Example sentences of "[be] presumed to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All children under 14 will be presumed to be competent wit nesses . |
| 2 | A gratuitous transfer of property into the joint names of himself and another will be presumed to be made upon trust for the person transferring , unless there is something to show that a benefit to the transferee was intended ; such intention will be presumed where the transfer is made by a father to his child . |
| 3 | The point is that it can not be presumed to be , without careful enquiry into the whole range of factors that bear upon educational decisions . |
| 4 | It further adds that an object ‘ normally dedicated to civilian purposes , such as a place of worship , a house or other dwelling or a school ’ shall in case of doubt be presumed to be making no effective contribution to military action . |
| 5 | The basic principle of English criminal law , that a person should be presumed to be innocent until proven to have committed a criminal offence , produces another principle . |
| 6 | By a notice of appeal dated 22 July 1991 the administrators appealed on the grounds , inter alia , that ( 1 ) the judge had erred in law in holding that the court had no jurisdiction to make any order under section 238 of the Act of 1986 against the bank ; ( 2 ) the judge should have held that the words ‘ any person ’ in section 238 meant ( in the case of a company ) any company , whether or not registered in England and Wales , or having a place of business in England and Wales , or carrying on business in England and Wales at the time of the transaction complained of ; alternatively , that those words ( in the case of a company ) meant any company with a sufficient connection with England and Wales : and that , on the facts of the case , there was a sufficient connection ; and in either case the court accordingly had jurisdiction to entertain the originating application against the bank , and to grant leave under rule 12.12 of the Insolvency Rules 1986 to serve the bank in Jersey ; and ( 3 ) in construing section 238 of the Act of 1986 the judge had erred in failing ( i ) to hold that the bank , even though a Jersey company , was within the class of persons with respect to whom Parliament was to be presumed to be legislating in section 238 ; ( ii ) to give any or any sufficient weight to the mischief which the section was intended to remedy , and/or to the disastrous practical consequences for all insolvencies with any international element if the operation of the section were limited to those within England and Wales at the time of the transaction complained of ; ( iii ) to give any or any sufficient weight to the legislative context of the section and related sections ; and ( iv ) to give any or any sufficient weight to the fact that the transactions dealt with by the sections necessarily had a connection with England and Wales in that they involved a disposition of the property of a person or company the subject of insolvency proceedings before the courts of England and Wales . |
| 7 | Hence it is important for the legislation to spell out the situations and conduct that will be presumed to be anticompetitive , and to provide for the competition policy institution to publish guidelines as to how it proposes to apply the legislation . |
| 8 | The company shall be presumed to be carrying on its business as a going concern . |
| 9 | Over a period of seven months the widow Hoskin was gifted payments totalling £6 : 3s. : 6d. and this must be presumed to be her pension ! |
| 10 | He decided to ring Seymour-Strachey later , about tea-time , when he might be presumed to be in . |
| 11 | The clinical relevance of the risk factors identified by exploratory statistical testing in the present study should be confirmed in future , prospective studies of appropriate size but factors which were found not to be associated with slow healing can be presumed to be clinically unimportant . |
| 12 | ( c ) Construction of partnership agreements The following general rules apply : ( 1 ) The agreement will not be presumed to be exhaustive so as to disallow evidence of actual practices of the partnership said to be inconsistent with the written terms or alleged to indicate how those terms should be construed . |
| 13 | Thus while generally speaking all terms listed can be presumed to be unfair , this presumption may be contested by a seller who uses this type of term in specific situations . |
| 14 | The following persons will be presumed to be acting in concert with other persons in the same category : |
| 15 | ( 4 ) Standstill agreements ( see para 1.2 above ) may cause the parties to them to be presumed to be acting in concert and the Panel should be consulted in cases of doubt . |
| 16 | The definition of associate contained in the Code ( see para 1.2 above ) commences with a general description and then provides a list of persons who will normally be presumed to be associates . |