Example sentences of "and held [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Court of Justice condemned this legislation and held that it was discriminatory and contrary to the right of establishment . |
| 2 | Jovellanos regarded rent control as useless and an evil in itself ; he considered land as a commodity that must find its natural price in the open market and held that it was ‘ vanity ’ to try to protect peasants from the effects of economic laws . |
| 3 | The judge gave short shrift to an argument based on the right to free speech , and held that it did not affect his primary conclusion as stated above . |
| 4 | It suggested that submission obtained by threats other than of violence might suffice for rape and held that it should be left to the jury , with adequate direction from the judge , to make up its mind whether or not on the facts of each case the woman had truly consented . |
| 5 | The majority of their lordships rejected this argument and held that it had been intended that a customer who accepted the offer by buying four gallons would thereby become entitled in law to have a World Cup coin . |
| 6 | The court rejected the " uncommercial " suggestion that the reference , to achieve those results , would have had to have been to arbitration , and held that it was irrelevant whether the architect issued his certificate mistakenly , because both parties had taken the risk he might do that . |