Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] held to [be] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is important to remember that if one act is held to be the sole cause of the damage and that act is one of the plaintiff , then the plaintiff will recover nothing . |
| 2 | The cause of the accident was held to be the unsafe system of work used by the plaintiff 's employers rather than use of the premises . |
| 3 | In his province , Huy remembered , Surere had tried to impose what he had interpreted as the supporting columns of a decent society : sexual responsibility and even monogamy were held to be the roots of a stable family ; sexual relations between members of that family were restricted to cousins . |
| 4 | Television is held to be the voice of France , by the French , and abroad . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Experience is held to be the foundation for effective pollution control : |
| 7 | 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 . |