Example sentences of "[be] hold to have [be] " in BNC.

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1 Since then , negatively , he did not number them among the twelve , it may be held to have been his intention not to do so .
2 In each case the ‘ text ’ will be held to have been reproduced if the words , the punctuation and , where relevant , the lineation are reproduced accurately .
3 As an alternative to the last submission it was argued that the money was paid to and received by the revenue under an implied agreement that it would be held as a deposit against tax that might be held to have been due at the dates of payment and that it would be repaid if and when it turned out that no tax was due .
4 I would go further and accept that the armoury of common law defences , such as those which prevent recovery of money paid under a binding compromise or to avoid a threat of litigation , may be either inapposite or inadequate for the purpose ; because it is possible to envisage , especially in modern taxation law which tends to be excessively complex , circumstances in which some very substantial sum of money may be held to have been exacted ultra vires from a very large number of taxpayers .
5 Subject to that , an expert is not prohibited from following these litigation-style procedures , but he would be unwise to do so because the reference may subsequently be held to have been an arbitration and will in any event take longer and be more costly .
6 It was , therefore , open to argument that theoretically the income must be held to have been received by them .
7 As Dillon LJ pointed out in R & B Custom Brokers : … there are some transactions which are clearly integral parts of the businesses concerned , and these should be held to have been carried out in the course of those businesses ; this would cover , apart from much else , the instance of a one-off adventure in the nature of trade , where the transaction itself would constitute a trade or business .
8 Indeed , the Government has already agreed that the Directive applies , in a High Court action brought by college lecturers who were held to have been automatically transferred with their rights from the employment of local authorities to the new Further Education Corporations .
9 Thus , in Dorchester Finance Company Ltd v Stebbing , two non-executive directors were held to have been negligent in equipping an executive director with signed blank cheques who used them to make unrecoverable loans .
10 The defendants were held to have been negligent in selling the child the petrol but the child was not contributorily negligent .
11 For an instance where the medical expenses claimed were held to be unreasonably high , see Roberts v Roberts ( 1960 ) The Times , 11 March ; for cases where very high medical expenses were held to have been reasonably incurred , see Winkworth v Hubbard [ 1960 ] 1 Lloyd 's Rep 150 and Hamp v Sisters of St Joseph 's Mount Carmel Convent School Bar Library Transcript No 305B of 1973 ( Kemp & Kemp D2-011 and D2-100 ( Sweet & Maxwell ) , The Quantum of Damages , 2 , para 5 – 011 ) .
12 In later proceedings , " The Independent " and several other newspapers were held to have been in contempt of the court which had made the order against " The Guardian " and were fined , notwithstanding that by this time the Government had lost its original action against " The Guardian . "
13 Thus in Seager v Copydex Ltd [ 1967 ] 1 WLR 923 details of an unpatented invention disclosed in the course of negotiations relating to a similar patented invention were held to have been disclosed under an obligation of confidence .
14 Magda Lupescu was held to have been an avaricious and pernicious influence on Carol II .
15 In McKerrel v Robertson [ 1956 ] SLT 290 a woman pushing a pram was held to have been one entity and precedence should have been accorded where the pram was on the crossing but the pusher was still on the pavement .
16 The idea bears some analogy to the 1951 European Coal and Steel Community which brought these industries under an international authority to defuse the conflict of interest between Germany and France which was held to have been responsible for two world wars .
17 Ltd. ( 1960 ) 1 H.K.T.C. 85 which was held to have been rendered outside Hong Kong .
18 Where a certificate was transferred during the first half-year of its currency , and renewal of the transfer was refused at the October meeting , so that for its second half-year the certificate was in abeyance , the original holder , who resumed occupation of the premises and recommenced business , was held to have been rightly convicted of trafficking without a certificate : Miller v. Linton ( 1885 ) 15 R. ( J. ) 37 .
19 These decisions paved the way for Flattery and Williams in which rape was held to have been committed where the defendant , using neither force nor the threat of it , obtained the victim 's consent to intercourse by a fraud as to the nature of the act .
20 Inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) witnessed on May 30 the total destruction of the Al-Atheer nuclear complex on the grounds that its technical core was held to have been designed for weapons development [ see pp. 38838 ; 38886 ] .
21 Dalby was held to have been decided in the way that it was because a direction was needed whether or not there was an intervening act , i.e. the words in Dalby did not mean what they said .
22 The plaintiff 's claim was held to have been defeated by the maxim of ex turpi causa .
23 The plaintiff , in an action under the Factories Act 1961 , s. 14 , was held to have been 100% contributorily negligent after he admitted that what he had done had been extremely foolish .
24 For example in Dunford & Elliott Ltd v Johnson & Firth Brown [ 1978 ] FSR 143 information supplied to investors under cover of a letter making express reference to its confidential nature was held to have been imparted in circumstances of confidence ( although the action failed on other grounds ) .
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