Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb mod] [be] hold to " in BNC.
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1 | Although a court will generally strive to resolve uncertainties and ambiguities so as to give effect to a commercial contract wherever possible ( especially where the agreement is already partly executed ) , uncertainty or ambiguity may lead a court to conclude that the term is too uncertain to be enforceable , and in extreme cases the whole contract may be held to be void . |
2 | Distinctions between errors within and errors going to jurisdiction should be discarded ; any error of law should be held to be jurisdictional if the case depended upon it . |
3 | This is put forward as an alternative basis on which the transfer should be held to be void . |
4 | A ‘ steersman ’ in a towed vehicle will be held to be ‘ driving ’ if the extent and degree of control could be said to correctly describe ‘ driving ’ ( R v MacDonagh , [ 1974 ] RTR 372 and McQuaid v Anderton , [ 1980 ] 3 All ER 540 ) . |
5 | The pupils who do complain usually retract their allegations long before they get to the state where the teacher might be held to account . |
6 | In the ultimate resort also , the association of a constituency must be held to be the proper exponent of its wishes . " |
7 | For example , the two competing public interests in employment cases are : ( a ) a person should be held to his promise ; and ( b ) every person should be free to exercise his skill and experience to the best advantage of himself and of those who may want to employ him ( see Lord Atkinson in Morris ( Herbert ) v Saxelby [ 1916 ] 1 AC 688 ) . |
8 | Some clauses would need to be printed in red ink with a red hand pointing to it before the notice could be held to sufficient . |
9 | There was no reason to ignore the general presumption that parties who agree to an arbitration clause should be held to their bargain . |
10 | The theological justification behind such an approach ( not that I had necessarily thought this out at the time when I was a member of the church ) must surely be that God 's will must be held to be one with what is good , and therefore what Christianity proclaims can not differ from human ethical goods . |
11 | The first is the large difference between the cost of providing some services and the amount of benefit which under the Bill would be held to be received . |
12 | Does the case suggest that the worse the plight of the promisor ( for example , the bigger the penalty clause ) the greater the benefit to him and the more likely it is that performance of the contract will be held to be consideration ? |
13 | ‘ If he has done you such injury this fellow must be held to account . ’ |
14 | In my opinion , a document should be held to be void ( as opposed to voidable ) only when the element of consent to it is totally lacking , that is , more concretely , when the transaction which the document purports to effect is essentially different in substance or in kind from the transaction intended . |
15 | For countries which have ratified the Convention can be held to task if they refuse to allocate resources to deal with these issues domestically . |