Example sentences of "[adv] hold to [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some properties of individuals are nevertheless held to be more significant than others . |
| 2 | It was thus held to be as authentic an image of the society within which it was produced as the gift , whose authenticity was premised upon its own totalizing ability . |
| 3 | The Loch Muick approach to Lochnagar , generally held to be both the easiest and prettiest , was the one favoured by most climbers . |
| 4 | This is generally held to be wildly optimistic , and in some quarters , an impossible timescale . |
| 5 | The waterfall is usually held to be slowly flattened out by the erosion of the river so that the new section of the profile occupies successively the positions 1 to 6 ( Fig. 9.10A ) . |
| 6 | The development of normal reading and writing is usually held to be multiply determined and to arise from the mastery of a number of subcomponent skills , such as detailed visual analysis , effective motor control , linguistic skills--ranging form sentence comprehension to phoneme discrimination . |
| 7 | The proper modernist artefact is always held to be aesthetically pleasing precisely to the degree to which it exemplifies the adage that form follows function ( Benton and Benton 1975 ) . |
| 8 | In sport , for example , the professional player is often held to be socially inferior , if at the same time technically superior , to the amateur . |
| 9 | Glossy dark bronze-green foliage is widely held to be very resistant ; in some places it is , but in others it can look as though a flour sack has burst . |
| 10 | Similarly , the course of improvement from infectious illnesses accompanied by fever has been commonly held to be intimately connected with sleeping , so that a fever typically " breaks " during the night , while the temperature reaches a maximal high , and then as it reverts to near-normal the patient falls into a deep restorative sleep . |
| 11 | This work eventually encountered various great technical difficulties which , it seems , could only be resolved by what most people have regarded as unsatisfactory expedients , and so that the , the system in many ways that he evolved as an answer to this programme has not been commonly held to be entirely satisfactory . |