Example sentences of "held that [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 In Steinhauser v. City of Biarritz ( Case 197/84 ) [ 1985 ] E.C.R. 1819 , 1827 , para. 16 , the court held that freedom of establishment , as provided for in article 52 of the E.E.C .
2 On Sunday 29 March 1851 a census was taken of the attendance at all religious services held that day .
3 These people held that life in America — even in the wormy Big Apple — was vibrant , exciting and forward-looking .
4 At the time the prevailing view of poverty was that it was primarily due to personal inadequacy , especially laziness and moral turpitude ; a convenient view for the orthodox political doctrines of the time which held that government intervention in either the state or the economy or society was invidious , and , what is more , likely to make matters worse by restricting liberty , constraining the rights of property and , in any event , useless .
5 It had been argued for the defendant that the payments had been made voluntarily to close the transaction , but Lord Reading held that payment under the type of pressure he had described was not so made .
6 In 1972 he was appointed chief executive ( second permanent secretary ) to set up the Property Services Agency at the Department of the Environment and held that position until his appointment as chairman of the Crown Agents for Overseas Governments and Administrations in 1974 , which he held until 1978 .
7 Tsarist Russia before the First World War held that position , earning a third of its foreign exchange from grain sales .
8 All were Superbowlers , but the ‘ Hit Squad ’ edged ahead at the start and held that position ; it was a victory after a tense and close night .
9 Saw how he grasped every last detail of it and held that knowledge tight in his memory .
10 When enforcement was sought in Germany , the Oberlandesgericht Düsseldorf , holding itself required to examine the matter for itself under Article 27(2) of the Brussels Convention , held that service had not been effected in sufficient time to allow the defendant to make a defence .
11 Her mood of derision held that afternoon and evening , when Tommaso came by and stood in the shadow under the balcony of the house opposite , watching the house .
12 The court held that necessity was a defence to the claim in trespass and nuisance .
13 The court held that necessity was a defence to trespass provided there was no negligence on the part of the defendant .
14 The Court held that compliance with the Extradition Treaty ( which specifically included murder as an extradictable offence ) by the United Kingdom in circumstances where the death sentence might be imposed would put that country in breach of the European Convention .
15 The Court held that marriage does not imply consent to fellatio .
16 Second , the court held that marriage as an institution is , by definition , the association of someone of the male sex with someone of the female sex , gender having no relevance .
17 Although it sought to make schools accessible , it also held that attendance at them should be voluntary , that pupils should pay for the instruction they received , that public education should be developed gradually rather than immediately , and that , although schools would still be run by different agencies , societies and private individuals , they should teach the same things and be managed identically .
18 The watchword ‘ utility ’ , natural to men of government , produced exaggerations that ill became distinguished humanists : Jovellanos and his school held that poetry should be socially useful , Campomanes that the sewing-needle was ‘ more profitable ’ than Aristotle .
19 The account of habituation offered in Chapter 2 held that dishabituation would occur after a retention interval when the input failed to match the ( partly forgotten ) representation of the stimulus — when the subject failed to recognize the test stimulus .
20 an allusion to the Utilitarians , followers of Jeremy Bentham ( 1748–1832 ) , who held that self-interest was always the prime motivating force in human nature .
21 In People v. Rosario ( 1961 ) 213 N.Y.S. 2d 448 four members of the Court of Appeals of New York , adopting the view of the United States Supreme Court in Jencks v. United States ( 1957 ) 353 U.S. 657 , ruled that the entire previous statements of prosecution witnesses ought to be shown to defence counsel after the direct examination with a view to his cross-examining those witnesses and attacking their credibility , saying that counsel were best able to decide what use could be made of the statements , whereas three members of the court took a narrower view and , following the line of authority which had hitherto prevailed in New York , held that defence counsel could examine and use only those portions of a statement which , according to the view of the trial judge , contained variances from a witness 's evidence .
22 However , collaboration with Apple in 1986 in the publication of a daily newspaper for the athletes ' village at the Commonwealth Games , held that year in Edinburgh , resulted in the acquisition of several Apple Macintoshes and a laser printer .
23 This case was followed by Cross J in Franchi v Franchi [ 1967 ] RPC 149 where he held that publication of the information in a Belgian patent application was sufficient to cause the plaintiff 's claim to fail .
24 When she risked a glance at him his gaze held that patrician mockery , the scathing expression she remembered from their first meeting .
25 In one case the Divisional Court held that assault was committed where a woman was frightened by the sight of a man looking in through the window of her house , although there seems to have been little suggestion that the man was threatening to apply force either immediately or at all .
26 Criticising the trial judge 's directions to the jury , they cited poor identification evidence against Allen , and held that accomplice evidence given in Willis 's case had caused them great anxiety .
27 Norway , for example , held that north-east Atlantic stocks amounted to 89,000 , compared with the IWC estimate of 55,000 .
28 The cloth was linen , for Mrs Maugham held that plastic table cloths were the last resort of the working classes , and had said so often and at length ; but it was adorned with place mats of plastic .
29 In 1892 McFadyean was appointed principal of the Royal Veterinary College , London , and he held that post until his retirement in 1927 .
30 From Cambridge he was appointed professor of natural philosophy at Anderson 's College , Glasgow ( the nucleus of what later became Strathclyde University ) , and held that post from 1872 to 1880 .
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