Example sentences of "[noun] it [be] hold " in BNC.
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| 1 | In such circumstances , if the Bank wishes to sell the stock it is holding over a reasonable time period , it will often be unable to avoid reducing its price . |
| 2 | As a result it was held that the sellers ' right to repossess the goods did not arise until the expiry of the credit period allowed by the terms . |
| 3 | That was the lure of Persia — the fantastic attractions it was held for Westerner ever since the seventeenth century , when traders , ambassadors and princes began to bring back exotic spices , silks and tales . |
| 4 | In Roffey it was held that a procession was an ‘ assembly ’ for the purposes of the Air Navigation Order 1954 , and the commentary on that case points out that a procession was regarded as an assembly for the purposes of the old offence of unlawful assembly . |
| 5 | In Firth it was held that s.2(1) ( c ) covered omissions as well as commissions , a failure to give information that the accused 's patients were private ones . |
| 6 | In Casati it was held that the scope of that restriction might vary in time and depended on an assessment of the requirements of the Common Market and on an appraisal of both the advantages and risks which liberalization might entail . |
| 7 | Very soon after the enactment of the 1846 Act it was held by the courts that the action was based upon financial loss and nothing else . |
| 8 | In Wheeler it was held that while section 71 of the Race Relations Act 1976 allowed the council to consider the best interests of race relations when exercising its discretion in the management of a recreation ground , it could not , in the absence of any infringement of the law or improper conduct penalise a rugby club for failure to support the council 's policy of condemning a tour of South Africa . |
| 9 | Thus , in Hanson v. Church Commissioners it was held that where the matter was one in which there was a wider public interest it may not be possible for one party to withdraw without the assent of the other once the proceedings were begun . |
| 10 | It is too late to register a pending action if a bankruptcy petition has been presented against the husband ; in Re Flint ( 1992 ) The Times 16 July it was held that a transfer of the matrimonial home by order of the court in matrimonial proceedings to the wife in the period between the presentation of a bankruptcy petition against the husband and the bankruptcy order was void . |
| 11 | However , because of political circumstances it was held in France , in Lille . |
| 12 | The latter claimed that the car was still theirs since X had never paid and property had therefore never passed to X. It was held , however , that Mr. Carter had obtained good title under section 25 . |
| 13 | It might have been assumed that the corollary was that the prosecution did not have to prove that the accused assumed the rights of the owner contrary to the owner 's wishes but in Morris it was held that a person appropriated only if he adversely interfered with or usurped the rights of the owner . |
| 14 | In relation to recording on the file it was held that time spent in preparing typed file and attendance notes should be recorded , and will be recovered , provided that the time spent is not excessive . |
| 15 | For the last few years it was held up by 20 players of outstanding international standard and we did not realise that technically we were dying ’ . |
| 16 | On appeal to the Crown Court it was held that the defendant had no case to answer on the ground , put shortly , that the constable had not independently decided whether to require blood or urine but had simply followed the Metropolitan Police pro forma instruction then current . |
| 17 | Now when there is excess flood water it is held between them and let out slowly later . |
| 18 | Despite the uncertainty of holding this event it was held on Saturday , 2nd March and was a tremendous success despite the smallness of the numbers attending . |
| 19 | For example , in Malone v. Metropolitan Police Commissioner it was held that since there was no law against telephone tapping and it did not amount to any common law wrong , it was not unlawful for the police to engage in it . |
| 20 | The morning train from Sidney picked up milk from various farms for shipment to Victoria and on at least one occasion it was held up for two hours while cows , that had been turned into the bush the previous night to pick up what nourishment they could were searched for , rounded up , milked and the milk loaded for the trip to town . |
| 21 | on appeal from a taxation it was held that it was wrong to depress hourly rates to justify an unjustifiable mark-up. a mark-up in excess of 100% had to be justified by showing that the case was exceptional . |
| 22 | On appeal to the House of Lords it was held that the objection was well-founded . |
| 23 | Owing to the provisions of the Trade Disputes Act 1906 C could not rely upon a simple conspiracy to injure but in the House of Lords it was held that he was entitled to succeed on the ground of intimidation . |
| 24 | In Masterson v. Holden it was held that the conduct was insulting because the magistrates might properly have taken the view that such objectionable conduct in a public street may well be regarded as insulting in that it suggests to a witness that he or she is somebody who would find such conduct in public acceptable himself or herself . |
| 25 | And in Ansiminic Ltd. v. Foreign Compensation Commission it was held that a statutory provision that decisions of the Commission were not to be ‘ called in question in any court of law ’ was ineffective to exclude the quashing of a decision vitiated by jurisdictional error of law : its only effect was to prevent a decision being quashed for non-jurisdictional error of law . |
| 26 | In relation to this ground it was held unanimously that the condictio did not apply to the case of an error in law in interpreting an Act of Parliament . |
| 27 | For instance , in Shearson Lehman v Maclaine Watson it was held that even if the exchange had no power in its rules to suspend dealings on the tin market , such a rule should be implied , since it would be self-defeating if the exchange 's power to carry on business did not include , in certain circumstances , a power to cease part of that business . |
| 28 | At the time of this repossession by X the car clearly belonged to Z. This was because X had sold it to Y who had sold it to Z. It was held , however , that Y , in allowing X to repossess the car , was within the section . |
| 29 | In Breen v. Amalgamated Engineering Union a majority of the Court of Appeal held that a disciplinary committee of a trade union did not have to tell a shop steward why they had refused to endorse his election , and in McInnes v. Onslow-Fane it was held that the council of the Boxing Board of Control did not have to give an applicant for a manager 's licence an outline of their objections to him . |
| 30 | Gordon Woodroffe , a zoologist who has studied the water voles of the North York Moors , does not consider that the mink is the total rogue it is held out to be in some quarters , but it certainly appears to have caused the vole 's extinction on the Moors . |