Example sentences of "[is] [adv] hold to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | DEC is widely held to be the largest foreign computer company in the country , although IBM Corp 's turnover is unknown . |
| 3 | The first edition of Acid Earth is widely held to be the most comprehensive and effective popular book on the subject . |
| 4 | Curriculum reform , whether it is centrally determined or based on local or in-school planning , is generally held to be impossible unless it is firmly based on a plan for public examinations . |
| 5 | This exclusion is generally held to be applicable when a criminal prosecution is in prospect . |
| 6 | Bibury , 8 miles north-east of Cirencester , is generally held to be the most attractive of all the Cotswold towns and has a trout farm you can visit . |
| 7 | It is enough to recall that Ricardo 's labour theory of value , on which it depends , is generally held to be fallacious in its assertion that the price of goods or services is solely determined by the amount of socially necessary labour required to produce or provide them , and so ignores the cost of other inputs and the effect of demand . |
| 8 | This is generally held to be wildly optimistic , and in some quarters , an impossible timescale . |
| 9 | It is successful where temperate zone type methods are not , and is generally held to be the most efficient in terms of soil recovery . |
| 10 | Through our misjudgement of their knowledge , metaphor becomes a lie , and we are left with the disturbing conclusion that the truth of a message is something constructed by sender and receiver , and not only as is usually held to be the casea quality of the sender 's intention or the message itself . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | The art of the gold box is traditionally held to be epitomised in the Paris tabatières , but the strength of this collection also lies in those boxes which were produced in peripheral workshops , especially in Germany and Russia . |
| 15 | The rainforest is also held to be useful to us because it will help to mitigate the worst impacts of global warming . |
| 16 | In sport , for example , the professional player is often held to be socially inferior , if at the same time technically superior , to the amateur . |
| 17 | Thus for example it is sometimes held to be of significance that the first appearance of the resurrected Christ is said to have been to a woman . |
| 18 | Since it is a deliberate response to God 's truth , unbelief is definitely held to be responsible . |
| 19 | Robert Rogers comments on what is commonly held to be the widespread use of metaphor among schizophrenics . |
| 20 | On the other hand , if an explanation is given , the creditor may be taken to have assumed a duty of care and to be at risk of liability in damages if the explanation is subsequently held to be inadequate . |