Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [adv] hold to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both are multisystem granulomatous disorders , and patients commonly present with such similar symptoms that sarcoidosis was once held to be a variant form of tuberculosis . |
| 2 | That term was automatically held to be satisfied when the effects on the interests of the individual were felt to be serious enough to warrant procedural protection , and this was so whether the context was deprivation of an office , expulsion from a trade association , the destruction of one 's property , or the loss of something which would juridically be called a privilege . |
| 3 | The consequent adverse publicity was widely held to be damaging to the Labour cause . |
| 4 | Money paid by a citizen to a public authority in the form of taxes or other levies paid pursuant to an ultra vires demand by the authority was therefore held to be prima facie recoverable by the citizen as of right . |
| 5 | This situation was widely held to be responsible for Australia 's slowness in adopting new technology — automation in the motor industry was far less advanced than in western Europe — and for persistently low levels of labour productivity . |
| 6 | The vital date was long held to be 1825 , on a work published by Pickering ; but other claims are being advanced , and some inexpensive fun may be had by searching booksellers ' shelves in the endeavour to push the date back a little . |