Example sentences of "[num] [pron] [be] hold " in BNC.

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1 Thus in Reg. v. Pestano [ 1981 ] Crim.L.R. 397 it was held by the Court of Appeal that the credibility of evidence given by a witness inconsistent with a statement previously made by him was a matter for the jury to consider , subject to a proper warning by the judge as to the weight to be attached to the evidence .
2 Ltd. ( 1960 ) 1 H.K.T.C. 85 which was held to have been rendered outside Hong Kong .
3 The rotating presidency of the Council was held by Ireland for the first half of 1990 , by Italy for the second half of 1990 , and in 1991 it was held first by Luxembourg and then by the Netherlands .
4 In Weld-Blundell v Stephens [ 1920 ] AC 956 it was held that an accountant owed a duty to keep a letter of instructions confidential .
5 For example in Mustad v Allcock and Dosen [ 1963 ] 3 All ER 416 it was held that because the appellants had published the information which they alleged was confidential in a patent specification they were not entitled to an injunction restraining the respondents from disclosing that information .
6 Ch. 784 it was held that a promise to transfer shares in a company on which no deposit or other sum had been paid was made for consideration when the transferee agreed to do all acts necessary to relieve the transferor of liability in respect of the shares .
7 In Geo Mitchell ( Chesterhall ) Ltd v Finney Lock Seeds Ltd [ 1983 ] 2 AC 803 it was held that the defendants ' limitation of liability was unreasonable and therefore unenforceable under the Act ; a decisive factor was that in previous cases the defendants had settled claims without seeking to rely on the limitation clause , impliedly recognising that it was not reasonable .
8 In Levison v Farin [ 1978 ] 2 All ER 1149 it was held that it would not normally be enough " to make known the means of knowledge which may or do enable the other party to work out certain facts and conclusions " .
9 But in Harding v Price [ 1948 ] 1 All ER 283 it was held that if the driver did not know he had been involved in an accident the section did not apply .
10 170 it was held that the word ‘ convicted ’ in sections 9 and 12 of the Coinage Offences Act 1861 ( 24 & 25 Vict. c. 99 ) referred to no more than a finding of guilt .
11 In Buckland v Palmer [ 1984 ] 1 WLR 1109 it was held to be an abuse of the process of the court for a plaintiff 's insurance company to start a second action for insured losses when the plaintiff had accepted a payment into court in his action for uninsured losses .
12 In Conway ( 1990 ) 91 Cr.App.R. 142 ; [ 1990 ] Crim.L.R. 402 it was held that an identification parade might be called for notwithstanding that an identifying witness claimed to know the suspect , and had identified him by name .
13 However , in Family Housing Association v Jones [ 1990 ] 1 WLR 779 it was held that occupants of property granted to them as homeless persons were secure tenants .
14 In Stoneley v Richardson [ 1973 ] RTR 229 it was held that defective brakes do not have to be proved by an authorised examiner .
15 In Regina Glass Fibre v Schuller [ 1972 ] RPC 229 it was held that the licensee had the right to continue using improvement patents and know-how even after the end of the licence agreement .
16 He was only gone a minute , and when he returned , it was with a couple in their fifties who were holding hands as if they were desperately hanging on to reality .
17 In Reg. v. Miles ( 1890 ) 24 Q.B.D. 423 it was held that a person who had been convicted of an assault by a court of summary jurisdiction , but had been discharged , without any sentence of fine or imprisonment , on giving security to be of good behaviour , could not afterwards be convicted on an indictment for the same assault .
18 In Overbrooke Estates Ltd v Glencombe Properties Ltd [ 1974 ] 1 WLR 1335 it was held that a term excluding the authority of agents to make representations about the subject matter of the contract was not subject to the test of reasonableness in s3 of the Misrepresentation Act 1967 : its effect was to prevent the agent having apparent authority to make representations .
19 From about 1563 until his death in 1590 they were held by Charles Fox , although he had to share the Signet with John Dudley ; and in 1590 Fox was succeeded by Fulke Greville , who had already taken over Dudley 's share of the Signet and had acquired reversions to the Clerkship of the Council in 1577 and the Secretaryship in 1583 .
20 In Morgan v. Palmer ( 1824 ) 2 B. & C. 729 it was held that the plaintiff was entitled to recover from the Mayor of Great Yarmouth a sum which he had been required to pay as a condition of being granted a renewal of his publican 's licence , the payment having been demanded without lawful authority .
21 Conversely in Torrington Manufacturing Co v Smith and Son ( England ) Ltd [ 1966 ] RPC 285 it was held that a distributor 's right to use drawings of products supplied by the manufacturer was limited to the purpose and duration of the agreement .
22 In Moughal v. Motherwell District Licensing Board , 1083 S.L.T. ( Sh.Ct. ) 84 and Robertson v. Inverclyde Licensing Board , 1979 S.L.T. ( sh.Ct. ) 16 it was held that the licensing board were not entitled to proceed on local knowledge of the members , where the parties were not given an opportunity to comment thereon .
23 In Reeve v Webb ( 1972 ) 1 1 7 Sol Jo 1 27 it was held that alterations to exhaust pipes fall within another part of this regulation .
24 In Island Export and Finance Ltd v Umunna [ 1986 ] BCLC 460 it was held that a director 's fiduciary duty did not necessarily come to an end when he ceased to be a director .
25 In Keen v Parker [ 1976 ] RTR 213 it was held that a sidecar designed for the carriage of goods was just as much a sidecar as one which carried passengers .
26 In Nielson-Jones v Fedden [ 1975 ] Ch 222 it was held that it was not sufficient for the husband and wife to sign a memorandum to the effect that the husband was to have a free hand to sell the property and use the money to buy a new house for himself although in Burgess v Rawnsley [ 1975 ] Ch 429 it was held that a beneficial joint tenancy was severed by the oral agreement of one joint tenant to sell her share in the property to the other even though that agreement was not specifically enforceable .
27 On an appeal to the Court of Appeal [ 1992 ] Ch. 342 it was held that this statement should be produced subject to certain names and passages being omitted .
28 In In re Leighton 's Conveyance [ 1937 ] Ch. 149 it was held by the Court of Appeal that a statutory provision providing that ‘ a poor person shall not be ordered to pay any costs ’ did not affect a mortgagee litigant 's right to add his litigation costs to the mortgage security .
29 In the case of R v Spurge [ 1961 ] 2 All ER 688 it was held that it was at least careless driving where the driver took a vehicle on a road , knowing there was a defect such as defective steering or brakes .
30 In Nielson-Jones v Fedden [ 1975 ] Ch 222 it was held that it was not sufficient for the husband and wife to sign a memorandum to the effect that the husband was to have a free hand to sell the property and use the money to buy a new house for himself although in Burgess v Rawnsley [ 1975 ] Ch 429 it was held that a beneficial joint tenancy was severed by the oral agreement of one joint tenant to sell her share in the property to the other even though that agreement was not specifically enforceable .
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