Example sentences of "[adv] held [prep] [be] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Some properties of individuals are nevertheless held to be more significant than others . |
2 | It was thus held to be as authentic an image of the society within which it was produced as the gift , whose authenticity was premised upon its own totalizing ability . |
3 | This is generally held to be wildly optimistic , and in some quarters , an impossible timescale . |
4 | The proper modernist artefact is always held to be aesthetically pleasing precisely to the degree to which it exemplifies the adage that form follows function ( Benton and Benton 1975 ) . |
5 | In sport , for example , the professional player is often held to be socially inferior , if at the same time technically superior , to the amateur . |
6 | Glossy dark bronze-green foliage is widely held to be very resistant ; in some places it is , but in others it can look as though a flour sack has burst . |
7 | This work eventually encountered various great technical difficulties which , it seems , could only be resolved by what most people have regarded as unsatisfactory expedients , and so that the , the system in many ways that he evolved as an answer to this programme has not been commonly held to be entirely satisfactory . |