Example sentences of "[noun] [be] hold to [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | These buckets were held to be of merchantable quality ( but see paragraph 7–22 below ) . |
2 | But breaches of the injunction continued and the union officials were held to be in contempt , the union being fined £50,000 with sequestration of assets to follow , if needed . |
3 | In the event neither the manager nor the owners were held to be in breach of duty . |
4 | An architect certifying amounts payable to a contractor under a building contract was held to be in the position of an arbitrator in Stevenson v Watson ( 1879 ) 4 CP 148 and therefore not liable to the contractor , and , by a considerable extension of the same argument , not liable to the employer either in Chambers v Goldthorpe [ 1901 ] 1 KB 624 . |
5 | Nevertheless , among the middle class , there were few institutions so revered as the schools , and their influence in clubs was held to be of great consequence as reformers regularly called for public-school men to come forward to work in the clubs . |
6 | Several unions were held to be in contempt , were fined and had their assets sequestrated . |
7 | The decision in Bell was held to be of doubtful validity in Maitland Ptr. , 1961 S.L.T. 384 , where a licensing court was directed to hold a special sitting after it had , per incuriam , failed to declare a provisional grant final . |