Example sentences of "[been] hold to [be] a " in BNC.

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1 Today people conceive as ‘ real ’ that which , within a dominantly Platonist framework of thought , would have been held to be a particular instance of what could be said most truly to exist .
2 Newspaper articles criticising M.P.s have been held to be a contempt .
3 For instance , Heisenberg 's indeterminacy principle has been held to be a reason to reject the Law of Excluded Middle .
4 Jones & Smith may be inconsistent with Collins , where the accused could have been held to be a trespasser because he exceeded his permission to enter .
5 No useful purpose would be served by attempting to set out here an exhaustive list of items that have been held to be an admissible claim for damages .
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