Example sentences of "[adv] hold to [be] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The art of the gold box is traditionally held to be epitomised in the Paris tabatières , but the strength of this collection also lies in those boxes which were produced in peripheral workshops , especially in Germany and Russia . |
| 32 | But there might also be , and were traditionally held to be , sentences that are true solely because of what they mean . |
| 33 | On Twelfth Night wassailers hang toasted bread on their most productive apple tree to attract the robins which are traditionally held to be good spirits . |
| 34 | In sport , for example , the professional player is often held to be socially inferior , if at the same time technically superior , to the amateur . |
| 35 | ‘ It may well be that the factors which influenced the sheriff are strongly mitigating and should be given proper consideration by the children 's hearing when they come to consider the future arrangements for L on the footing that the grounds of referral are now held to be established . ’ |
| 36 | This the court now held to be a valid return , although a general one , and , since it did not disclose on its face any irregularity or wrongful cause , it precluded the intervention of the courts . |
| 37 | For example , the ( now held to be correct ) notion that prolonged lactation was likely to delay impregnation had a long resonance . |
| 38 | And thus the practical was gradually and increasingly held to be what the ‘ no-hopers ’ engaged in . |
| 39 | Certainly the taste for parody has n't deserted him ( witness the piano pieces in homage to Scarlatti , Medtner , Alkan , late Liszt et al ) ; nor has his taste for rum titles ( such as the choral work Oil or petrol Marks on a Wet Road are Sometimes held to be Spots where a Rainbow Stood ) . |
| 40 | Thus for example it is sometimes held to be of significance that the first appearance of the resurrected Christ is said to have been to a woman . |
| 41 | Both are then held to be deficient relative to Marx 's conception of a ‘ mode of production ’ within which differentiation can be understood , made intelligible and ultimately accountable to a materialistically grounded ethics of emancipation rooted in a conception of a ‘ complex ’ totality . |
| 42 | It came from statesmen and reformers who held that entails , by precluding a free market in land , artificially raised its value so that investment became unprofitable ; it was a hindrance to a wider diffusion of ownership , which was universally held to be a precondition of increased production . |
| 43 | 15.5.2 Case with no dispute yet held to be an arbitration |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | Why do words receive so much consideration in dispositions widely held to be free of form ? |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | DEC is widely held to be the largest foreign computer company in the country , although IBM Corp 's turnover is unknown . |
| 49 | But it is certainly intelligible , both as an account of the original motives inspiring such legislation and as the specification of an aim widely held to be worth pursuing , to say that the law is here concerned with the suffering , albeit only of animals , rather than with the immorality of torturing them . |
| 50 | Judging by the critical reaction to certain passages in the third of my recent Reith Lectures this dogma is very widely held to be a self-evident truth . |
| 51 | The consequent adverse publicity was widely held to be damaging to the Labour cause . |
| 52 | His unpublished logarithmical tables were widely held to be a great advance on those of Henry Briggs [ q.v . ] . |
| 53 | The first edition of Acid Earth is widely held to be the most comprehensive and effective popular book on the subject . |
| 54 | This situation was widely held to be responsible for Australia 's slowness in adopting new technology — automation in the motor industry was far less advanced than in western Europe — and for persistently low levels of labour productivity . |
| 55 | In an assertion of civilian authority , the interim government of Prime Minister Anand Panyarachun on Aug. 1 demoted three top military leaders widely held to be responsible for the shooting of pro-democracy demonstrators by the military in May [ see pp. 38894-95 ] . |
| 56 | Since it is a deliberate response to God 's truth , unbelief is definitely held to be responsible . |
| 57 | On the other hand , if an explanation is given , the creditor may be taken to have assumed a duty of care and to be at risk of liability in damages if the explanation is subsequently held to be inadequate . |
| 58 | In the Society 's view , there is a risk that many thousands of people will be improperly denied legal advice if the Regulations come into force on 12th April , but are subsequently held to be unlawful . |
| 59 | Similarly , the course of improvement from infectious illnesses accompanied by fever has been commonly held to be intimately connected with sleeping , so that a fever typically " breaks " during the night , while the temperature reaches a maximal high , and then as it reverts to near-normal the patient falls into a deep restorative sleep . |
| 60 | Robert Rogers comments on what is commonly held to be the widespread use of metaphor among schizophrenics . |