Example sentences of "had held [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Previous decisions had held that a mistake must be based on reasonable grounds if it is to excuse , a doctrine which is illogical for the reason given by Lord Hailsham . |
| 2 | Descartes had held that such a language could be so devised as to ‘ assist men 's judgement , representing matters so clearly that it would be almost impossible to go wrong ’ . |
| 3 | The Court of Appeal had held that s. 6(4) of the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 , permitting discrimination in relation to retirement , operated , and the provision of travel facilities in this way did not amount to unlawful discrimination ( see [ 19791 I WLR 754 ) . |
| 4 | The patient had been removed from her previous general practitioner 's list six months previously and was at the material time on no doctor 's list , and the Crown Court had held that it was not practicable for a doctor who had acquaintance with the patient to make the recommendation . |
| 5 | In the first paragraph , they had held that the case fell within section 6(3) ( a ) because admission would prejudice efficient education . |
| 6 | In proceedings involving another such operator the House of Lords had held that on a proper construction of the relevant legislation there was no liability to pay the duty . |
| 7 | If I had held that the disturbance to residents in those roads was otherwise actionable in nuisance , I should not have acceded to those submissions . |
| 8 | The Court of Appeal had held that there was no trade dispute and so no protection for the trade union officials . |
| 9 | 306 , the Court of Appeal had held that a trade association which by its constitution had power to put the name of a person infringing its rules on a stop list , could instead lawfully ask the person concerned to make a money payment by way of compromise . |
| 10 | In re Polemis [ 1921 ] 3 KB 560 was wrongly decided because it had held that once liability was established , a person was responsible for the direct consequences of his acts even though these were not foreseeable . |
| 11 | The justices left intact a ruling by the 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals , which had held that the US Congress had acted properly when in 1986 it had prohibited individuals from possessing or transferring machine guns . |
| 12 | The Tribunal had held that the offer , involving as it did such dramatic alterations to employees ' contracts , was not reasonable . |
| 13 | Today , however , the Sun must be wishing that it had held that headline in reserve . |