Example sentences of "was hold to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , in Doughty ( 1986 ) , the crying of a 17-day-old child was held to be sufficient to fall within the requirement ( even though such an infant is not aware of the significance of what he or she is doing ) , whereas someone who loses self-control after a storm or explosion has destroyed his property would be outside the requirement . |
| 2 | In Birmingham , Alabama , you could be banished from the city for being seen talking to a Communist , which was held to be committing a public nuisance . |
| 3 | This , too , was held to be UnAmerican . |
| 4 | This practice was held to be lawful in an earlier case , in which Lord Justice Woolf referred to ; |
| 5 | Questions spiritual having thus been dealt with , there remained those of a temporal nature , of which a suitable civil list was held to be the most pressing . |
| 6 | It was unthinkable that a Bonaparte , the heir to the throne , should not receive a baptism of fire and the Prince was held to be old enough to face up to this . |
| 7 | There was a much-told tale of her Australian infancy that was held to be prophetic in this respect — about how at the age of three she had , by the sheer force of her will , compelled her uncle Walter ( who was taking her for a walk to the local shops at the time ) to put all the money he had on his person into a charity collecting-box in the shape of a plaster-of-Paris boy cripple ; as a result of which the uncle , too embarrassed to admit to this folly and borrow from his relatives , had run out of petrol on the way back to his sheep station . |
| 8 | Rodrigo was yet but a youth , and the Count was a mighty man in arms , one who gave his voice first in the Cortes , and was held to be the best in the war , and so powerful that he had a thousand friends among the mountains . |
| 9 | In so far as any thought was given to the curriculum , this was held to be a matter for expert ‘ curriculum designers ’ who spoke in a language all their own , and seldom impinged on the consciousness of the public . |
| 10 | This frontal assault on goal , he explained to the Examiner , was held to be a ‘ more deadly , if less spectacular , method ’ than the ‘ senseless policy of running along the lines and centring just in front of the goalmouth , where the odds are nine to one on the defenders ’ . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , among the middle class , there were few institutions so revered as the schools , and their influence in clubs was held to be of great consequence as reformers regularly called for public-school men to come forward to work in the clubs . |
| 12 | The pastry crust was embellished with a tiny figure and the whole thing was held to be representative of Christ in the crib . |
| 13 | The benefit to be assessed on teachers at Malvern College in respect of their children 's education there was held to be the marginal cost to the school of providing the education , less any contribution the teachers made . |
| 14 | This is analogous to the 1970 decision of the House of Lords in Bushell v Faith [ 1970 ] 1 All ER 52 , in which a provision about voting rights , which had the effect of making a special resolution incapable of being passed if a particular shareholder or group of shareholders exercised his or their voting rights against a proposed alteration of articles , was held to be enforceable ; an article in terms that no alteration shall be made without the consent of a particular member would be invalid , as it would come into direct conflict with statute law . |
| 15 | One of the things that surprised me when I first read the New Testament seriously was that it was always talking about a Dark Power in the universe — a mighty evil spirit who was held to be the Power behind death and disease , and sin . |
| 16 | A good illustration of ‘ intended ’ is found in the case of Childs v Coghlan ( 1968 ) 112 Sol Jo 175 where a 30 ton earth mover which was made for use on construction sites and not roads was held to be a motor vehicle . |
| 17 | As it was too large to be put on a lorry to be moved from site to site it had to travel on roads under its own power and was held to be intended to be used on roads . |
| 18 | But see Binks v Department of the Environment ( 1975 ) 119 Sol Jo 304 where a severely damaged car which the owner intended to repair , was held to be a mechanically propelled vehicle . |
| 19 | Harrison v Hill [ 1932 ] SC ( J ) 13 where a road maintained by a farmer , leading from the public road to his farmhouse , was held to be a road , the farmer turned away people who were using it from time to time but it was also used by people having no business at the farm ; |
| 20 | In Bugge v Taylor ( 1940 ) 104 JP 467 the forecourt of a hotel was held to be a road . |
| 21 | A stall with wheels was held to be a vehicle in this case . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | This enquiry found that the airship trials had been unsatisfactory and in their final report they stated that ‘ … no Government department , high official or group of individuals was held to be responsible ’ . |
| 24 | More generally , there was a growing belief over the 1960s and into the 1970s that Britain 's industrial problems could be overcome through more vigorous entrepreneurship , the supply of which was held to be ‘ market-determined ’ . |
| 25 | Against all odds , too , smallholders persisted in trying to grow com , for ploughing and reaping , rather than minding sheep , was held to be a man 's proper work ; the argument that the cornfield was the nursery of archers , who still formed the backbone of English armies , looks like a rationalisation of this instinct . |
| 26 | This was at a time when the same gp160 product was being vigorously touted by MicroGeneSys as a prophylactic vaccine candidate ; a time when , as now , being able to mimic as closely as possible the natural viral antigens was held to be important for such a vaccine . |
| 27 | Philosophy was held to be a ‘ second-order subject ’ concerned only with reason , logic and the clarification of thought . |
| 28 | Discovery to find the identity of a wrongdoer was held to be available against anyone against whom the plaintiff has a cause of action in relation to the same wrong ; someone who has become ‘ mixed up in the affair ’ and incurred any liability to the person wronged must make full disclosure on that point even though the person wronged has no intention of proceeding against him . |
| 29 | In later proceedings for the continuation of the Mareva injunction , it was held to be regular and proper practice for a plaintiff to commence proceedings on the same cause of action in several jurisdictions in order to obtain Mareva or corresponding relief . |
| 30 | This was held to be the case in Mantovani v. |