Example sentences of "[be] hold to [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since it was impossible to envisage the use of nuclear weapons in any way consistent with the laws of war , and since great and apparently law-abiding Powers possessed and threatened to use them , they must be held to be simply beyond the scope of international law , |
| 2 | Certainly , to the accountant , there is no reason why those doctors who are high spenders in their prescribing habits , should not be held to be financially accountable for their decisions . |
| 3 | It would be wrong to treat this case as a decision on the application of section 6. which was clearly not in the court 's contemplation , but it may be permissible to comment that if an offence of this kind is to be held to be sufficiently serious to justify a substantial community service order , the scheme of the Act , with its albeit clumsy attempt to raise the public perception of the severity of community sentences , seems destined to failure . |
| 4 | One response which can be made to the gap which exists between the world in which Christianity came into being and the present world is to allow what is to be held to be essentially normative for the religion to reside in the past . |
| 5 | It could be believed that God , whatever was understood by God , was equally close to all times and places ; that no particular period , and no particular events , were to be held to be more revelatory of God than others . |
| 6 | Support dipped sharply to 51 per cent only when the Americans were held to be largely or in part to blame for the failure of the Paris Summit in May 1960 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | As a result , women were held to be psychologically unstable . |
| 9 | Similar principles were applied in Mannion v Johnston ( 1988 ) STC 758 , heard at the same time , where two separate disposals of less than half the farm land were held to be merely limited changes of scale and not a disposal of part of the business . |
| 10 | For an instance where the medical expenses claimed were held to be unreasonably high , see Roberts v Roberts ( 1960 ) The Times , 11 March ; for cases where very high medical expenses were held to have been reasonably incurred , see Winkworth v Hubbard [ 1960 ] 1 Lloyd 's Rep 150 and Hamp v Sisters of St Joseph 's Mount Carmel Convent School Bar Library Transcript No 305B of 1973 ( Kemp & Kemp D2-011 and D2-100 ( Sweet & Maxwell ) , The Quantum of Damages , 2 , para 5 – 011 ) . |
| 11 | Segmentation based on usage contexts is held to be particularly efficient because it permits product and marketing planning to be based on customer perceptions of what is required of , or desirable in that product . |
| 12 | The taxation and social-security systems , for instance , assume that the man is working and the wife is not ; the wife is held to be financially dependent on her husband . |
| 13 | Budget maximization is held to be both rational and necessary for survival . |
| 14 | Where , however , regulation to forestall the socially damaging or self-destructive tendencies of the system or to rescue the poor is involved , state action is held to be deeply inadequate and seriously counterproductive . |
| 15 | The distinction between males and females is held to be so fundamental as to be unworthy of comment . |
| 16 | Even when the author credits the Muscovite government with moderate policies towards the Siberian natives , the motivation for its instructions that they be treated tenderly ( laskovo ) is held to be solely mercenary . |
| 17 | It will be recalled that , according to this theory , a stimulus is held to be fully effective only when it is able to generate the Al ( primary activation ) state in the node that constitutes its central representation . |
| 18 | In a nutshell , it is argued that either Van Valen 's results show linearity with time , which is held to be biologically without significance , or most do not , in which case Van Valen 's ‘ law ’ breaks down . |
| 19 | If so , Pyro has an action under the Act as personal injuries are covered by the Act ( s. 5(1) ) and none of the defences would appear to be relevant , unless Pyro is held to be contributorily negligent , when his damages would be reduced . |
| 20 | Incidentally , though Walker is held to be still more than a touch rusty after so long away from rugby — inclined , for instance , to carry the ball under the wrong arm — the rapidity with which he has come into cap contention ought to be food for thought for our own Jamie Henderson . |
| 21 | The law states that if the insured driver 's held to be just one per cent responsible , then his insurers have to pay . |
| 22 | The imaginary antagonist next argues that the argument contains a contradiction — namely , that as men are held to be primarily governed by their emotions in the attachment they have to religion , rationality will be of no avail against it . |
| 23 | This occurs where two motorists are held to be equally to blame for a collision and the plaintiff is injured . |
| 24 | Women who have maintained and/or developed an extensive network of personal relationships in middle age are held to be most favourably placed in coping with the problems of old age . |
| 25 | Mr. Roth contended that it is inconceivable that a party who has been held to be merely negligent should be required to contribute to the damages payable by a party who has been found guilty of fraud . |
| 26 | For an unusual case in which , on an interpretation of a bye-law , Monday , January 2 , was held to be properly treated as a Sunday for the purposes of supplying travellers , see Henderson v. Ross , 1928 J.C . |
| 27 | This was held to be so by the Court of Appeal in Newtons of Wembley v. Williams . |
| 28 | The guidance of logically interrelated principles in the effective integration of human effort was held to be far superior to an understanding of ‘ personalities or politics or a precarious balancing of power between various vested interests ’ ( Urwick 1947 , p. 118 ) . |
| 29 | Five shillings ( 2s. less than the lowest amount which , according to Rowntree , could support an individual for a week ) was held to be too low . |
| 30 | As the restriction sought to prevent the defendant from taking employment with a competitor in the general PVC calendering field it was held to be too wide . |