Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] hold to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | These buckets were held to be of merchantable quality ( but see paragraph 7–22 below ) . |
| 3 | Association of First Division Civil Servants ( D.C. , 1988 ) the delegation of certain functions under the Prosecution of Offences Act to non-lawyers was held to be unlawful . |
| 4 | The plaintiff individual workers were held to be entitled to assert their right to transfer . |
| 5 | But breaches of the injunction continued and the union officials were held to be in contempt , the union being fined £50,000 with sequestration of assets to follow , if needed . |
| 6 | The defence of volenti was held to be inappropriate but the plaintiff 's damages were reduced for his contributory negligence in riding with a drunken driver and failing to wear a seat belt . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Then the division into classes was held to be an impediment and a cause of frustration . |
| 9 | This enquiry found that the airship trials had been unsatisfactory and in their final report they stated that ‘ … no Government department , high official or group of individuals was held to be responsible ’ . |
| 10 | In 1985 regulations were held to be void as having no statutory authority where their purpose was to force able-bodied young people who lived on supplementary benefit to move from one area to another in search of employment . |
| 11 | In the event neither the manager nor the owners were held to be in breach of duty . |
| 12 | The profits of a Hong Kong company which granted fixed fee sub-licences of video films to overseas customers were held to be ‘ arising in ’ and ‘ derived from ’ Hong Kong by the Privy Council in Commissioner of Inland Revenue v HK-TVB International Ltd [ 1992 ] STI 745 . |
| 13 | A stall with wheels was held to be a vehicle in this case . |
| 14 | This was at a time when the same gp160 product was being vigorously touted by MicroGeneSys as a prophylactic vaccine candidate ; a time when , as now , being able to mimic as closely as possible the natural viral antigens was held to be important for such a vaccine . |
| 15 | In conclusion the payments were held to be capital . |
| 16 | Certain occupations were held to be unfitting for baptized believers ; magic , idolatry , eroticism , games in the amphitheatre ranked as unsuitable occupations . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ By the Crown Proceedings Act 1947 , the defendants are placed in the same position as the ordinary subjects of the Crown ( see section 21 of the Crown Proceedings Act 1947 ) and I see no reason why they should not in appropriate cases refuse to refund money paid to them voluntarily under a mistake of law , as the revenue authorities were held to be entitled to do in the case of William Whiteley Ltd. v. The King and National Pari-Mutuel Association Ltd. v. The King . |
| 19 | The union of both right and left hemispheres in bilateral symmetry results , ideally , in the perfect man ; the enlightened one , as all Pharaohs were held to be . |
| 20 | In that case the making of a television series by the defendants based on a concept communicated in confidence by the plaintiffs was held to be a breach of confidence . |
| 21 | The fact that one in five of the complaints were held to be breaches of the code shows that the tobacco companies have perhaps been treating the committee and the issue in a cavalier way . |
| 22 | As a result , women were held to be psychologically unstable . |
| 23 | The economic benefits were held to be significant . |
| 24 | Health for women was held to be synonymous with healthy motherhood . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , among the middle class , there were few institutions so revered as the schools , and their influence in clubs was held to be of great consequence as reformers regularly called for public-school men to come forward to work in the clubs . |
| 26 | A good illustration of ‘ intended ’ is found in the case of Childs v Coghlan ( 1968 ) 112 Sol Jo 175 where a 30 ton earth mover which was made for use on construction sites and not roads was held to be a motor vehicle . |
| 27 | Several unions were held to be in contempt , were fined and had their assets sequestrated . |