Example sentences of "hold [prep] be an " in BNC.
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| 1 | The story , published in the USA in 1845 , was reprinted in England as a pamphlet with the title , Mesmerism in Articulo Mortis , and was widely held to be an account of a real experiment . |
| 2 | He was also considered in some quarters to be less than entirely open in his Turf operations : his trainer Tom Coulthwaite had had his licence withdrawn earlier in 1913 over the running of two Ismay horses , though this was widely held to be an injustice . |
| 3 | It is also the case that people 's sex can not be held to be an effect of their job or their work record ; sex must be assumed to be causally prior to both of these variables . |
| 4 | The way of life argument was often used against closure since schools were held to be an important aspect of local life since the loss of the teacher and the school building seemed like a sentence of death for the community . |
| 5 | By an ‘ ethical a priori ’ position I mean to indicate that certain principles are held to be an a priori and not subject to qualification . |
| 6 | Thinking is held to be an effective activity which involves mental ‘ work ’ . |
| 7 | Then the division into classes was held to be an impediment and a cause of frustration . |
| 8 | First , the Common Good' is held to be an illusory concept , which in practice is rarely used to refer to any aim that can fairly be called ‘ common ’ and which might not even refer to a good' at all ; pursuit of ‘ the Common Good ’ is therefore not useful as an identifying objective of democracy , and Schumpeter prefers to identify democracy not by its objectives but as a method . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | No useful purpose would be served by attempting to set out here an exhaustive list of items that have been held to be an admissible claim for damages . |
| 11 | 15.5.2 Case with no dispute yet held to be an arbitration |
| 12 | The covenant was held to be an unreasonable restraint of trade . |
| 13 | He could also reduce the solemn to the apparently trivial ( ‘ nothing in this life is wholly serious ’ ) , lending often to his ordinary conversation , as to his poetry , that element of surprise which Elgar Allan Poe held to be an essential ingredient of art itself . |