Example sentences of "[noun prp] was hold to be " in BNC.
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1 | Ltd. ( 1988 C.A. ) a 20-month-old Fiat was held to be unmerchantable because , unknown to the buyer , it had eight months earlier been totally submerged in water for over 24 hours and had consequently been treated as a ‘ write off ’ by its insurer . |
2 | The next case is Campbell v. Hall , 1 Cowp. 204 in which duty unlawfully exacted on the export of sugar from Grenada was held to be recoverable . |
3 | Although Aurangzeb was held to be bold and valiant , he was capable of great dissimulation and hypocrisy . |
4 | The decision in Bell was held to be of doubtful validity in Maitland Ptr. , 1961 S.L.T. 384 , where a licensing court was directed to hold a special sitting after it had , per incuriam , failed to declare a provisional grant final . |
5 | Volenti was held to be inapplicable as the doctor could not be said to have agreed to the risk . |