Example sentences of "hold to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | This exclusion is generally held to be applicable when a criminal prosecution is in prospect . |
| 32 | Thus , natural justice has been held to be applicable to cases of disciplinary action within a university and to expulsion for failure in examinations , although in the latter case the examiners had based their decision on the personal attributes of the candidate as well as exam marks . |
| 33 | The Chief Justice did however stress that a by-law would not be held to be unreasonable simply because a particular judge thought that it went further than was prudent or necessary or convenient . |
| 34 | If the lapse of time is held to be unreasonable , there is no contract . |
| 35 | In M & S Drapers v Reynolds [ 1957 ] 1 WLR 9 Morris LJ said " I do not consider that a restriction … would necessarily be held to be unreasonable merely because it could be shown possibly to extend to one or two cases beyond the range of contemplated protection " . |
| 36 | The clause was held to be unreasonable . |
| 37 | In view of the high cost of property , the extent of the risk to a buyer if the survey report was negligent , the fact that the parties were of unequal bargaining power , the relatively low risk to the surveyor , and the fact that the parties would know that the buyer would be unlikely to obtain a second survey report , the clause was held to be unreasonable . |
| 38 | Curriculum reform , whether it is centrally determined or based on local or in-school planning , is generally held to be impossible unless it is firmly based on a plan for public examinations . |
| 39 | The creation or destruction of atoms or of energy was held to be impossible , at any rate for mankind — the beginning and end of the universe was generally accepted not to be the concern of scientists , down to very late in the century . |
| 40 | He is held to be efficient , fair-minded , scrupulously honest , and is well-liked by his colleagues . |
| 41 | Similarly , it was held to be contrary to natural justice to confirm an order on facts which the individual had no opportunity to show to be erroneous . |
| 42 | If the duty were held to be unexcludable , this would have the odd effect that a trespasser to premises not in business use could be better off than a visitor . |
| 43 | Thus , in R v Lincoln ( Kesteven ) County Justices , ex p M ( a Minor ) [ 1976 ] 1 All ER 490 , evidence that a father was having incestuous relations with the two older sisters of a child before the court was held to be relevant and admissible . |
| 44 | His point is a simple enough one : the application of technology is held to be value-free and independent of any human motives : |
| 45 | Thus , when the trustees applied the dividend monies for the benefit of the actor 's minor children the actor was held to be taxable upon the same . |
| 46 | The virtual absence of L1 producing cells beneath the follicle associated epithelium in Peyer 's patches may induce the immunostimulatory function of these macrophage rich structures , which are held to be crucial for induction of specific mucosal immunity . |
| 47 | There was a much-told tale of her Australian infancy that was held to be prophetic in this respect — about how at the age of three she had , by the sheer force of her will , compelled her uncle Walter ( who was taking her for a walk to the local shops at the time ) to put all the money he had on his person into a charity collecting-box in the shape of a plaster-of-Paris boy cripple ; as a result of which the uncle , too embarrassed to admit to this folly and borrow from his relatives , had run out of petrol on the way back to his sheep station . |
| 48 | The enabling statute always , explicitly or implicitly , states , if X 1 , X 2 , X 3 exist you may or shall do Y. Yet , if X 1 , X 2 , and X 3 , and all the elements constituting them , were always held to be jurisdictional in a legal sense , the dividing line between review and appeal would be emasculated : the tribunal would have power to give only the right answer , this meaning the answer which accords with the view of the reviewing court . |
| 49 | Distinctions between errors within and errors going to jurisdiction should be discarded ; any error of law should be held to be jurisdictional if the case depended upon it . |
| 50 | v. Grant , or some other authority to the same effect , and saying that by our law an offeror can be landed with a contract even though he never receives an acceptance , since the contract is held to be complete on the posting of the letter of acceptance . |
| 51 | Lower than expected corporate tax revenues and rising welfare expenditure were held to be accountable for the increased projection . |
| 52 | In later proceedings for the continuation of the Mareva injunction , it was held to be regular and proper practice for a plaintiff to commence proceedings on the same cause of action in several jurisdictions in order to obtain Mareva or corresponding relief . |
| 53 | Again , since truth is held to be individual and also fallible , rulership will be both conditional and also temporary ; because clearly the views as to what is true and therefore proper for government to act upon will change from time to time as opinion fluctuates amongst the body of the people . |
| 54 | This is analogous to the 1970 decision of the House of Lords in Bushell v Faith [ 1970 ] 1 All ER 52 , in which a provision about voting rights , which had the effect of making a special resolution incapable of being passed if a particular shareholder or group of shareholders exercised his or their voting rights against a proposed alteration of articles , was held to be enforceable ; an article in terms that no alteration shall be made without the consent of a particular member would be invalid , as it would come into direct conflict with statute law . |
| 55 | A substantial but prudent investment of finances is therefore essential to provide a safe service in which the clinical needs of patients are held to be primary . |
| 56 | Barley was not terrified of ‘ that most horrible of birds , the owl ’ , would pick up ‘ a chameleon , whose bite is held to be deadly ’ , and handled the claws of an ant-eater , believed to be potentially lethal . |
| 57 | Other types of fraud and mistake are held to be insufficient for the offence of rape , and bring the case within the lesser offence of procuring a woman by false pretences or false representations to have unlawful sexual intercourse ( section 3 , Sexual Offences Act 1956 , carrying a maximum penalty of two years ' imprisonment ) . |
| 58 | In one unreported case , a threat to the woman 's boyfriend was held to be insufficient . |
| 59 | Even if my assessment of its implications concerning the relative order of emergence of the intentional ingredient and of syntactic structure were held to be incorrect , the mechanism of that evolution might be of independent interest , and be seen as bearing on other problems besides ( especially in developmental psychology and theoretical linguistics ) . |
| 60 | This was held to be incorrect , but irrelevant ; incorrect , because a mere sense of alarm was insufficient to give rise to a fear of a breach of the peace , and irrelevant because the justices had found ( or there was evidence from which they could have found ) that the constables reasonably believed that the defendant 's own behaviour was likely to constitute a breach of the peace . |