Example sentences of "been held that the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sexual intercourse is defined as the penetration of the penis into the vagina : ejaculation is not required , and the offence is committed as soon as penetration takes place , although it has been held that the offence continues throughout penetration ( so that if the woman revokes her consent during intercourse and the man fails to withdraw , he commits rape ) . |
| 2 | One consequence of the exclusive pursuit of the selfish and self-indulgent ethos of the naked fabliau is that the Shipman 's Tale , unlike the majority of the French fabliaux , contains no concluding moral , ending instead on the selfish prayer : The failure of a moral to appear here is emphasized by the fact that the Host immediately tries to draw a moral from the tale — an appropriately pragmatic one : It could and has been held that the Shipman 's Tale is thereby amoral . |
| 3 | The House of Lords has declined to narrow this requirement by demanding that D recognized the risk , and it has also been held that the dangerousness should be judged on the actual circumstances , ignoring D 's mistaken belief about the facts . |
| 4 | It has been held that the court is able to order a sale of mortgaged property against the lender 's wishes even though the mortgage will not be redeemed by the proceeds , if it would be unfair to the borrowers to postpone a sale ( p 100 ) . |
| 5 | Thus it has been held that the display of goods on the shelves of a self-service shop is not an offer , Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain v. Boots Cash Chemists ( 1952 D.C. ) . |
| 6 | It has been held that the owner of a swarm of bees has no right to follow it onto another man 's land , but this is of no general assistance for , once the bees get onto that land they become again ferae naturae and the property of no one . |
| 7 | The limited ‘ defence ’ of mistake about the girl 's age , available to young men under 24 , was explained above , and the reason for creating such a limited ‘ defence ’ is that in general it has been held that the crime does not require any fault element as regards the girl 's age . |
| 8 | Directors are required to exercise their powers for the proper purpose , ie for the benefit of the company , and it has been held that the power of allotment is given to the directors to get capital for the company . |
| 9 | On the other hand , it has been held that the power to issue passports can be questioned in a court , unless , for example , the particular case involves matters of national security . |
| 10 | It has been held that the term relates to being under the influence of intoxicating liquor , and the offence is not capable of commission where the intoxication is induced by a substance other than alcohol , such as a solvent . |
| 11 | For example , the rule which automatically renders transactions carried out by company directors in breach of the prohibition on self-dealing voidable can be modified , but it has been held that the director must still act in the best interests of the company . |
| 12 | In New South Wales and South Australia , Morgan has been adopted and codified , although in Western Australia and Tasmania , it has been held that the defendant 's belief in consent must be reasonable , and this also seems to be the position in Queensland . |
| 13 | In the context of employment , where the Act refers to dismissal ‘ or other detriment ’ , it has been held that the phrase in quotation marks refers to an act of the same type as dismissal . |
| 14 | Again , it has been held that the Prison rules are merely ‘ regulatory ’ and that breach of them can not give rise to a cause of action for damages although it may found an application for judicial review . |
| 15 | But in an earlier case , he said , it had been held that the authority of the stewards of the National Greyhound Racing Club to suspend a trainer 's licence was derived solely from a contract between him and the club and that the stewards were purely a domestic tribunal . |
| 16 | It has long been held that the writs of mandamus and prohibition will go either to compel the visitor to act if he refused to deal with a matter within his jurisdiction or to prohibit him from dealing with a matter that lies without his jurisdiction . |
| 17 | It has long been held that the writs of mandanus and prohibition will go … |