Example sentences of "it [be] held that [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | See also Chief Constable of Grampian v. Aberdeen District Lit. , oil Board , 1979 S.L.T. ( Sh.Ct. ) 2 , where it was held that mere reiteration of the wording of s. 17(1) ( b ) of the Act was insufficient . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In R. W. Cairns Ltd. v. Busby East Church Kirk Session , 1985 S.L.T. 493 , it was held that proper specification is required in the statement of reasons for a decision . |
| 5 | Thus in Barker v Hargreaves [ 1981 ] RTR 197 , it was held that excusable ignorance could be a defence in the case of latent defects under the Trade Description Act 1968 ( TDA ) . |
| 6 | Raym. 742 in which it was held that indebitatus assumpsit lay for money paid under the sentence of a court which had no jurisdiction . |