Example sentences of "hold [not/n't] to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 203 , the corporation , having for a number of years paid purchase tax on manufactured stationery , erroneously believing it to be due , sought to recover it when it was held not to be chargeable . |
| 2 | The pursuance of damages through car hire schemes was held not to be champertous by the House of Lords in Sanders v Templar ( Times Law Reports , 13 January 1993 ) and an increasing percentage of personal injury claims relating to motor accidents will come through this source in the future . |
| 3 | In such a case an adult might be held liable either for breach of his contract to use proper care or for a wrong independent of the contract ; an infant has been held not to be liable at all . |
| 4 | However , on the facts the plaintiff failed to establish a breach of such duty to take care and E. Lacon & Co. were held not to be liable to the plaintiff . |
| 5 | Where a rating authority had a statutory power , but no duty , to refund rates overpaid by mistake , the House of Lords granted judicial review and ordered repayment where the reasons given by the authority for its refusal to repay were held not to be valid . |
| 6 | ’ William Whiteley Ltd. v. The King ( 1909 ) 101 L.T. 741 is a further case where a claimant was held not to be entitled to recover payments which were not legally due . |
| 7 | On the other hand , where a landlord was entitled to determine a lease for " building sites or planting or other purposes " , he was held not to be entitled to determine it for the purpose of constructing a sports stadium ( Coates v Diment [ 1951 ] 1 All ER 890 ) . |
| 8 | The Act of 1988 should also be held not to be discriminatory . |
| 9 | I am not persuaded that the jurisdiction of the visitor involves such exceptional considerations that this principle should be departed from and that some grounds be accepted and others held not to be available for the purposes of judicial review . |