Example sentences of "[noun] [be] hold to [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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1 | It is the difference between a necessary empirical shift , when reasoning is taken across to one of its presumed objects and must take the full strain of the encounter , and a deceptive ( because falsely generalized ) empiricism , in which certain kinds of attention to certain presumptively autonomous objects are held to be justified and protected by the terms of an unargued immediacy . |
2 | Visual search is held to be multifaceted in nature , involving the growing regulation and interaction of children 's visual , linguistic and cognitive systems . |
3 | The infant is held to be beset by anxiety which is believed to be related both to the notion of the death instinct , and to its confrontation with the complexity and contradictory nature of its environment . |
4 | Such people were held to be possessed of none of the attributes of pure intellect , the cultivation of which was the purpose of education . |
5 | The bank were held to be affected by the knowledge of the independent solicitor , Mr. Hallworth , of the undue influence brought upon Mrs. Aboody to sign the particular charge . |
6 | If a duty was held to be owed , then it would probably be discharged by the warning notice . |