Example sentences of "it is [adv] held that [art] " in BNC.

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1 The ‘ broken ’ colours of the Blenheim and tricolour seem to be more popular , and it is generally held that the ‘ whole colours ’ are the more active of the breed .
2 It is generally held that the icon has virtually faded after about quarter of a second from stimulus offset .
3 It is generally held that the glaciations were approximately synchronous in both hemispheres so that the climatic belts of both hemispheres tended to move towards the equator simultaneously .
4 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 " . "
5 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 .
6 Today it is commonly held that the Soviet economy is an albatross — an albatross in the form of heavy military outlays , hard currency imports , and a lengthening backlog of consumer demands .
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