Example sentences of "[be] [adv] hold [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As 80–85 per cent of patents are generally held to derive from inventions made by employees in the course of their employment , the resolution of this issue had direct impact on the thousands of workplaces generating patent applications each year . |
| 2 | 12–3–1892 The classes were not held owing to the amount of sickness in the district . |
| 3 | Weediness is widely held to reside in a set of 13 traits , bearing on such matters as general hardiness , competitiveness , reproductive habits and germination of seed . |
| 4 | The abbreviation is widely held to stand for ‘ Buy Thermal Underwear . ’ |
| 5 | The view expressed in the cliche that ‘ the school is the heart of the community ’ is apparently held to apply to rural life in general . |
| 6 | The political basis of society is also held to rest on voluntary agreement , in the sense that citizens are conceived of entering into an implicit social contract whereby each surrenders the liberty to do whatever he wants and agrees to pay taxes and abide by laws in exchange for the advantages of living in a governed society , which provides him with law and order and , nowadays , a whole range of goods and services . |