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

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1 Ronnie , I think , could be held to be a precursor of P for Patrick Doyle in Kelman 's novel of 1989 , A Disaffection .
2 In the ultimate resort also , the association of a constituency must be held to be the proper exponent of its wishes . "
3 It is also the case that people 's sex can not be held to be an effect of their job or their work record ; sex must be assumed to be causally prior to both of these variables .
4 The words " but not otherwise " were held to be a sufficient contra-indication to make time of the essence .
5 In his province , Huy remembered , Surere had tried to impose what he had interpreted as the supporting columns of a decent society : sexual responsibility and even monogamy were held to be the roots of a stable family ; sexual relations between members of that family were restricted to cousins .
6 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 .
7 Latent inhibition is held to be a consequence of the formation of associations among these elements .
8 An order or judgment determining that proceedings are at an end because of what is held to be a settlement is reasonably analogous and , adopting the pragmatic approach referred to for instance by Lord Denning M.R. in Salter Rex & Co. v. Ghosh [ 1971 ] 2 Q.B .
9 Their overall inferior education is held to be a key factor world wide , and has been emphasised by data produced by the World Bank .
10 If the third party act is held to be a novus actus interveniens , then the defendant is not liable for any damage occurring after the act .
11 Removal of water through artesian wells is held to be the reason why the tower began going off at an angle soon after building work began in 1174 .
12 Social Integration of Incomers and Shetlanders is held to be the aim , and an achievable aim : achievable especially by dispersal of housing ( DDP : 28 ) .
13 For some the internal growth of firms is held to be the dominant force , with merger activity playing a distinctly secondary role [ Prais , 1976 ; Hart and Clarke , 1980 ] , whilst others hold that the opposite is the case [ Hannah and Kay , 1977 ] .
14 ISAM-XA , an X/Open-compliant resource manager for those wishing to access transaction processing monitors from data held in indexed sequential file systems — despite all the noise , relational still accounts for only 10% of data — is held to be the brightest hope for the future .
15 Television is held to be the voice of France , by the French , and abroad . ’
16 Experience is held to be the foundation for effective pollution control :
17 It is important to remember that if one act is held to be the sole cause of the damage and that act is one of the plaintiff , then the plaintiff will recover nothing .
18 As there are many dipterocarps at Sepilok , the rarity of food plants there is held to be the main reason for the greater home range and lower population density compared with P. melalophos at Kuala Lompat : the home range is some 70–84ha compared with 31.5 .
19 Thinking is held to be an effective activity which involves mental ‘ work ’ .
20 First , the Common Good' is held to be an illusory concept , which in practice is rarely used to refer to any aim that can fairly be called ‘ common ’ and which might not even refer to a good' at all ; pursuit of ‘ the Common Good ’ is therefore not useful as an identifying objective of democracy , and Schumpeter prefers to identify democracy not by its objectives but as a method .
21 Motor vehicles and coal-fired power stations are held to be the main offenders .
22 By an ‘ ethical a priori ’ position I mean to indicate that certain principles are held to be an a priori and not subject to qualification .
23 Today people conceive as ‘ real ’ that which , within a dominantly Platonist framework of thought , would have been held to be a particular instance of what could be said most truly to exist .
24 Newspaper articles criticising M.P.s have been held to be a contempt .
25 For instance , Heisenberg 's indeterminacy principle has been held to be a reason to reject the Law of Excluded Middle .
26 Jones & Smith may be inconsistent with Collins , where the accused could have been held to be a trespasser because he exceeded his permission to enter .
27 No useful purpose would be served by attempting to set out here an exhaustive list of items that have been held to be an admissible claim for damages .
28 These lines , said Tolkien , ‘ have been held to be the finest expression of the northern heroic spirit , Norse or English ; the clearest statement of the doctrine of uttermost endurance in the service of indomitable will ’ .
29 For that God has been conceived as male , and that biblical teaching which arose out of a patriarchal society has been held to be the revelation of God , must surely be seen to be the underlying facts of western culture which have led to discrimination against women .
30 The omission of positive words in the statute requiring a hearing was held to be no bar since the justice of the common law would supply the omission of the legislature .
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