Example sentences of "[was/were] hold to be [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In McAvan v London Transport Executive ( 1983 ) 133 NLJ 1101 reports prepared by a bus crew and an inspector after an accident were held to be privileged as their dominant purpose was to ascertain blame if a subsequent claim was made . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Thus in Couturier v. Hastie ( 1856 H.L. ) a contract to sell a cargo of corn was held to be void because , unknown to the seller , the ship 's master had already sold it in Tunisia , as it had begun to ferment en route . |
| 7 | It was held to be unambiguous and that , in the context , ‘ delivery ’ meant delivery of materials and not delivery of a completed operable system . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | See also Ginera v. City of Glasgow District Licensing Board , 1982 S.L.T. 136 where an application for Sunday opening in respect of a provisional grant of licence was held to be incompetent as the licence is not in force and only the holder of a public house licence can make application for Sunday opening . |
| 10 | The excess was held to be recoverable as not having been paid voluntarily . |
| 11 | The seizure was held to be lawful as police entering premises with a warrant had authority to remove anything which they believed to have been stolen . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The costs agreement was held to be valid and enforceable . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Volenti was held to be inapplicable as the doctor could not be said to have agreed to the risk . |
| 16 | Although Aurangzeb was held to be bold and valiant , he was capable of great dissimulation and hypocrisy . |
| 17 | Ltd. ( 1988 C.A. ) a 20-month-old Fiat was held to be unmerchantable because , unknown to the buyer , it had eight months earlier been totally submerged in water for over 24 hours and had consequently been treated as a ‘ write off ’ by its insurer . |