Example sentences of "[be] held to [be] [adj] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hoffman LaRoche was praised as ‘ a highly competent organization with a product range of high quality ’ , but its enormous profits , sometimes as high as 60 or 70 per cent on capital employed , were held to be unjustified and the MMC recommended that the price of both Librium and Valium be halved . |
| 2 | His point is a simple enough one : the application of technology is held to be value-free and independent of any human motives : |
| 3 | Again , since truth is held to be individual and also fallible , rulership will be both conditional and also temporary ; because clearly the views as to what is true and therefore proper for government to act upon will change from time to time as opinion fluctuates amongst the body of the people . |
| 4 | Fluctuations about these mean positions are held to be Gaussian and not dependent upon the strain . |
| 5 | Many countries , mainly those in the civil law tradition , have made this declaration , including Belgium , Czechoslovakia , Egypt , France , Germany , Luxembourg , Norway , Portugal , Seychelles and Turkey ( but not Italy ) ; accordingly an attempt to serve process via a United States Vice-Consul in the German Federal Republic has been held to be ineffective and the Netherlands Ministry of External Affairs was held to have acted properly when it refused to accept a document intended for service via the diplomatic channel on a defendant in France . |
| 6 | Thus , in R v Lincoln ( Kesteven ) County Justices , ex p M ( a Minor ) [ 1976 ] 1 All ER 490 , evidence that a father was having incestuous relations with the two older sisters of a child before the court was held to be relevant and admissible . |
| 7 | It was held to be unambiguous and that , in the context , ‘ delivery ’ meant delivery of materials and not delivery of a completed operable system . |
| 8 | In later proceedings for the continuation of the Mareva injunction , it was held to be regular and proper practice for a plaintiff to commence proceedings on the same cause of action in several jurisdictions in order to obtain Mareva or corresponding relief . |
| 9 | The costs agreement was held to be valid and enforceable . |
| 10 | Although Aurangzeb was held to be bold and valiant , he was capable of great dissimulation and hypocrisy . |