Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] hold to [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Budget maximization is held to be both rational and necessary for survival . |
| 2 | Where , however , regulation to forestall the socially damaging or self-destructive tendencies of the system or to rescue the poor is involved , state action is held to be deeply inadequate and seriously counterproductive . |
| 3 | It will be recalled that , according to this theory , a stimulus is held to be fully effective only when it is able to generate the Al ( primary activation ) state in the node that constitutes its central representation . |
| 4 | This seems to be at variance with John Jones where a number of incidents over a period were held to be duplicitously charged as a single count of affray . |
| 5 | The taxation and social-security systems , for instance , assume that the man is working and the wife is not ; the wife is held to be financially dependent on her husband . |
| 6 | Women who have maintained and/or developed an extensive network of personal relationships in middle age are held to be most favourably placed in coping with the problems of old age . |
| 7 | The guidance of logically interrelated principles in the effective integration of human effort was held to be far superior to an understanding of ‘ personalities or politics or a precarious balancing of power between various vested interests ’ ( Urwick 1947 , p. 118 ) . |
| 8 | The law states that if the insured driver 's held to be just one per cent responsible , then his insurers have to pay . |
| 9 | Similar principles were applied in Mannion v Johnston ( 1988 ) STC 758 , heard at the same time , where two separate disposals of less than half the farm land were held to be merely limited changes of scale and not a disposal of part of the business . |