Example sentences of "[be] hold to [be] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ronnie , I think , could be held to be a precursor of P for Patrick Doyle in Kelman 's novel of 1989 , A Disaffection . |
| 2 | It is also the case that people 's sex can not be held to be an effect of their job or their work record ; sex must be assumed to be causally prior to both of these variables . |
| 3 | An order or judgment determining that proceedings are at an end because of what is held to be a settlement is reasonably analogous and , adopting the pragmatic approach referred to for instance by Lord Denning M.R. in Salter Rex & Co. v. Ghosh [ 1971 ] 2 Q.B . |
| 4 | Latent inhibition is held to be a consequence of the formation of associations among these elements . |
| 5 | If the third party act is held to be a novus actus interveniens , then the defendant is not liable for any damage occurring after the act . |
| 6 | Newspaper articles criticising M.P.s have been held to be a contempt . |
| 7 | For instance , Heisenberg 's indeterminacy principle has been held to be a reason to reject the Law of Excluded Middle . |
| 8 | Jones & Smith may be inconsistent with Collins , where the accused could have been held to be a trespasser because he exceeded his permission to enter . |
| 9 | This was held to be a mistake sufficient to overturn the decision . |
| 10 | A stall with wheels was held to be a vehicle in this case . |
| 11 | Harrison v Hill [ 1932 ] SC ( J ) 13 where a road maintained by a farmer , leading from the public road to his farmhouse , was held to be a road , the farmer turned away people who were using it from time to time but it was also used by people having no business at the farm ; |
| 12 | In Bugge v Taylor ( 1940 ) 104 JP 467 the forecourt of a hotel was held to be a road . |
| 13 | Now , you are too young to be aware of this but in the past there was held to be a linkage between so-called ‘ self-abuse ’ and the sebaceous rigours of your time of life . |
| 14 | Against all odds , too , smallholders persisted in trying to grow com , for ploughing and reaping , rather than minding sheep , was held to be a man 's proper work ; the argument that the cornfield was the nursery of archers , who still formed the backbone of English armies , looks like a rationalisation of this instinct . |
| 15 | That was held to be a confession . |
| 16 | A good illustration of ‘ intended ’ is found in the case of Childs v Coghlan ( 1968 ) 112 Sol Jo 175 where a 30 ton earth mover which was made for use on construction sites and not roads was held to be a motor vehicle . |
| 17 | In that case the sale of woollen underwear across the counter was held to be a sale by description . |
| 18 | In this respect , a document purporting to be a sale of hire purchase agreements was construed by Eve J at first instance in Re George Inglefield [ 1933 ] Ch 1 , as a charge on book debts whereas , in the Court of Appeal ( at p27 ) , it was held to be a sale : " [ There is ] no reason whatever for attempting to drag the transaction within the operation of the section [ s 395 of the Companies Act 1985 ] by calling it something which in truth it is not . " |
| 19 | In Nichol v Godts ( 1854 ) 10 Exch 191 , a sale of " foreign refined rape oil , warranted only equal to samples " was held to be a sale by description so that a seller could not deliver something which , although equal to sample , could not match the contract description . |
| 20 | In Fagan ( see above and Chapter 4 ) , it was held to be a battery when the accused inadvertently applied force and wrongfully decided not to stop using it . |
| 21 | In so far as any thought was given to the curriculum , this was held to be a matter for expert ‘ curriculum designers ’ who spoke in a language all their own , and seldom impinged on the consciousness of the public . |
| 22 | 1983 S.L.T. ( Sh.Ct. ) 95 , it was held to be a breach of natural justice , where a licensing board consulted with the director of environmental health at their deliberations , where he had put in a report objecting to the grant of a licence . |
| 23 | In that case the making of a television series by the defendants based on a concept communicated in confidence by the plaintiffs was held to be a breach of confidence . |
| 24 | The second is that if , following the Francovich case , there was held to be a right to damages in such circumstances , the effect of requiring an undertaking from the council would be to impose liability in damages on the council instead of on the United Kingdom which , as I understand the position , would properly be the party so liable . |
| 25 | In Buckland v Palmer [ 1984 ] 1 WLR 1109 it was held to be an abuse of the process of the court for a plaintiff 's insurance company to start a second action for insured losses when the plaintiff had accepted a payment into court in his action for uninsured losses . |
| 26 | Then the division into classes was held to be an impediment and a cause of frustration . |