Example sentences of "hold to be [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can not go into detail on the issues which members of one of those movements — the environmentalists — hold to be most vital . |
| 2 | Budget maximization is held to be both rational and necessary for survival . |
| 3 | Certainly , to the accountant , there is no reason why those doctors who are high spenders in their prescribing habits , should not be held to be financially accountable for their decisions . |
| 4 | The taxation and social-security systems , for instance , assume that the man is working and the wife is not ; the wife is held to be financially dependent on her husband . |
| 5 | Segmentation based on usage contexts is held to be particularly efficient because it permits product and marketing planning to be based on customer perceptions of what is required of , or desirable in that product . |
| 6 | The distinction between males and females is held to be so fundamental as to be unworthy of comment . |
| 7 | It was thus held to be as authentic an image of the society within which it was produced as the gift , whose authenticity was premised upon its own totalizing ability . |
| 8 | Five shillings ( 2s. less than the lowest amount which , according to Rowntree , could support an individual for a week ) was held to be too low . |
| 9 | As the restriction sought to prevent the defendant from taking employment with a competitor in the general PVC calendering field it was held to be too wide . |
| 10 | This work eventually encountered various great technical difficulties which , it seems , could only be resolved by what most people have regarded as unsatisfactory expedients , and so that the , the system in many ways that he evolved as an answer to this programme has not been commonly held to be entirely satisfactory . |
| 11 | Similar principles were applied in Mannion v Johnston ( 1988 ) STC 758 , heard at the same time , where two separate disposals of less than half the farm land were held to be merely limited changes of scale and not a disposal of part of the business . |
| 12 | Mr. Roth contended that it is inconceivable that a party who has been held to be merely negligent should be required to contribute to the damages payable by a party who has been found guilty of fraud . |
| 13 | In sport , for example , the professional player is often held to be socially inferior , if at the same time technically superior , to the amateur . |
| 14 | Some properties of individuals are nevertheless held to be more significant than others . |
| 15 | It could be believed that God , whatever was understood by God , was equally close to all times and places ; that no particular period , and no particular events , were to be held to be more revelatory of God than others . |
| 16 | The proper modernist artefact is always held to be aesthetically pleasing precisely to the degree to which it exemplifies the adage that form follows function ( Benton and Benton 1975 ) . |
| 17 | Glossy dark bronze-green foliage is widely held to be very resistant ; in some places it is , but in others it can look as though a flour sack has burst . |
| 18 | This is generally held to be wildly optimistic , and in some quarters , an impossible timescale . |
| 19 | As a result , women were held to be psychologically unstable . |
| 20 | One response which can be made to the gap which exists between the world in which Christianity came into being and the present world is to allow what is to be held to be essentially normative for the religion to reside in the past . |
| 21 | Where , however , regulation to forestall the socially damaging or self-destructive tendencies of the system or to rescue the poor is involved , state action is held to be deeply inadequate and seriously counterproductive . |
| 22 | For an instance where the medical expenses claimed were held to be unreasonably high , see Roberts v Roberts ( 1960 ) The Times , 11 March ; for cases where very high medical expenses were held to have been reasonably incurred , see Winkworth v Hubbard [ 1960 ] 1 Lloyd 's Rep 150 and Hamp v Sisters of St Joseph 's Mount Carmel Convent School Bar Library Transcript No 305B of 1973 ( Kemp & Kemp D2-011 and D2-100 ( Sweet & Maxwell ) , The Quantum of Damages , 2 , para 5 – 011 ) . |
| 23 | Even when the author credits the Muscovite government with moderate policies towards the Siberian natives , the motivation for its instructions that they be treated tenderly ( laskovo ) is held to be solely mercenary . |
| 24 | The guidance of logically interrelated principles in the effective integration of human effort was held to be far superior to an understanding of ‘ personalities or politics or a precarious balancing of power between various vested interests ’ ( Urwick 1947 , p. 118 ) . |
| 25 | It would be wrong to treat this case as a decision on the application of section 6. which was clearly not in the court 's contemplation , but it may be permissible to comment that if an offence of this kind is to be held to be sufficiently serious to justify a substantial community service order , the scheme of the Act , with its albeit clumsy attempt to raise the public perception of the severity of community sentences , seems destined to failure . |
| 26 | It will be recalled that , according to this theory , a stimulus is held to be fully effective only when it is able to generate the Al ( primary activation ) state in the node that constitutes its central representation . |
| 27 | If so , Pyro has an action under the Act as personal injuries are covered by the Act ( s. 5(1) ) and none of the defences would appear to be relevant , unless Pyro is held to be contributorily negligent , when his damages would be reduced . |
| 28 | On the other hand , from the point of view of sociological knowledge , even the most certain adequacy on the level of meaning signifies an acceptable causal proposition only to the extent that evidence can be produced that there is a probability … that the action in question really takes the course held to be meaningfully adequate . |
| 29 | Whether ‘ the action in question really takes the course held to be meaningfully adequate ’ depends on assigning a high probability , which in turn depends on appealing to a well-established generalization . |
| 30 | In these transitional years of fluctuating opinion some continued to adopt a passive attitude towards fatalities , in which they sought to trace the hand of God , whilst others favoured active remedies for what they held to be primarily human failings . |