Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] is hold to be " in BNC.

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1 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 .
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 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 .
4 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 .
5 Their overall inferior education is held to be a key factor world wide , and has been emphasised by data produced by the World Bank .
6 Latent inhibition is held to be a consequence of the formation of associations among these elements .
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