Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [adv] hold to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both are multisystem granulomatous disorders , and patients commonly present with such similar symptoms that sarcoidosis was once held to be a variant form of tuberculosis . |
| 2 | That term was automatically held to be satisfied when the effects on the interests of the individual were felt to be serious enough to warrant procedural protection , and this was so whether the context was deprivation of an office , expulsion from a trade association , the destruction of one 's property , or the loss of something which would juridically be called a privilege . |
| 3 | Some properties of individuals are nevertheless held to be more significant than others . |
| 4 | His unpublished logarithmical tables were widely held to be a great advance on those of Henry Briggs [ q.v . ] . |
| 5 | The consequent adverse publicity was widely held to be damaging to the Labour cause . |
| 6 | This exclusion is generally held to be applicable when a criminal prosecution is in prospect . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The development of normal reading and writing is usually held to be multiply determined and to arise from the mastery of a number of subcomponent skills , such as detailed visual analysis , effective motor control , linguistic skills--ranging form sentence comprehension to phoneme discrimination . |
| 9 | Money paid by a citizen to a public authority in the form of taxes or other levies paid pursuant to an ultra vires demand by the authority was therefore held to be prima facie recoverable by the citizen as of right . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | In Attorney General v Squire , it was held that obnoxious odours from pigs kept by the defendants , and arising from the number of animals , the place in which they were kept , and the food with which they were fed , were such as to create a public nuisance , and in Attorney General v Cole and Son noxious gases created by the defendant carrying on the trade of fat-melter were also held to be a public nuisance despite the fact that the defendant had carried on his trade , in a proper manner and in the same way for 30 years . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | Her companion in the driver 's seat who controlled the gears and the foot controls was also held to be driving . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The rainforest is also held to be useful to us because it will help to mitigate the worst impacts of global warming . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | DEC is widely held to be the largest foreign computer company in the country , although IBM Corp 's turnover is unknown . |
| 20 | The waterfall is usually held to be slowly flattened out by the erosion of the river so that the new section of the profile occupies successively the positions 1 to 6 ( Fig. 9.10A ) . |
| 21 | Sadism and masochism are usually held to be the opposite sides to the same coin , the one being merely an inversion of the state of mind which produces the other . |
| 22 | Since it is a deliberate response to God 's truth , unbelief is definitely held to be responsible . |
| 23 | The vital date was long held to be 1825 , on a work published by Pickering ; but other claims are being advanced , and some inexpensive fun may be had by searching booksellers ' shelves in the endeavour to push the date back a little . |
| 24 | CD4+ T cells are normally held to be the principal source of this mediator and the higher proportion of γ-interferon producing cells we found among lamina propria lymphocytes compared with intra epithelial lymphocytes is consistent with the relative numbers of CD4+ T cells in these sites . |
| 25 | In sport , for example , the professional player is often held to be socially inferior , if at the same time technically superior , to the amateur . |
| 26 | The first edition of Acid Earth is widely held to be the most comprehensive and effective popular book on the subject . |