Example sentences of "[noun pl] hold to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet feminists who made women 's right to enter the public sphere a priority never really addressed the issue of women 's role as wives and mothers , which late nineteenth-century doctors and scientists held to be the chief and necessary constraint on women 's achievements . |
| 2 | 1981 : 78 ) , there are the attributes held to be exemplified in the half-timbered , suburban , semi-detached , middle-class house : an ambivalent position in relation to town and country , an expression of individualism extended in the modern do-it-yourself tradition , a concern with compromise and a rejection of extremes , all set within statements about tradition and nationalism . |
| 3 | Even if some of them come for what others hold to be a wrong reason , they should not be discouraged or their motives despised . |
| 4 | The Arrangements document suggests that the concepts which will be studied in the Short Courses will be ones which ‘ contribute to beliefs and values held to be fundamental to our society . |
| 5 | The fact that the form is exhausted , however , has not prevented those novelists held to be of a satirical bent from making squillions of pounds : Tom Sharpe , Clive James and Keith Waterhouse ( above ) all shift paperbacks like nobody 's business , and good luck to them . |