Example sentences of "held [to-vb] [vb pp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When one of them could no longer come up to the scratch line at the beginning of a round he was held to have lost the match . |
| 2 | By failing to protest against the actions of the organisation itself through its administrative organs , member States may be held to have accepted the amendment of the treaty through practice . |
| 3 | With , generally speaking , fewer scrums , it would be interesting to know in how many matches this season Probyn 's destructive scrummaging could be held to have affected the outcome . |
| 4 | The employer was therefore held to have breached the contract by reducing Mrs Hohne 's pay and status . ) |
| 5 | Thus the F.C.C. was held to have surmounted the first hurdle of entitlement to enter the inquiry , but fell at the second because it had misconstrued the meaning of successor in title . |
| 6 | The former deputy chief of intelligence in the National Guard until his dismissal from the armed forces in 1979 , d'Aubuisson was widely held to have directed the death squads in the late 1970s and early 1980s and to have masterminded the assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero in 1980 [ see p. 30324 ] . |
| 7 | ‘ if it is demonstrated by reference to authority binding on this court , or by reference to clearly established principles of the common law , that the appellants were rightly held to have committed the actus reus of contempt of court , this court can not apply directly the terms of the Convention so as to reach a different conclusion . |