Example sentences of "held to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The world is now full of literary critics , some held to be important , who do nothing else but write literary criticism , and they all work in universities . |
| 2 | Hence , the great divide between music perceived to be ‘ authentic ’ and music held to be ‘ manufactured ’ . |
| 3 | In these transitional years of fluctuating opinion some continued to adopt a passive attitude towards fatalities , in which they sought to trace the hand of God , whilst others favoured active remedies for what they held to be primarily human failings . |
| 4 | Imre Szász , a large , solid-framed man , pointed out to me that in Hungary the Budapest accent was , for a long time , held to be inferior because it had been debased by non-Magyar and , in particular , Jewish elements , whereas the country accents were all perfectly acceptable . |
| 5 | This the court now held to be a valid return , although a general one , and , since it did not disclose on its face any irregularity or wrongful cause , it precluded the intervention of the courts . |
| 6 | These were widely ( though never universally ) held to be demonstrable by appeal either to direct awareness or intuition , or , more often , by indirect argument starting off from ordinary human experience of ourselves and the world around us . |
| 7 | Feuerbach 's position was more consistent : he was a philosopher who did not believe in God but was on his own admission passionately concerned with religion and theology , whose real object he held to be man himself . |
| 8 | It is this concept which ISS held to be fundamental to increasing the commitment and achievement of pupils who now underachieve , especially many working-class pupils . |
| 9 | The fact that the form is exhausted , however , has not prevented those novelists held to be of a satirical bent from making squillions of pounds : Tom Sharpe , Clive James and Keith Waterhouse ( above ) all shift paperbacks like nobody 's business , and good luck to them . |
| 10 | On the other hand , from the point of view of sociological knowledge , even the most certain adequacy on the level of meaning signifies an acceptable causal proposition only to the extent that evidence can be produced that there is a probability … that the action in question really takes the course held to be meaningfully adequate . |
| 11 | Whether ‘ the action in question really takes the course held to be meaningfully adequate ’ depends on assigning a high probability , which in turn depends on appealing to a well-established generalization . |
| 12 | For example , the ( now held to be correct ) notion that prolonged lactation was likely to delay impregnation had a long resonance . |
| 13 | Experience , it is believed , leads to sound judgment , held to be a significant virtue in a field officer , for it is the field man who is the agency 's gatekeeper . |
| 14 | The most versatile stone in his long catalogue was sapphire , which he held to be good for protecting the limbs from injury and the wearer from fraud , as well as for overcoming envy , averting terror , liberating from imprisonment , purifying the eyes , cooling the body and not least for the convenient property of making the wearer beloved of god as well as of men . |
| 15 | Ltd. v. The Irish Land Commission ( Case 182/83 ) [ 1984 ] E.C.R. 3677 , in which the court held to be compatible with article 52 a requirement to reside in Irish territory which was imposed on nationals of other member states , is not relevant . |
| 16 | It must , moreover , be noted that the only requirement which the court held to be justified under the quota system in Ex parte Jaderow Ltd. concerned precisely the operations of the vessels . |
| 17 | Next , in the leading case of Air Canada v. British Columbia , 59 D.L.R. ( 4th ) 161 , the question arose whether money in the form of taxes paid under a statute held to be ultra vires was recoverable . |
| 18 | If the principle does not comprehend such payments , as the majority of the Court of Appeal held to be the case , then there are other situations covered by the provisions which would also be within the ambit of the Woolwich principle . |
| 19 | This principle has been applied , and the money held to be recoverable , in cases where the sanction has amounted to duress of the person of the subject or of his goods . |
| 20 | There is very considerable force in the submission that once a refusal to treatment is expressed and held to be valid and binding on the hospital , as I have found , then that consent or that refusal should continue to prevail and dictate the outcome of this case . |
| 21 | In turn , those values are partly constitutive of the form of life held to be valuable by the adherents of the discipline . |
| 22 | Epaminondas was a Theban general , held to be living proof of all the virtues ; he led a career of principled carnage , and founded the city of Megalopolis . |
| 23 | Yet feminists who made women 's right to enter the public sphere a priority never really addressed the issue of women 's role as wives and mothers , which late nineteenth-century doctors and scientists held to be the chief and necessary constraint on women 's achievements . |
| 24 | Here too they follow Richards , who used the same term to characterize the ‘ bringing in of the opposite , the complementary impulse ’ ( Richards 1967 : 197 ) , which he held to be characteristic of all great poetry . |
| 25 | He could also reduce the solemn to the apparently trivial ( ‘ nothing in this life is wholly serious ’ ) , lending often to his ordinary conversation , as to his poetry , that element of surprise which Elgar Allan Poe held to be an essential ingredient of art itself . |
| 26 | claim for loss of redundancy payment which would have been received if employment had not been terminated because of accident , held to be ‘ naturally and directly ’ arising from the wrong . |
| 27 | In his first policy statement as President , Nujoma on March 21 promised to redress the distortions of the apartheid economy , and appeared to assuage fears of the white minority and potential Western aid donors by rejecting the idea of large-scale nationalization , which SWAPO had for a long time held to be a cornerstone of its Marxist ideology . |
| 28 | During the hearings the government had published , through the high commission , a series of press advertisements relating to the case which Jeyaretnam held to be defamatory . |
| 29 | The Arrangements document suggests that the concepts which will be studied in the Short Courses will be ones which ‘ contribute to beliefs and values held to be fundamental to our society . |
| 30 | The financial crisis which brought down the Labour government caused a rapid increase in the cost of unemployment assistance , an increase which pre-Keynesian economic theory held to be highly undesirable . |