Example sentences of "[be] hold to [be] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the ultimate resort also , the association of a constituency must be held to be the proper exponent of its wishes . " |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Social Integration of Incomers and Shetlanders is held to be the aim , and an achievable aim : achievable especially by dispersal of housing ( DDP : 28 ) . |
| 5 | 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 ] . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Television is held to be the voice of France , by the French , and abroad . ’ |
| 8 | Experience is held to be the foundation for effective pollution control : |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Motor vehicles and coal-fired power stations are held to be the main offenders . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Questions spiritual having thus been dealt with , there remained those of a temporal nature , of which a suitable civil list was held to be the most pressing . |
| 15 | Rodrigo was yet but a youth , and the Count was a mighty man in arms , one who gave his voice first in the Cortes , and was held to be the best in the war , and so powerful that he had a thousand friends among the mountains . |
| 16 | The benefit to be assessed on teachers at Malvern College in respect of their children 's education there was held to be the marginal cost to the school of providing the education , less any contribution the teachers made . |
| 17 | One of the things that surprised me when I first read the New Testament seriously was that it was always talking about a Dark Power in the universe — a mighty evil spirit who was held to be the Power behind death and disease , and sin . |
| 18 | This was held to be the case in Mantovani v. |
| 19 | Danzig was a party to the Treaty of Paris of 1920 but not to the Treaty of Versailles , which was held to be the source of the rights conferred upon Poland and the organic limitations on Danzig . |
| 20 | Several had considered maths or engineering , or both ; maths was generally dismissed as ‘ too theoretical ’ , while engineering was dismissed as ‘ too applied ’ : physics was held to be the perfect happy medium — applied enough to be ‘ relevant ’ ( a favourite adjective amongst both the science and the arts students ) , but theoretical enough to be stimulating and demanding . |
| 21 | Such was held to be the case in Sebel Products Ltd. v. Commissioners of Customs and Excise [ 1949 ] Ch. 409 ( although the legal basis upon which Vaisey J. there inferred the existence of such an agreement may be open to criticism ) . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Such an attitude explains the attractions of the Friars and other contemporary groups who embraced poverty in their search for salvation and a return to what was held to be the simplicity of the " primitive " Church ; but it was remote from the active role of the papacy from the eleventh century onwards , committed to achieving its aims through government , diplomacy and the law . |
| 24 | The system , including the computer programs , was held to be the proper subject matter of a patent because the programs were embodied in physical form ; they were " hard-wired " , permanently embedded in the electronic circuits of the equipment . |
| 25 | This was held to be the wrong approach by the House of Lords . |
| 26 | 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 . |