Example sentences of "it [be] hold that " in BNC.

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1 Much as I sympathise with the plaintiffs , it would , in my opinion , be extending the implications based on the maxim … to an unreasonable extent if it were held that what has been done in this case was a breach of an implied obligation .
2 The arguments for the increasing assumption of public responsibility for matters hitherto considered more appropriate to the private domain were largely won , it being held that private enterprise and voluntary organizations were either inadequate or inefficient in supplying local services .
3 Throughout it is held that professionals and managers are people and it is people who should be brought to mind whenever such terms as professionalism and professionality or management and managerialism are encountered .
4 It does not seem to matter if these are mixed together in the one preparation whereas in classical homoeopathy it is held that remedies should not be mixed .
5 Dollard et al. ( 1969 ) are generally credited with the formulation of the ‘ frustration-aggression hypothesis ’ whereby it is held that the obstruction of goal-oriented behaviour leads necessarily to aggression .
6 Such anthropological theories are linked to the catharsis theory , whereby it is held that through some dramatic experience the individual ( or group ) sheds itself of pent-up , potentially destructive , emotions to emerge cleansed and ready to deal with daily life in a harmonious manner .
7 Thus if it is held that really we are substances ( Descartes ) , then , it would seem , it must also be held that all we can be aware of in perception are modifications of ourselves , which are , at most , the representations in us of modifications of other substances .
8 Classically it is held that the female optimum depends on how size increases fecundity , whereas the male optimum depends on how size increases mating success .
9 To say this is , it should be noted , is to make a theological point : since it is held that God is the creator , so that what is natural , and what is also found to be the case , must accord with what is God 's intention .
10 It is held that the market for corporate control in particular enables shareholders to set strict performance standards on management , not , in the terms of Hirschmann 's much-quoted distinction , through ‘ voice ’ ( through the company 's internal control mechanisms ) , but through ‘ exit ’ ( selling their shares ’ ) .
11 The definition of " new tenant or occupier " is discussed in Chief Constable of Tayside v. Angus District Licensing Board , 1980 S.L.T. ( Sh.Ct. ) 31 where it is held that " new " refers to both tenant and occupier and that at 32 " we are dealing with the removal of the licensee , when he yields up possession to a new tenant or a new occupier/occupant " .
12 See Baljaffray Residents Association v. Milngavie & Bearsden District Council Licensing Board , 1981 S.L.T. ( Sh.Ct. ) 106 where it is held that a provisional grant of a licence is not " in force " until declared final .
13 Secondly , in an exchange like the following ( from Lyons , 1977a : 668 ) : ( 94 ) A : I 've never seen him B : That 's a lie the pronoun that does not seem to be anaphoric ( unless it is held that it refers to the same entity that A 's utterance does , i.e. a proposition or a truth value ) ; nor does it quite seem to be discourse-deictic ( it refers not to the sentence but , perhaps , to the statement made by uttering that sentence ) .
14 Arising from this it is held that if we are to have forms of science and technology which will be human-enhancing and liberating , make products that are ecologically desirable , conserve energy and materials in the long term , and help human beings rather than maim them , then we will require forms of science and technology which differ radically from those which predominate at the moment .
15 ( p944 ) His Lordship specifically rejected the argument that drivability was the sole test of merchantability and overturned the decision at first instance ( [ 1987 ] 2 WLR 353 ) where it is held that the vehicle was merchantable as its defects did not destroy " the workable character " of the machine .
16 It is held that , although he lived until the end of the Second World War , his clericalism and conservatism alone deprived him of his Marshal 's baton .
17 The leading authority was the House of Lords case of Re W ( 1971 ) AC 682 where it was held that when dealing with the question of withholding consent , the test was reasonableness , not culpability or indifference , and although the child 's welfare per se was not the test , it was relevant .
18 In both these cases it was held that the alternative of a manslaughter verdict ought to be left to the jury where the occasion justifies action in self-defence , or to prevent a crime , or to apprehend an offender , but where the defendant acts beyond the necessity of that occasion .
19 In the leading case of Lawrence ( 1981 ) it was held that reckless driving consists of driving which creates an obvious and serious risk of causing physical injury to some other person who might be happening to use the road or of doing substantial damage to property , and that the fault element is that the driver either failed to give any thought to the possibility of such a risk or , having recognized the existence of a risk , went on to take it .
20 In one case it was held that because such disparity would result from the closure by an LEA of the only two single-sex boys ' schools in its area , whilst the authority permitted its two girls ' schools to remain , there was unlawful sex discrimination .
21 The attempt to construct such a right was built upon a number of different grounds , perhaps the most important being the analogy with the Fourth Amendment to the US Constitution which protects people from unreasonable search and seizure , the analogy being drawn presumably because the Fourth Amendment is based upon English common law , particularly Entick v. Carrington , where it was held that as a general rule search warrants may only be issued under the authority of a statute .
22 The court in Malone also held , however , that even if an action in confidence does apply to telephone conversations , in this case the circumstances would be governed by Gartside v. Outram , where it was held that ‘ there is no confidence in the disclosure of an iniquity ’ , observations subsequently explained by Lord Denning as merely an instance of just cause or excuse for breaking a confidence .
23 Such an approach was adopted by the US Supreme Court in the famous case , Mapp v. Ohio , where it was held that to admit evidence obtained by means of an illegal search would make the constitutional guarantees against such arbitrary conduct worthless .
24 In short compass , it was held that someone who by reference to purely biological criteria is undoubtedly of the male sex at birth remains a male , notwithstanding a diagnosis of transsexualism , medical and surgical intervention to alter external sexual characteristics , and adoption of a female role or gender identity .
25 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 .
26 It was held that an offence under that section had been committed where the accumulation emitted offensive odours which interfered with the personal comfort of persons living in the neighbourhood , but did not cause injury to health .
27 In the case of Coventry City Council v Cartwright it was held that under s.92(1) ( c ) an accumulation or deposit of matter was prejudicial to health if it was likely to cause a threat of clinical disease or attract vermin , but did not include visual matter which could cause physical injury to people who walked on it .
28 In N.C.B. v Thorne it was held that the word ‘ nuisance ’ in s.92(1) ( a ) of the Public Health Act 1936 must mean either a public or private nuisance as understood at common law .
29 It was held that the words , ‘ like proceedings shall be had ’ , should be construed to give any person aggrieved the right to apply by way of information and summons for the penal orders available under s.94 of the 1936 Act .
30 It was held that about half this time would serve except in cases of great idleness or stupidity .
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