Example sentences of "[conj] [be] [adv] hold to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there might also be , and were traditionally held to be , sentences that are true solely because of what they mean . |
| 2 | It is successful where temperate zone type methods are not , and is generally held to be the most efficient in terms of soil recovery . |
| 3 | The story , published in the USA in 1845 , was reprinted in England as a pamphlet with the title , Mesmerism in Articulo Mortis , and was widely held to be an account of a real experiment . |
| 4 | In the Society 's view , there is a risk that many thousands of people will be improperly denied legal advice if the Regulations come into force on 12th April , but are subsequently held to be unlawful . |
| 5 | Through our misjudgement of their knowledge , metaphor becomes a lie , and we are left with the disturbing conclusion that the truth of a message is something constructed by sender and receiver , and not only as is usually held to be the casea quality of the sender 's intention or the message itself . |