Example sentences of "[be] held to [be] an [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The way of life argument was often used against closure since schools were held to be an important aspect of local life since the loss of the teacher and the school building seemed like a sentence of death for the community .
2 First , the Common Good' is held to be an illusory concept , which in practice is rarely used to refer to any aim that can fairly be called ‘ common ’ and which might not even refer to a good' at all ; pursuit of ‘ the Common Good ’ is therefore not useful as an identifying objective of democracy , and Schumpeter prefers to identify democracy not by its objectives but as a method .
3 Thinking is held to be an effective activity which involves mental ‘ work ’ .
4 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 .
5 The covenant was held to be an unreasonable restraint of trade .
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