Example sentences of "hold [pers pn] to be " in BNC.

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1 According to the 1929 Encyclopaedia Britannica , one theory of consciousness holds it to be inherent in every atom of the body .
2 ‘ Development ’ may appear in any one writer 's successful novels ; in successful stories , I hold it to be a myth . ’
3 Some of them try to dissociate themselves from their group and ‘ fondly imagine ’ their identity to be ‘ different from what others hold it to be ’ .
4 " Thus in the case of two drops of water " he says — " we can abstract altogether from all internal difference ( of quality and quantity ) , and the mere fact that they have been intuited simultaneously in different spatial positions is sufficient justification for holding them to be numerically different .
5 Either the directive or the reasons for holding it to be binding should be counted but not both .
6 Section 18 could be interpreted as holding it to be illegal to wound or cause grievous bodily harm to the accused himself , provided the ulterior intent is satisfied .
7 Scepticism and an attitude of indifference to the prospect of final extinction have proved , as a matter of practical experience , no adequate substitute for the doctrine of immortality , however illusory one may hold it to be .
8 Even if the Treaty had been signed , the Court would hold it to be unreviewable .
9 Where the difficulty is one of applying the provision rather than a conceptual uncertainty the court will not hold it to be void ( Brown v Gould ) ; and a provision in a lease will not be uncertain if it can be made certain .
10 In Shell UK v Lostock Garage Ltd [ 1976 ] 1 WLR 1187 Lord Denning MR explained what he thought was meant by the proposition that reasonableness is to be considered at the time when the contract is made : If the terms impose a restraint which is unreasonable in the sense that it may work unfairly in circumstances which may reasonably be anticipated , the courts will refuse to enforce the restraint : but it will not hold it to be unenforceable simply because it might work unfairly in certain exceptional circumstances outside the reasonable expectation of the parties at the time of making the agreement .
11 In review proceedings , on the other hand , the court 's basic power in relation to an illegal decision is to quash it , that is , to hold it to be invalid .
12 It was then contended that because the name , the signature as the judge had held it to be , had been written at the top of the document before the dispositive contents had been written , it could not have been intended ‘ to give effect to ’ the dispositive contents .
13 v. McAlpine , where vibrations from pile-driving caused structural damage to a large hotel on adjoining land , Astbury J. held it to be a bad plea that the vibrations had this effect only because the hotel was so old as to be abnormally unstable ; but he found also that the evidence did not establish that it was in such a condition .
14 Certainly it was Bernard 's initial belief , in the early days of our marriage , that contraception was a sin : Papal authority held it to be so , and Bernard 's allegiance was to the Pope .
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