Example sentences of "[be] [art] widely held " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he remarks , there has been a widely held view ‘ that , in respect of early Baroque music generally … the proportional signatures … arose from within a system that had simply lapsed into ‘ chaotic confusion ’ so that they can be held to convey no precise or credible information . |
| 2 | I shall press on however , for this pamphlet is the best exposition of which I know of what I believe to be a widely held position . |
| 3 | I agree that there appears to be a widely held view that some limit has to be placed upon the recovery of taxes paid pursuant to an ultra vires demand . |
| 4 | My view is and it 's a widely held view within the association and , and the informed clubs is that if we let that situation go on and do nothing about it we will have a decreasing er number of people going and number of people going sailing . |
| 5 | It was a severe test for him , for it is a widely held view that his talents as a party manager are not matched by his capabilities as a potential Prime Minister . |
| 6 | It is a widely held prejudice that the closest boxing gets to Art is that the guy who holds the towels at ringside might just be called that . |
| 7 | There is a widely held view among many business experts that selling off a business to a management buy-out team is the easy way out and is not in the best interests of a company 's shareholders . |
| 8 | There is a widely held view that beauty and harmony are a lie , presenting a bourgeois vision of nature and society as fundamentally balanced and ordered . |
| 9 | It was argued above that it is unacceptable to claim that the mandatory penalty for murder supplies the raison d'être for the qualified defence of provocation : the label ‘ murder ’ should be reserved for the most heinous of killings , and there is a widely held belief that provoked killings are not in this group . |
| 10 | While no one would deny the existence of horrendous acts of violence and criminality in earlier times , it is a widely held belief that western , advanced societies are becoming more and more criminal . |
| 11 | As it made the historic journey from being a charity team for Irish immigrants in Glasgow 's East End in 1888 to being a European Cup winning team in 1967 , there is a widely held myth that the club resents spending money and keeps its funds in the infamous biscuit tin , a closely guarded money chest under the Parkhead bed . |
| 12 | There is a widely held untruth that as long as you do n't copy more than eight bars , you are in the clear . |
| 13 | There is a widely held view in Leicestershire , Derbyshire , Nottinghamshire and the east midlands in general that British Rail is riding rough shod over many thousands of people and their elected representatives merely by failing to take the opportunities available . |
| 14 | Not because of his background — among Menzies ' credentials was the widely held belief that he was the illegitimate offspring of Edward VII — but because , as Carrington was to slowly learn , the secret services , like most other scions of government and the Establishment , were run by envy , fear and favouritism . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , whether correct or not , there was a widely held feeling that hooliganism was a major problem . |
| 16 | By the beginning of the thirteenth century there was a widely held belief within the Church that masses said on behalf of the dead would shorten the length of time a soul spent in purgatory . |
| 17 | This , it seems , was a widely held assumption : ‘ If the yeomanry of England were not , in time of war we should be in shrood case ; for in them standeth the chief defence of England . ’ |
| 18 | There was a widely held view amongst sentencers at the time that these powers were too limited ; while the furtherance of types of punishment not necessitating the deprival of liberty had been a perennial cause of penal reformers . |
| 19 | There was a widely held concern to improve the effectiveness of professionals working together , and to involve parents more fully , so as to create a system in which there is openness , effective communication and negotiated decisions about priorities for young disabled people . |