Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] hold to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The way of life argument was often used against closure since schools were held to be an important aspect of local life since the loss of the teacher and the school building seemed like a sentence of death for the community . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | This practice was held to be lawful in an earlier case , in which Lord Justice Woolf referred to ; |
| 4 | Whether in fact any such obligations have been created depends on the construction of the lease ; and there is nothing which requires the lease to be constructed in such a way as to avoid , if possible , the creation of such obligations ( Bradshaw v Pawley [ 1980 ] 1 WLR 10 , where liability for rent was held to be retrospective ) . |
| 5 | Indeed , in Tolson this was expressed to be the case even where the crime was held to be one requiring proof of a mental element . |
| 6 | In Jones v Livox Quarries , the plaintiff 's position on the traxcavator was held to be one of the causes of his damage , although the most obvious risk to the plaintiff was that he would fall off . |
| 7 | Frightening a woman by looking into her bedsit at eleven at night causing her to fear violence was held to be immediate despite the fact that the victim could have escaped in the time it would have taken for the accused to get to her : Smith v Chief Superintendent , Woking Police Station ( 1983 ) 76 Cr App R 234 ( DC ) . |
| 8 | English cases are few , but a threat to get back money owing to the accused falls within s.34(2) ( a ) ( i ) : Parkes [ 1973 ] Crim LR 358 ; and a threat by a person suffering from osteoarthritis to a doctor that he would shoot him unless he was given a pain- killing injection was held to be blackmail in Bevans ( 1988 ) 87 Cr App R 64 ( CA ) , a decision which extends blackmail beyond being a property offence . |
| 9 | These buckets were held to be of merchantable quality ( but see paragraph 7–22 below ) . |
| 10 | Association of First Division Civil Servants ( D.C. , 1988 ) the delegation of certain functions under the Prosecution of Offences Act to non-lawyers was held to be unlawful . |
| 11 | Shelley and Partners Ltd , Mr Rose 's refusal to accept employment some 60 miles away from his home was held to be a reasonable refusal . |
| 12 | Thus , in Doughty ( 1986 ) , the crying of a 17-day-old child was held to be sufficient to fall within the requirement ( even though such an infant is not aware of the significance of what he or she is doing ) , whereas someone who loses self-control after a storm or explosion has destroyed his property would be outside the requirement . |
| 13 | Ltd. ( 1988 C.A. ) a 20-month-old Fiat was held to be unmerchantable because , unknown to the buyer , it had eight months earlier been totally submerged in water for over 24 hours and had consequently been treated as a ‘ write off ’ by its insurer . |
| 14 | Thus in Couturier v. Hastie ( 1856 H.L. ) a contract to sell a cargo of corn was held to be void because , unknown to the seller , the ship 's master had already sold it in Tunisia , as it had begun to ferment en route . |
| 15 | Philosophy was held to be a ‘ second-order subject ’ concerned only with reason , logic and the clarification of thought . |
| 16 | The plaintiff individual workers were held to be entitled to assert their right to transfer . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | But breaches of the injunction continued and the union officials were held to be in contempt , the union being fined £50,000 with sequestration of assets to follow , if needed . |
| 20 | The cause of the accident was held to be the unsafe system of work used by the plaintiff 's employers rather than use of the premises . |
| 21 | The defence of volenti was held to be inappropriate but the plaintiff 's damages were reduced for his contributory negligence in riding with a drunken driver and failing to wear a seat belt . |
| 22 | Thus , when the trustees applied the dividend monies for the benefit of the actor 's minor children the actor was held to be taxable upon the same . |
| 23 | The next case is Campbell v. Hall , 1 Cowp. 204 in which duty unlawfully exacted on the export of sugar from Grenada was held to be recoverable . |
| 24 | In Pappa v Rose ( 1872 ) LR 7 CP 525 , a broker deciding whether raisins were " fair average quality " in his opinion was held to be " in the position of a quasi-arbitrator " or " in the nature of an arbitrator " . |
| 25 | Though promotion from one class to another was possible , it was across a wide gulf as the distinction between classes was held to be the distinction between mechanical and intellectual activity . |
| 26 | Then the division into classes was held to be an impediment and a cause of frustration . |
| 27 | This enquiry found that the airship trials had been unsatisfactory and in their final report they stated that ‘ … no Government department , high official or group of individuals was held to be responsible ’ . |
| 28 | In 1985 regulations were held to be void as having no statutory authority where their purpose was to force able-bodied young people who lived on supplementary benefit to move from one area to another in search of employment . |
| 29 | In the event neither the manager nor the owners were held to be in breach of duty . |
| 30 | The profits of a Hong Kong company which granted fixed fee sub-licences of video films to overseas customers were held to be ‘ arising in ’ and ‘ derived from ’ Hong Kong by the Privy Council in Commissioner of Inland Revenue v HK-TVB International Ltd [ 1992 ] STI 745 . |