Example sentences of "[vb mod] [be] hold [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was … contended that … if the person had become philosophically or psychologically or socially female , that person should be held not to be a man for the purposes of ( section 30 , inter alia ) . |
| 2 | The Woolf Inquiry Report proposed that prisoners should be allowed more family visits and should be held closer to home in community prisons . |
| 3 | Similarly , the stamp may obscure other provisions ; if this is the case , they may be held not to be incorporated ( Richardson , Spence & Co v Rowntree [ 1894 ] AC 217 ; Sugar v London Midland and Scottish Railway [ 1941 ] 1 All ER 172 ) . |
| 4 | The document states that Richard Walter Jenkins shall ‘ absolutely renounce and abandon the use of the surname of the parent and shall bear the surname of the adopter and shall be held out to the world and in all respects treated as if he were in fact the child of the adopter ’ . |
| 5 | Its investment methods and specific investment assumptions will be held up to intense public scrutiny . |
| 6 | The hunting , fishing and shooting which Diana detests will be held up to them as badges of manhood . |
| 7 | Another concern of the book is indeed with concepts and with theorizing , and throughout this chapter concepts — from deindustrialization to uneven development to full employment — will be held up to scrutiny . |
| 8 | However , it will presumably be rare that a business can be held not to be acting in the course of business if it sells goods on its standard terms . |
| 9 | The professionals use clapper-boards for this , but sheets of paper with the numbers written in felt-tip pen can be held up to the camera , and they serve just as well . |