Example sentences of "were hold [prep] be " in BNC.

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1 Certain occupations were held to be unfitting for baptized believers ; magic , idolatry , eroticism , games in the amphitheatre ranked as unsuitable occupations .
2 Such people were held to be possessed of none of the attributes of pure intellect , the cultivation of which was the purpose of education .
3 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 .
4 The union of both right and left hemispheres in bilateral symmetry results , ideally , in the perfect man ; the enlightened one , as all Pharaohs were held to be .
5 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 .
6 The profits of a Hong Kong company which granted fixed fee sub-licences of video films to overseas customers were held to be ‘ arising in ’ and ‘ derived from ’ Hong Kong by the Privy Council in Commissioner of Inland Revenue v HK-TVB International Ltd [ 1992 ] STI 745 .
7 Transactions in shares , not necessarily at arm 's length or for cash , and previous agreements with the Inland Revenue with regard to their valuation , were held to be admissible evidence in relation to the valuation of the shares .
8 Even if my assessment of its implications concerning the relative order of emergence of the intentional ingredient and of syntactic structure were held to be incorrect , the mechanism of that evolution might be of independent interest , and be seen as bearing on other problems besides ( especially in developmental psychology and theoretical linguistics ) .
9 Anti-English slanders they were held to be by the genteel Victorian travellers who continued to come to the Pyrenees .
10 ‘ By the Crown Proceedings Act 1947 , the defendants are placed in the same position as the ordinary subjects of the Crown ( see section 21 of the Crown Proceedings Act 1947 ) and I see no reason why they should not in appropriate cases refuse to refund money paid to them voluntarily under a mistake of law , as the revenue authorities were held to be entitled to do in the case of William Whiteley Ltd. v. The King and National Pari-Mutuel Association Ltd. v. The King .
11 The bank were held to be affected by the knowledge of the independent solicitor , Mr. Hallworth , of the undue influence brought upon Mrs. Aboody to sign the particular charge .
12 Nevertheless they were held to be in contempt but , the strike having collapsed , no penalty was imposed .
13 But breaches of the injunction continued and the union officials were held to be in contempt , the union being fined £50,000 with sequestration of assets to follow , if needed .
14 Several unions were held to be in contempt , were fined and had their assets sequestrated .
15 In 1985 regulations were held to be void as having no statutory authority where their purpose was to force able-bodied young people who lived on supplementary benefit to move from one area to another in search of employment .
16 Of particular importance from the Soviet point of view , states of this kind were held to be ‘ objectively anti-imperialist ’ in that they generally opposed the substantial control over their domestic affairs that had traditionally been exercised by the major capitalist powers .
17 For examples of bye-laws which were held to be ultra vires , see Scottish General Transport Co. v. Glasgow Corporation , 1928 S.C .
18 As a result , women were held to be psychologically unstable .
19 This seems to be at variance with John Jones where a number of incidents over a period were held to be duplicitously charged as a single count of affray .
20 It might be ( and indeed I think it would be ) an improvement in our law , if a release or acquittance of the whole debt , on payment of any sum which the creditor might be content to receive by way of accord and satisfaction ( though less than the whole ) , were held to be , generally , binding , though not under seal ; nor should I be unwilling to see equal force given to a prospective agreement , like the present , in writing though not under seal ; but I think it impossible , without refinements which practically alter the sense of the word , to treat such a release or acquittance as supported by any new consideration proceeding from the debtor .
21 In his province , Huy remembered , Surere had tried to impose what he had interpreted as the supporting columns of a decent society : sexual responsibility and even monogamy were held to be the roots of a stable family ; sexual relations between members of that family were restricted to cousins .
22 If the judgment were held to be retrospective in its effect , the potential costs would , as the profession pointed out , have caused major difficulties for many employers .
23 Hoffman LaRoche was praised as ‘ a highly competent organization with a product range of high quality ’ , but its enormous profits , sometimes as high as 60 or 70 per cent on capital employed , were held to be unjustified and the MMC recommended that the price of both Librium and Valium be halved .
24 These buckets were held to be of merchantable quality ( but see paragraph 7–22 below ) .
25 The fact that one in five of the complaints were held to be breaches of the code shows that the tobacco companies have perhaps been treating the committee and the issue in a cavalier way .
26 Lower than expected corporate tax revenues and rising welfare expenditure were held to be accountable for the increased projection .
27 The economic benefits were held to be significant .
28 The plaintiff individual workers were held to be entitled to assert their right to transfer .
29 Random numbers selected by computer for a newspaper competition called " Millionaire of the Month " were held to be protected by copyright in Express Newspapers plc v Liverpool Daily Post & Echo plc [ 1985 ] .
30 In Jones [ 1981 ] Crim LR 119 , minor abrasions and a bruise were held to be actual bodily harm , though the case was thought to be on the margins .
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