Example sentences of "hold to be [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus one may ( first stage ) read the meaning of scripture out of it , and then ( second stage ) apply what one holds to be the golden thread to another situation , not considered in the scriptures . |
| 2 | Even if some of them come for what others hold to be a wrong reason , they should not be discouraged or their motives despised . |
| 3 | In this way he saw that Man was truly made in the Image of God : ‘ The primary Imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception , and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM ’ ( Biographia Literaria , xiii ) . |
| 4 | Judging by the critical reaction to certain passages in the third of my recent Reith Lectures this dogma is very widely held to be a self-evident truth . |
| 5 | Both are multisystem granulomatous disorders , and patients commonly present with such similar symptoms that sarcoidosis was once held to be a variant form of tuberculosis . |
| 6 | In Low v. Kincardine Licensing Court , 1974 S.L.T. ( Sh.Ct. ) 54 , it was held to be a relevant ground of appeal that a rule of natural justice that no interested party should have an opportunity to confer with the licensing court outwith the presence of another party to the cause was broken . |
| 7 | His unpublished logarithmical tables were widely held to be a great advance on those of Henry Briggs [ q.v . ] . |
| 8 | Their overall inferior education is held to be a key factor world wide , and has been emphasised by data produced by the World Bank . |
| 9 | This waiver clause was held to be a genuine stipulation pour autrui . |
| 10 | 570 an order deciding a preliminary issue of documentary construction was held to be a final order for the purposes of an appeal under the Supreme Court Act 1981 which does not allow an appeal to the Court of Appeal in England without leave from an interlocutory order . |
| 11 | Shelley and Partners Ltd , Mr Rose 's refusal to accept employment some 60 miles away from his home was held to be a reasonable refusal . |
| 12 | Today people conceive as ‘ real ’ that which , within a dominantly Platonist framework of thought , would have been held to be a particular instance of what could be said most truly to exist . |
| 13 | In Attorney General v Squire , it was held that obnoxious odours from pigs kept by the defendants , and arising from the number of animals , the place in which they were kept , and the food with which they were fed , were such as to create a public nuisance , and in Attorney General v Cole and Son noxious gases created by the defendant carrying on the trade of fat-melter were also held to be a public nuisance despite the fact that the defendant had carried on his trade , in a proper manner and in the same way for 30 years . |
| 14 | The words " but not otherwise " were held to be a sufficient contra-indication to make time of the essence . |
| 15 | In other cases the fact that the rent was to be " conclusively fixed " by the landlord 's trigger notice if the tenant failed to give counter-notice in time was held to be a sufficient indication that time was of the essence ( Mammoth Greeting Cards v Agra [ 1990 ] 2 EGLR 124 ; Barrett Estate Services v David Greig ( Retail ) [ 1991 ] 2 EGLR 123 ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The covenant was held to be an unreasonable restraint of trade . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Thinking is held to be an effective activity which involves mental ‘ work ’ . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Several had considered maths or engineering , or both ; maths was generally dismissed as ‘ too theoretical ’ , while engineering was dismissed as ‘ too applied ’ : physics was held to be the perfect happy medium — applied enough to be ‘ relevant ’ ( a favourite adjective amongst both the science and the arts students ) , but theoretical enough to be stimulating and demanding . |
| 22 | The cause of the accident was held to be the unsafe system of work used by the plaintiff 's employers rather than use of the premises . |
| 23 | CD4+ T cells are normally held to be the principal source of this mediator and the higher proportion of γ-interferon producing cells we found among lamina propria lymphocytes compared with intra epithelial lymphocytes is consistent with the relative numbers of CD4+ T cells in these sites . |
| 24 | It is important to remember that if one act is held to be the sole cause of the damage and that act is one of the plaintiff , then the plaintiff will recover nothing . |
| 25 | Long held to be the leading contemporary poet of Wales , the ideas that have occupied Thomas 's attention throughout his writing career of some forty-six years are represented by fourteen essays chosen by Sandra Anstey . |
| 26 | The fights of women ( held to be the main culprits ) who take their grumbles to outsiders provide an opportunity for these outsiders to bewitch the entire lineage . |
| 27 | As there are many dipterocarps at Sepilok , the rarity of food plants there is held to be the main reason for the greater home range and lower population density compared with P. melalophos at Kuala Lompat : the home range is some 70–84ha compared with 31.5 . |
| 28 | Motor vehicles and coal-fired power stations are held to be the main offenders . |
| 29 | For some the internal growth of firms is held to be the dominant force , with merger activity playing a distinctly secondary role [ Prais , 1976 ; Hart and Clarke , 1980 ] , whilst others hold that the opposite is the case [ Hannah and Kay , 1977 ] . |
| 30 | In the ultimate resort also , the association of a constituency must be held to be the proper exponent of its wishes . " |