Example sentences of "[was/were] hold to be [adj] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hoffman LaRoche was praised as ‘ a highly competent organization with a product range of high quality ’ , but its enormous profits , sometimes as high as 60 or 70 per cent on capital employed , were held to be unjustified and the MMC recommended that the price of both Librium and Valium be halved . |
| 2 | Thus , in R v Lincoln ( Kesteven ) County Justices , ex p M ( a Minor ) [ 1976 ] 1 All ER 490 , evidence that a father was having incestuous relations with the two older sisters of a child before the court was held to be relevant and admissible . |
| 3 | It was held to be unambiguous and that , in the context , ‘ delivery ’ meant delivery of materials and not delivery of a completed operable system . |
| 4 | In later proceedings for the continuation of the Mareva injunction , it was held to be regular and proper practice for a plaintiff to commence proceedings on the same cause of action in several jurisdictions in order to obtain Mareva or corresponding relief . |
| 5 | The costs agreement was held to be valid and enforceable . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Although Aurangzeb was held to be bold and valiant , he was capable of great dissimulation and hypocrisy . |