Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [be] hold to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of particular importance from the Soviet point of view , states of this kind were held to be ‘ objectively anti-imperialist ’ in that they generally opposed the substantial control over their domestic affairs that had traditionally been exercised by the major capitalist powers . |
| 2 | This practice was held to be lawful in an earlier case , in which Lord Justice Woolf referred to ; |
| 3 | In 1985 regulations were held to be void as having no statutory authority where their purpose was to force able-bodied young people who lived on supplementary benefit to move from one area to another in search of employment . |
| 4 | Removal of water through artesian wells is held to be the reason why the tower began going off at an angle soon after building work began in 1174 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The plaintiff individual workers were held to be entitled to assert their right to transfer . |
| 7 | Such people were held to be possessed of none of the attributes of pure intellect , the cultivation of which was the purpose of education . |
| 8 | Not surprisingly , such policy was held to be invalid since it purported to override the express statutory duty , imposed by section 6(5) , to give effect to parental preference whether or not the child comes from the area of the local education authority . |
| 9 | Questions spiritual having thus been dealt with , there remained those of a temporal nature , of which a suitable civil list was held to be the most pressing . |
| 10 | These buckets were held to be of merchantable quality ( but see paragraph 7–22 below ) . |
| 11 | The guidance of logically interrelated principles in the effective integration of human effort was held to be far superior to an understanding of ‘ personalities or politics or a precarious balancing of power between various vested interests ’ ( Urwick 1947 , p. 118 ) . |
| 12 | The union of both right and left hemispheres in bilateral symmetry results , ideally , in the perfect man ; the enlightened one , as all Pharaohs were held to be . |
| 13 | Visual search is held to be multifaceted in nature , involving the growing regulation and interaction of children 's visual , linguistic and cognitive systems . |
| 14 | The profits of a Hong Kong company which granted fixed fee sub-licences of video films to overseas customers were held to be ‘ arising in ’ and ‘ derived from ’ Hong Kong by the Privy Council in Commissioner of Inland Revenue v HK-TVB International Ltd [ 1992 ] STI 745 . |
| 15 | This was at a time when the same gp160 product was being vigorously touted by MicroGeneSys as a prophylactic vaccine candidate ; a time when , as now , being able to mimic as closely as possible the natural viral antigens was held to be important for such a vaccine . |
| 16 | It is important to remember that if one act is held to be the sole cause of the damage and that act is one of the plaintiff , then the plaintiff will recover nothing . |
| 17 | Thus , in Doughty ( 1986 ) , the crying of a 17-day-old child was held to be sufficient to fall within the requirement ( even though such an infant is not aware of the significance of what he or she is doing ) , whereas someone who loses self-control after a storm or explosion has destroyed his property would be outside the requirement . |
| 18 | Fluctuations about these mean positions are held to be Gaussian and not dependent upon the strain . |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | In Lancashire , where the ILP had been well represented on local authorities and in the Trade Union movement , co-operation with the small and sectarian Communist Party was held to be damaging the ILP 's local influence . |
| 21 | The law states that if the insured driver 's held to be just one per cent responsible , then his insurers have to pay . |
| 22 | First , the Common Good' is held to be an illusory concept , which in practice is rarely used to refer to any aim that can fairly be called ‘ common ’ and which might not even refer to a good' at all ; pursuit of ‘ the Common Good ’ is therefore not useful as an identifying objective of democracy , and Schumpeter prefers to identify democracy not by its objectives but as a method . |
| 23 | Their overall inferior education is held to be a key factor world wide , and has been emphasised by data produced by the World Bank . |
| 24 | The signed statement was held to be ineffective since it was given after the contract was made and therefore could not incorporate terms into the contract . |
| 25 | Several unions were held to be in contempt , were fined and had their assets sequestrated . |
| 26 | The economic benefits were held to be significant . |
| 27 | By an ‘ ethical a priori ’ position I mean to indicate that certain principles are held to be an a priori and not subject to qualification . |
| 28 | That means that Woolwich were asserting a legal right to recover the payments in the event of the relevant Regulations being held to be ultra vires , and stating that the payments were made without prejudice to such right . |
| 29 | Latent inhibition is held to be a consequence of the formation of associations among these elements . |
| 30 | Women who have maintained and/or developed an extensive network of personal relationships in middle age are held to be most favourably placed in coping with the problems of old age . |