Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [was/were] hold to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Jones [ 1981 ] Crim LR 119 , minor abrasions and a bruise were held to be actual bodily harm , though the case was thought to be on the margins . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The omission of positive words in the statute requiring a hearing was held to be no bar since the justice of the common law would supply the omission of the legislature . |
| 4 | If a duty was held to be owed , then it would probably be discharged by the warning notice . |
| 5 | In Bugge v Taylor ( 1940 ) 104 JP 467 the forecourt of a hotel was held to be a road . |
| 6 | Discovery to find the identity of a wrongdoer was held to be available against anyone against whom the plaintiff has a cause of action in relation to the same wrong ; someone who has become ‘ mixed up in the affair ’ and incurred any liability to the person wronged must make full disclosure on that point even though the person wronged has no intention of proceeding against him . |
| 7 | 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 . |