . |
| 15 | On such grounds , the treaty of 1259 was deemed to be invalid . |
| 16 | After what was deemed to be considerable negotiating success with the wretched pay beds , I was left in relative tranquillity from government activity for a short time only . |