Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] hold to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why do words receive so much consideration in dispositions widely held to be free of form ? |
| 2 | But it is certainly intelligible , both as an account of the original motives inspiring such legislation and as the specification of an aim widely held to be worth pursuing , to say that the law is here concerned with the suffering , albeit only of animals , rather than with the immorality of torturing them . |
| 3 | This the court now held to be a valid return , although a general one , and , since it did not disclose on its face any irregularity or wrongful cause , it precluded the intervention of the courts . |
| 4 | In an assertion of civilian authority , the interim government of Prime Minister Anand Panyarachun on Aug. 1 demoted three top military leaders widely held to be responsible for the shooting of pro-democracy demonstrators by the military in May [ see pp. 38894-95 ] . |
| 5 | 15.5.2 Case with no dispute yet held to be an arbitration |