Example sentences of "been hold [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Brigadier set down a fat puppy that he had been holding and squelched towards the yard , driving a dozen pullets before him . |
| 2 | She opened a small peacock-blue fan she had been holding and began to fan herself . |
| 3 | But in an earlier case , he said , it had been held that the authority of the stewards of the National Greyhound Racing Club to suspend a trainer 's licence was derived solely from a contract between him and the club and that the stewards were purely a domestic tribunal . |
| 4 | It had been held that we ‘ judge of distance ’ as we do ‘ a conclusion in mathematics … by virtue of geometry and demonstration ’ . |
| 5 | The House of Lords has declined to narrow this requirement by demanding that D recognized the risk , and it has also been held that the dangerousness should be judged on the actual circumstances , ignoring D 's mistaken belief about the facts . |
| 6 | Sexual intercourse is defined as the penetration of the penis into the vagina : ejaculation is not required , and the offence is committed as soon as penetration takes place , although it has been held that the offence continues throughout penetration ( so that if the woman revokes her consent during intercourse and the man fails to withdraw , he commits rape ) . |
| 7 | The limited ‘ defence ’ of mistake about the girl 's age , available to young men under 24 , was explained above , and the reason for creating such a limited ‘ defence ’ is that in general it has been held that the crime does not require any fault element as regards the girl 's age . |
| 8 | But it has been held that although all statements must be reviewed at least once a year , a LEA is not obliged to re-assess a statemented child 's special educational needs before s/he is that age unless the parents so request . |
| 9 | In the context of employment , where the Act refers to dismissal ‘ or other detriment ’ , it has been held that the phrase in quotation marks refers to an act of the same type as dismissal . |
| 10 | In the US it has been held that the Fourth Amendment governs not only the seizure of tangible items , but extends also to the recording of oral statements . |
| 11 | It has for long been held that our modern idea of time derives from that of early Christianity , which in turn can be traced back to that of ancient Israel and Judaism . |
| 12 | It has been held that auditors did not owe a duty of care to creditors of a failed company on which they reported . |
| 13 | It has been held that racist remarks made by an employer to an employee can amount to unlawful discrimination at work ( p 114 ) . |
| 14 | It has been held that while mezzanine platforms erected in a warehouse could be regarded as plant for capital allowance purposes , ancillary lighting could not ( p 119 ) . |
| 15 | It has been held that the court is able to order a sale of mortgaged property against the lender 's wishes even though the mortgage will not be redeemed by the proceeds , if it would be unfair to the borrowers to postpone a sale ( p 100 ) . |
| 16 | It has been held that if a solicitor preparing a will omits a provision the testator intended , it counts as a ‘ clerical error ’ , and that the will can therefore be rectified by the court under the Administration of Justice Act 1982 ( p 100 ) . |
| 17 | It has been held that loans from a close company to participators in that company were ‘ released ’ within the meaning of s 287(1) , TA 1970 where , under an agreement between the company , the participators and a third party , the third party assumed and then settled the debt ( p 104 ) . |
| 18 | It has been held that a gift to a charity of shares in a close company gave rise to a charge to capital transfer tax where the company had an interest in possession in a trust ( p 106 ) . |
| 19 | It has been held that 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 admissible evidence in relation to the valuation of the shares ( p 108 ) . |
| 20 | It has been held that where more than one assessment was raised under different statutory provisions in respect of the same amount then , provided these were clearly alternative assessments , they were not void . |
| 21 | It has been held that payments to a bankrupt 's accountants were not a preference under s 340 of the Insolvency Act 1986 ( p 101 ) . |
| 22 | Directors are required to exercise their powers for the proper purpose , ie for the benefit of the company , and it has been held that the power of allotment is given to the directors to get capital for the company . |
| 23 | It has been held that towing a vehicle is ‘ causing ’ it to be used ( Milstead v Sexton [ 1964 ] Crim LR 474 ) , |
| 24 | It has been held that a signal which was given with a lamp at night and which the driver failed to understand was not sufficient for failing to stop . |
| 25 | It has been held that a person on foot pushing a bicycle when using a zebra pedestrian crossing was a ‘ foot passenger ’ . |
| 26 | Secondly , it has been held that ‘ the pressure may touch off at once some form of words . ’ |
| 27 | It has also been held that non-statutory government advisory panels are subject to judicial review . |
| 28 | So , it has been held that decisions of the City Panel on Takeovers and Mergers , which was set up neither by statute nor contract but simply by informal agreement , are subject to judicial review ; so are decisions of the Advertising Standards Authority and of the Code of Practice Committee of the British Pharmaceutical Industry . |
| 29 | Again , it has been held that the Prison rules are merely ‘ regulatory ’ and that breach of them can not give rise to a cause of action for damages although it may found an application for judicial review . |
| 30 | On the other hand , it has been held that the power to issue passports can be questioned in a court , unless , for example , the particular case involves matters of national security . |