Example sentences of "[pron] [be] hold 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 | It was held that that provision was sufficient to make time of the essence of the time limit for the landlord 's application . |
| 5 | Gulliver , it was held that any profit made by a director as a result of the misuse of confidential information , which he had obtained by virtue of his position as an insider , was liable to account for that profit to the company . |
| 6 | Thus in Cointat v. Myham ( 1913 C.A. ) where the plaintiff bought bad meat in the Central London Meat Market , it was held that any warranty as to the fitness or quality of the meat was excluded , because there was an established custom of the market to that effect . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It was held that this instruction was inadequate to prevent the commission of the offence ( under section 1 ) . |
| 9 | This was taken one step further in Stadium Finance v. Robbins where it was held that this requirement was not complied with . |
| 10 | Although claims in negligence for purely financial loss do not generally succeed , it was held that this claim by the owner against the nominated sub-contractor could succeed in negligence ( i.e. even though there was no contract between the owner and sub-contractor ) . |
| 11 | It was held that this claim was allowable . |
| 12 | It was held that this loss should be recoverable from the shipowners because they should reasonably have contemplated that the delay would have resulted in a loss . |
| 13 | On an appeal to the Court of Appeal [ 1992 ] Ch. 342 it was held that this statement should be produced subject to certain names and passages being omitted . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | Raym. 742 in which it was held that indebitatus assumpsit lay for money paid under the sentence of a court which had no jurisdiction . |