Example sentences of "[be] widely held " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many people writing about negative attitudes towards old age suggest that such attitudes are widely held and refer to most old people . |
| 2 | The arguments in defence of individualism discussed in the previous chapter are widely held to defeat holism utterly by demonstrating the reducibility of all theories about social wholes . |
| 3 | If schemas are widely held , it should usually be obvious to the manager what they are — especially , of course , if he or she aimed to establish them in the first place . |
| 4 | It has been widely held that normochromic anaemia is indicative of chronic renal failure , but recent epidemiological evidence supports our findings that anaemia is also commonly present in patients with both ARF and AonCRF , and is , therefore , not a helpful discriminant . |
| 5 | Should Alan Ingram 's verdict on the Budget be widely held , Mr Lamont would do well to prepare himself for that growth to stop dead in its tracks . |
| 6 | Fears of revolution and subversion were widely held in 1880 . |
| 7 | His unpublished logarithmical tables were widely held to be a great advance on those of Henry Briggs [ q.v . ] . |
| 8 | As : When the 11+ tests were widely held , every year girls as a group did better than boys as a group on all three tests , including the one for arithmetic . |
| 9 | Stein 's book may have influenced the initial formulation of Marx 's conception of the proletariat in capitalist society ( Avineri , 1972 , pp. 53–5 ) , but whether that is so or not it did undoubtedly express in a very clear and forceful way ideas which were widely held about the dominant political issues in nineteenth-century European societies ; to such an extent that the social movement came to be largely identified , especially in Germany , with the labour movement . |
| 10 | There were widely held concerns over the funding of the mission , the dispatch of which had been delayed since November 1991 when the leaders of three of the four factions returned to Phnom Penh , the capital . |
| 11 | Weediness is widely held to reside in a set of 13 traits , bearing on such matters as general hardiness , competitiveness , reproductive habits and germination of seed . |
| 12 | Certainly their substance should be accessible to anyone not so far gone in the contemplation of astrology — a science , so it is widely held , on the cogent grounds that its practitioners use computers — homeopathy , aromatherapy , or telekinesis as to be beyond the reach of reason . |
| 13 | Such a benign view of government refereeing of the skies is widely held outside America . |
| 14 | Although there is no evidence that liberation has led to greater female criminality , such a view is widely held and has been strongly expressed in the popular press . |
| 15 | SCP is not eligible for rediscount with the Bank of England but it is attractive to a much wider range of investors than bankers ' acceptances , and it is widely held outside the banking sector by institutional investors such as insurance companies and pension funds . |
| 16 | For example , it is widely held that Egas Moniz was stimulated into developing the now largely abandoned technique of controlling psychological disorders by the use of psychosurgery after hearing about the ‘ beneficial ’ side-effects of frontal lobe removal in chimpanzees . |
| 17 | Glossy dark bronze-green foliage is widely held to be very resistant ; in some places it is , but in others it can look as though a flour sack has burst . |
| 18 | Even in our more ‘ meritocratic ’ society , the notion that members of a certain class are good at ‘ leadership ’ , for example , is widely held , and is scorned only by ‘ professional , sceptics such as sociologists and trade unionists . |
| 19 | DEC is widely held to be the largest foreign computer company in the country , although IBM Corp 's turnover is unknown . |
| 20 | The abbreviation is widely held to stand for ‘ Buy Thermal Underwear . ’ |
| 21 | The quality of recruitment to the Dail is widely held to have deteriorated in recent years for the same reason . |
| 22 | At the same time , the basic insight of Ohmann 's approach continues to have linguistic validity : it is widely held that the basic logical content of a sentence can be represented as a ( set of ) elementary propositions , which , together with their interrelations , constitute its " deep structure " or " semantic representation " . " |
| 23 | This is a view that is widely held by those around the court itself . |
| 24 | The first edition of Acid Earth is widely held to be the most comprehensive and effective popular book on the subject . |
| 25 | It is widely held that the increased basal acid secretion in patients with duodenal ulcer disease is determined by vagal drive rather than circulating gastrin . |
| 26 | This article is relevant where a private company target is widely held and does not fall within art 5 . |
| 27 | The story , published in the USA in 1845 , was reprinted in England as a pamphlet with the title , Mesmerism in Articulo Mortis , and was widely held to be an account of a real experiment . |
| 28 | He was also considered in some quarters to be less than entirely open in his Turf operations : his trainer Tom Coulthwaite had had his licence withdrawn earlier in 1913 over the running of two Ismay horses , though this was widely held to be an injustice . |
| 29 | The view that ‘ because of televising MPs will be more accountable to their voters ’ was widely held , but by a declining proportion — 76% before the experiment and 59% after three months . |
| 30 | 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 . |