Example sentences of "be hold [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the changes , otherwise unapproved pesticides can be transferred t o suitable commercial pesticide stores where they will be held prior to their safe disposal . |
| 2 | Er good , from memory of the previous meeting , there , one of the items I recall at er I was left to do was contact the our Education Officer erm namely Keith er to see if er a one day seminar or a one day school or whatever you 'd like to call it , er could be held prior to the , the ballot . |
| 3 | Although progress on the issue of the local elections had been made in August , it became increasingly clear that opposition demands for them to be held prior to the presidential poll were unrealistic . |
| 4 | Indeed , if transit passage could be held applicable to third parties as a general rule of international law of navigation rights through strategic communication routes , the United States has little to lose by refusal to become a party to the Convention . |
| 5 | There is the view that the party leadership in parliament should lack autonomy and should be held accountable to the party rank and file outside of parliament . |
| 6 | ( 6 ) Any licence transferred under this section shall be held subject to the conditions on which it was originally granted . |
| 7 | Francome is important because the court recognised the possibility that information taken without anyone 's consent , for example by espionage , might be held subject to an obligation of confidence . |
| 8 | The mechanisms by which political elites can be held responsive to majority views in systems of representative government were further explored in Joseph Schumpeter 's Capitalism , Socialism and Democracy ( 1944 ) , which defined democracy as ‘ an institutional arrangement for arriving at political decisions in which individuals acquire the power to decide by means of a competitive struggle for the people 's vote ’ . |
| 9 | Its essence was the system of alternate or multiple parties whereby governments could be held responsible to different sections of the class or classes that had a political voice . |
| 10 | Now he does n't actually make the concession I think it 's consistent of what he says , that he ought to concede that direct democracy might be better at improving the citizens , because after all the citizens have much more to do on in service of the state but his view is that direct democracy has the opposite failure to guardianship , that while it might be better at improving citizens it 's absolutely hopeless in managing the affairs of the state and his reasons for that is that we need experts with experience in order to carry out the affairs of government and although these people ought ultimately to be held responsible to the people , people should n't sit in judgment them in every one of their decisions . |
| 11 | Accountants will be held liable to third parties with whom they have no contractual or fiduciary relationship . |
| 12 | He contended that , as the plaintiffs ' claim against the third defendant is based exclusively on conspiracy and fraud , the third defendant will only be held liable to the plaintiffs if he is found guilty of serious dishonesty . |
| 13 | senior police officers not to be held liable to individual officers for injuries received at hands of riotous crowd . |
| 14 | Congress , this motion urges a change in legislation so that , in the matter of insolvency , the employer be held liable to a much greater degree and indeed be held criminally responsible for actions involving awardance of debt liability . |
| 15 | As willing outcasts from British pop society , The Smiths were holding true to their original purpose ; that , despite the stories of their inflating egos , they were remaining on course … and beautifully aloof . |
| 16 | No multi-disciplinary case conferences were held prior to these children being taken from their homes . |
| 17 | In effect , everything flowed to and from the House of Commons : the civil servants were held responsible to the Commons through their ministers ; the Cabinet was collectively responsible to the Commons ; the monarch only acted on the advice of ministers responsible to the Commons ; and the Lords were always to defer to the legislative views of the Commons . |
| 18 | The proportion of those on remand , that is , being held prior to trial or sentence , was 14.5 per cent in 1979 but in 1988 had grown to 23 per cent , with the average waiting time for trial at the Crown Court also increasing . |
| 19 | The third defendant issued a third party notice against the plaintiffs ' accountant claiming an indemnity or contribution in the event of the third defendant being held liable to the plaintiffs , on the ground that the accountant had negligently failed to warn the plaintiffs of the risks inherent in the defendants ' transactions . |
| 20 | The position is equivalent to that which would exist if the third defendant were claiming contribution by means of a separate action after being held liable to the plaintiffs . |
| 21 | Festivals in his honour are marked by a plethora of flowers , and the lusciously scented frangipani is held sacred to him . |
| 22 | In a liberal democracy government is held accountable to citizens by means of regular free elections , in which citizens choose between competing parties of politicians . |
| 23 | ‘ The third defendant denies the plaintiffs ' claim against him but if contrary to his contentions he is held liable to the plaintiffs , he claims against you to be indemnified against the plaintiffs ' claims and the costs of this action , alternatively contribution to such extent of the plaintiffs ' claims as the court may think fit , on the grounds that ( 1 ) at all material times , you were the accountants retained by and advising the plaintiffs and each of them in respect of the proposed transaction ( and in particular the financial aspects thereof ) in relation to which the said alleged liability of the plaintiffs and each of them to [ B.M.T. ] was incurred ; ( 2 ) in about the period from January to September 1983 , you acted in breach of contract and negligently towards the plaintiffs and each of them in that you failed to advise them properly or at all with regard to the said proposed transaction and the financial aspects thereof and in particular failed to explain the full nature and extent thereof to the plaintiffs and each of them and/or failed to advise the plaintiffs as to the commercial prudence of the same and/or the risks inherent in proceeding with the same and/or failed to warn them not to enter into the same ; ( 3 ) that in so far as any financial information was or may have been communicated by the third defendant he did so in reliance upon information supplied by you . |
| 24 | In poetry , as in life , Layton is held captive to his own Muse , no subject being too sacred nor too delicate especially the previously ‘ taboo ’ ones of violence , cruelty , politics and sex . |
| 25 | 5.2 Miscellaneous It will be no breach of confidentiality to disclose documents on discovery in the course of litigation even if they are held subject to a duty of confidence owed to a third party . |
| 26 | Motion one six three seeks to ensure that no pre-conference delegates ' meetings are held prior to sections , regional and national conferences . |
| 27 | Fairness also appears to have a more substantive role manifesting itself in the prohibition of discrimination , in the case law on estoppel , in the proportionality of the punishment to the offence committed , in cases where delay has been held prejudicial to important rights , and in the development of the idea of legitimate expectations . |
| 28 | It was held prior to the Supreme Court — with its newly-established conservative majority — beginning a consideration of Roe v. Wade , the beleaguered 1973 legal precedent which had established legal abortion as a constitutional right . |
| 29 | The right to registered trade marks grew out of the rules of common law and equity , under which a trader who passed off his goods upon the public as those of another was held liable to damages and an injunction at the suit of the latter . |
| 30 | Here B was held liable to A for conversion . |