Example sentences of "is held [prep] be [art] " in BNC.

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1 Latent inhibition is held to be a consequence of the formation of associations among these elements .
2 An order or judgment determining that proceedings are at an end because of what is held to be a settlement is reasonably analogous and , adopting the pragmatic approach referred to for instance by Lord Denning M.R. in Salter Rex & Co. v. Ghosh [ 1971 ] 2 Q.B .
3 Their overall inferior education is held to be a key factor world wide , and has been emphasised by data produced by the World Bank .
4 If the third party act is held to be a novus actus interveniens , then the defendant is not liable for any damage occurring after the act .
5 Removal of water through artesian wells is held to be the reason why the tower began going off at an angle soon after building work began in 1174 .
6 Social Integration of Incomers and Shetlanders is held to be the aim , and an achievable aim : achievable especially by dispersal of housing ( DDP : 28 ) .
7 For some the internal growth of firms is held to be the dominant force , with merger activity playing a distinctly secondary role [ Prais , 1976 ; Hart and Clarke , 1980 ] , whilst others hold that the opposite is the case [ Hannah and Kay , 1977 ] .
8 ISAM-XA , an X/Open-compliant resource manager for those wishing to access transaction processing monitors from data held in indexed sequential file systems — despite all the noise , relational still accounts for only 10% of data — is held to be the brightest hope for the future .
9 Television is held to be the voice of France , by the French , and abroad . ’
10 Experience is held to be the foundation for effective pollution control :
11 It is important to remember that if one act is held to be the sole cause of the damage and that act is one of the plaintiff , then the plaintiff will recover nothing .
12 As there are many dipterocarps at Sepilok , the rarity of food plants there is held to be the main reason for the greater home range and lower population density compared with P. melalophos at Kuala Lompat : the home range is some 70–84ha compared with 31.5 .
13 Thinking is held to be an effective activity which involves mental ‘ work ’ .
14 First , the Common Good' is held to be an illusory concept , which in practice is rarely used to refer to any aim that can fairly be called ‘ common ’ and which might not even refer to a good' at all ; pursuit of ‘ the Common Good ’ is therefore not useful as an identifying objective of democracy , and Schumpeter prefers to identify democracy not by its objectives but as a method .
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