Example sentences of "has [be] [vb pp] [adv] to be " in BNC.

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1 In such a case an adult might be held liable either for breach of his contract to use proper care or for a wrong independent of the contract ; an infant has been held not to be liable at all .
2 The occupier of a private house ( but not the owner of a house who had never entered into possession of it ) would probably be considered to be in possession of anything placed or left in it — at any rate unless it was concealed — while the occupier of a shop has been held not to be in possession of a thing dropped in a part of the shop to which the public had access .
3 A tow chain has been held not to be a ‘ part ’ ( Jenkins v Deane ( 1933 ) , 103 LJKB 250 ) but a tow bar connecting a vehicle and a trailer together has been held to come within the regulation where the joining was defective ( O'Neill v Brown 119611 1 QB 420 ) ,
4 Death has been held not to be an associated operation ( Bambridge v IRC ( 1955 ) 36 TC 313 ) .
5 However , in contrast to that of Hirtle , the analysis put forward here proposes that without to the idea of a prior position in time is not evoked , since otherwise the particle would be completely redundant and hence meaningless , which has been shown not to be the case .
6 If he does this , then a hypothesis has been put forward to be tested .
7 Although most agency workers are taxed and pay social security contributions as if they were dependent employees , and most think of themselves as an employee of the agency for which they work , the relationship between them and these agencies has been deemed not to be one of employment .
8 Instead of writing a story in which , say , at some crucial point the detective realises that the gun beside the corpse is not the one that fired the fatal shot , you will be writing a story in which the detective will perhaps realise that the theory of the murder being motivated by greed can not be correct because the suspect has been found unexpectedly to be secretly most generous .
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