Example sentences of "[be] hold to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if I thought strict liability for accidents wrong in principle , I would prefer that manufacturers of both washing machines and automobiles be held to that standard than that only one of them be . |
| 2 | Parents should be held to some degree , not necessarily to a tune of a thousand pound , but they should be made in some way , to be responsible for their |
| 3 | Some clauses would need to be printed in red ink with a red hand pointing to it before the notice could be held to sufficient . |
| 4 | Police believe there are several key factors which link the man being held to that killing : |
| 5 | English law has tended to confine narrowly the situations in which a mistake is held to negative the consent apparently given by the woman : only where the victim was made to believe that the man was her husband , or that the act to which she was being asked to consent was not sexual intercourse , is the mistake sufficiently fundamental to convert the apparently consensual sex into rape . |
| 6 | Both are held to economic ransom by a system that ensures they can never free themselves of debt — no matter how hard they try . |
| 7 | Then it became apparent that she was holding to some other lodestar . |