Example sentences of "[be] [adv] hold to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some properties of individuals are nevertheless held to be more significant than others . |
| 2 | CD4+ T cells are normally held to be the principal source of this mediator and the higher proportion of γ-interferon producing cells we found among lamina propria lymphocytes compared with intra epithelial lymphocytes is consistent with the relative numbers of CD4+ T cells in these sites . |
| 3 | We should not underestimate the power of official systems of classification of children , even when they are generally held to be inadequate by those that work with them . |
| 4 | The initial costs of the latter are generally held to be underwritten by the large surplus generated by any big hit record . |
| 5 | Many of these straits are noted for strong tidal currents , but although such currents may assist in moving away the debris of erosion , they are generally held to be impotent as a cause of marked marine erosion , at least of those which outcrop in this locality . |
| 6 | Sadism and masochism are usually held to be the opposite sides to the same coin , the one being merely an inversion of the state of mind which produces the other . |
| 7 | On Twelfth Night wassailers hang toasted bread on their most productive apple tree to attract the robins which are traditionally held to be good spirits . |
| 8 | ‘ It may well be that the factors which influenced the sheriff are strongly mitigating and should be given proper consideration by the children 's hearing when they come to consider the future arrangements for L on the footing that the grounds of referral are now held to be established . ’ |
| 9 | Both are then held to be deficient relative to Marx 's conception of a ‘ mode of production ’ within which differentiation can be understood , made intelligible and ultimately accountable to a materialistically grounded ethics of emancipation rooted in a conception of a ‘ complex ’ totality . |
| 10 | Certainly the taste for parody has n't deserted him ( witness the piano pieces in homage to Scarlatti , Medtner , Alkan , late Liszt et al ) ; nor has his taste for rum titles ( such as the choral work Oil or petrol Marks on a Wet Road are Sometimes held to be Spots where a Rainbow Stood ) . |
| 11 | His unpublished logarithmical tables were widely held to be a great advance on those of Henry Briggs [ q.v . ] . |
| 12 | The enabling statute always , explicitly or implicitly , states , if X 1 , X 2 , X 3 exist you may or shall do Y. Yet , if X 1 , X 2 , and X 3 , and all the elements constituting them , were always held to be jurisdictional in a legal sense , the dividing line between review and appeal would be emasculated : the tribunal would have power to give only the right answer , this meaning the answer which accords with the view of the reviewing court . |
| 13 | But there might also be , and were traditionally held to be , sentences that are true solely because of what they mean . |
| 14 | In Attorney General v Squire , it was held that obnoxious odours from pigs kept by the defendants , and arising from the number of animals , the place in which they were kept , and the food with which they were fed , were such as to create a public nuisance , and in Attorney General v Cole and Son noxious gases created by the defendant carrying on the trade of fat-melter were also held to be a public nuisance despite the fact that the defendant had carried on his trade , in a proper manner and in the same way for 30 years . |
| 15 | Glossy dark bronze-green foliage is widely held to be very resistant ; in some places it is , but in others it can look as though a flour sack has burst . |
| 16 | DEC is widely held to be the largest foreign computer company in the country , although IBM Corp 's turnover is unknown . |
| 17 | The first edition of Acid Earth is widely held to be the most comprehensive and effective popular book on the subject . |
| 18 | Curriculum reform , whether it is centrally determined or based on local or in-school planning , is generally held to be impossible unless it is firmly based on a plan for public examinations . |
| 19 | This exclusion is generally held to be applicable when a criminal prosecution is in prospect . |
| 20 | Bibury , 8 miles north-east of Cirencester , is generally held to be the most attractive of all the Cotswold towns and has a trout farm you can visit . |
| 21 | It is enough to recall that Ricardo 's labour theory of value , on which it depends , is generally held to be fallacious in its assertion that the price of goods or services is solely determined by the amount of socially necessary labour required to produce or provide them , and so ignores the cost of other inputs and the effect of demand . |
| 22 | This is generally held to be wildly optimistic , and in some quarters , an impossible timescale . |
| 23 | It is successful where temperate zone type methods are not , and is generally held to be the most efficient in terms of soil recovery . |
| 24 | Through our misjudgement of their knowledge , metaphor becomes a lie , and we are left with the disturbing conclusion that the truth of a message is something constructed by sender and receiver , and not only as is usually held to be the casea quality of the sender 's intention or the message itself . |
| 25 | The waterfall is usually held to be slowly flattened out by the erosion of the river so that the new section of the profile occupies successively the positions 1 to 6 ( Fig. 9.10A ) . |
| 26 | The development of normal reading and writing is usually held to be multiply determined and to arise from the mastery of a number of subcomponent skills , such as detailed visual analysis , effective motor control , linguistic skills--ranging form sentence comprehension to phoneme discrimination . |
| 27 | The proper modernist artefact is always held to be aesthetically pleasing precisely to the degree to which it exemplifies the adage that form follows function ( Benton and Benton 1975 ) . |
| 28 | The art of the gold box is traditionally held to be epitomised in the Paris tabatières , but the strength of this collection also lies in those boxes which were produced in peripheral workshops , especially in Germany and Russia . |
| 29 | The rainforest is also held to be useful to us because it will help to mitigate the worst impacts of global warming . |
| 30 | In sport , for example , the professional player is often held to be socially inferior , if at the same time technically superior , to the amateur . |