Example sentences of "[was/were] widely hold that " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the early 1940s and 1950s , the belief was widely held that a combination of government intervention — in the form of town planning , housing and health programmes , and the provision of social security — and permanent male full employment , together with an increase in real wages , would reduce suffering due to poverty to manageable proportions . |
| 2 | At the time it was widely held that the early parts of the visual system acted like a closed-circuit television , with the eye acting as the camera and the visual cortex acting as the TV monitor . |
| 3 | The time when scruples about extrapolating from studies on animals to humans would have seemed absurd , because it was widely held that basic behavioural processes were common to all species and that the complexity of behaviour was simply a function of the capacity of the organism to learn , is long since past . |
| 4 | It was widely held that the Koreans would not be ready for independence when the war ended : memories of the closing phase of the Yi dynasty did not inspire confidence in Korean ability for effective government and the era of Japanese dominance had been so repressive as to necessitate a period of readjustment . |
| 5 | A year ago when he resigned as chairman , it was widely held that he had been pushed and that Peter Moores was about to mount another bid for the post himself . |