Example sentences of "[noun] was hold [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 31 | L. , 1976 ) water authorities had a statutory power to make orders imposing charges on persons not connected to mains drainage was held to be ultra vires as the correct state of affairs did not exist as a precondition to the exercise of the power . |
| 32 | This was at a time when the same gp160 product was being vigorously touted by MicroGeneSys as a prophylactic vaccine candidate ; a time when , as now , being able to mimic as closely as possible the natural viral antigens was held to be important for such a vaccine . |
| 33 | This waiver clause was held to be a genuine stipulation pour autrui . |
| 34 | The clause was held to be unreasonable . |
| 35 | In view of the high cost of property , the extent of the risk to a buyer if the survey report was negligent , the fact that the parties were of unequal bargaining power , the relatively low risk to the surveyor , and the fact that the parties would know that the buyer would be unlikely to obtain a second survey report , the clause was held to be unreasonable . |
| 36 | See also Ginera v. City of Glasgow District Licensing Board , 1982 S.L.T. 136 where an application for Sunday opening in respect of a provisional grant of licence was held to be incompetent as the licence is not in force and only the holder of a public house licence can make application for Sunday opening . |
| 37 | This argument was rejected and the patent was held to be valid as the many unsuccessful attempts by inventors to find a solution coupled with the immediate commercial success of the present invention denied the possibility of a finding of obviousness . |
| 38 | The guidance of logically interrelated principles in the effective integration of human effort was held to be far superior to an understanding of ‘ personalities or politics or a precarious balancing of power between various vested interests ’ ( Urwick 1947 , p. 118 ) . |
| 39 | The pastry crust was embellished with a tiny figure and the whole thing was held to be representative of Christ in the crib . |
| 40 | ( D.C. 1988 ) , a legal aid application was held to be subject to legal privilege . |
| 41 | In that case the making of a television series by the defendants based on a concept communicated in confidence by the plaintiffs was held to be a breach of confidence . |
| 42 | The signed statement was held to be ineffective since it was given after the contract was made and therefore could not incorporate terms into the contract . |
| 43 | The omission of positive words in the statute requiring a hearing was held to be no bar since the justice of the common law would supply the omission of the legislature . |
| 44 | Questions spiritual having thus been dealt with , there remained those of a temporal nature , of which a suitable civil list was held to be the most pressing . |
| 45 | If a duty was held to be owed , then it would probably be discharged by the warning notice . |
| 46 | The seizure was held to be lawful as police entering premises with a warrant had authority to remove anything which they believed to have been stolen . |
| 47 | In Bugge v Taylor ( 1940 ) 104 JP 467 the forecourt of a hotel was held to be a road . |
| 48 | 570 an order deciding a preliminary issue of documentary construction was held to be a final order for the purposes of an appeal under the Supreme Court Act 1981 which does not allow an appeal to the Court of Appeal in England without leave from an interlocutory order . |
| 49 | Health for women was held to be synonymous with healthy motherhood . |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | It was unthinkable that a Bonaparte , the heir to the throne , should not receive a baptism of fire and the Prince was held to be old enough to face up to this . |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | Several had considered maths or engineering , or both ; maths was generally dismissed as ‘ too theoretical ’ , while engineering was dismissed as ‘ too applied ’ : physics was held to be the perfect happy medium — applied enough to be ‘ relevant ’ ( a favourite adjective amongst both the science and the arts students ) , but theoretical enough to be stimulating and demanding . |
| 54 | The decision was held to be unconstitutional by the Supreme Soviet Presidium on 20 November and the Baltic republics came in for severe criticism from other delegates at the Supreme Soviet session on 1 December which passed the constitutional amendments into law . |
| 55 | A good illustration of ‘ intended ’ is found in the case of Childs v Coghlan ( 1968 ) 112 Sol Jo 175 where a 30 ton earth mover which was made for use on construction sites and not roads was held to be a motor vehicle . |
| 56 | The costs agreement was held to be valid and enforceable . |
| 57 | In one unreported case , a threat to the woman 's boyfriend was held to be insufficient . |
| 58 | In other cases the fact that the rent was to be " conclusively fixed " by the landlord 's trigger notice if the tenant failed to give counter-notice in time was held to be a sufficient indication that time was of the essence ( Mammoth Greeting Cards v Agra [ 1990 ] 2 EGLR 124 ; Barrett Estate Services v David Greig ( Retail ) [ 1991 ] 2 EGLR 123 ) . |
| 59 | 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 . |
| 60 | Volenti was held to be inapplicable as the doctor could not be said to have agreed to the risk . |