Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [be] hold to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This enquiry found that the airship trials had been unsatisfactory and in their final report they stated that ‘ … no Government department , high official or group of individuals was held to be responsible ’ . |
| 2 | The defence of volenti was held to be inappropriate but the plaintiff 's damages were reduced for his contributory negligence in riding with a drunken driver and failing to wear a seat belt . |
| 3 | For some the internal growth of firms is held to be the dominant force , with merger activity playing a distinctly secondary role [ Prais , 1976 ; Hart and Clarke , 1980 ] , whilst others hold that the opposite is the case [ Hannah and Kay , 1977 ] . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Now how a man who works on can think there 's anything funny about species I just ca n't understand erm but there it is. erm well , suppose , however , that in my view wrongly one did suppose that there was something erm in this sort of idea of the decoupling between the processes which we observed in single populations and erm the sort of mechanisms leading to large scale evolution , what kinds of processes are held to be important when it comes to large scale evolution events ? |
| 6 | Though promotion from one class to another was possible , it was across a wide gulf as the distinction between classes was held to be the distinction between mechanical and intellectual activity . |
| 7 | Then the division into classes was held to be an impediment and a cause of frustration . |
| 8 | A stall with wheels was held to be a vehicle in this case . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Association of First Division Civil Servants ( D.C. , 1988 ) the delegation of certain functions under the Prosecution of Offences Act to non-lawyers was held to be unlawful . |
| 11 | Health for women was held to be synonymous with healthy motherhood . |