Example sentences of "been hold [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The logic of this has been held to extend to the situation where the person interposes by advising his friend of his legal rights ; the courts have held that this too amounts to obstruction . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , it was impossible to ignore the fact that the overall percentage of registered electors voting in favour , at 64.51 per cent in Latvia and 64.49 per cent in Estonia , fell short of the two-thirds majority which would have meant victory if the referendums had been held according to the April 1990 USSR legislation on the secession of a republic [ see pp. 37361-62 ] . |
| 3 | So , for example , in disciplinary hearings , natural justice has been held to apply on the ground that , as allegations have been made against a person , justice demands a right to answer these allegations . |
| 4 | The Act has been held to apply to a digging machine used to construct a tunnel ( Bunker v Charles Brand & Son Ltd [ 1969 ] 2 QB 480 ) . |
| 5 | The position has been held to apply to an insurance agent , who was under no duty to hand those notes and coins to the company ( Robertson [ 1977 ] Crim LR 173 ( CA ) ) , and to a person in receipt of housing benefit , who was under no legal obligation to use the money to pay off rent arrears ( DPP v Huskinson [ 1988 ] Crim LR 620 ) , even though that was the purpose for which the accused received the benefit . |
| 6 | No figure can be put on the number of years for which such a procession must have been held to qualify for the exemption ; any figure that is imposed is likely to be arbitrary . |
| 7 | It has long been held to look like a cello , but the elliptical window above the door looks like a beak to me , so that with the round windows above the upper façade looks nothing so much as a chick wearing a Napoleonic hat . |
| 8 | A tow chain has been held not to be a ‘ part ’ ( Jenkins v Deane ( 1933 ) , 103 LJKB 250 ) but a tow bar connecting a vehicle and a trailer together has been held to come within the regulation where the joining was defective ( O'Neill v Brown 119611 1 QB 420 ) , |
| 9 | There does not seem to me to be anything in the policy of the new Act which suggests that in this provision Parliament was intending to give those words a different meaning from those which they had been held to bear under the Act of 1914 . |
| 10 | Similarly , part of a room that projected above ground level into the property conveyed has been held to pass in the conveyance ( Laybourn v Gridley [ 1892 ] 2 Ch 53 ) . |