Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [adv] held " in BNC.
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| 1 | Discussion of immorality was particularly problematic , given the strongly held belief that to name it and put it into discourse was a dangerous incitement to further acts of depravity . |
| 2 | Segun Ogundimu , who had earlier withdrawn from the race , voiced the widely held belief that " the moneybags have hijacked the parties … |
| 3 | And it fortified the widely held misapprehension that an industrial co-operative was of its nature unmanageable . |
| 4 | He accepts the widely held view that the development of mass-production industry produced a sharp deterioration in the conditions of manual work and led to the emergence of a type of worker who combined a generalised hostility to the prevailing society with a primary preoccupation with militant economic action ; but he suggests that , as technology continues to develop , the increased use of full automation will eliminate many of the deepest sources of resentment about work , and , in so doing , encourage normative integration within the existing social structure of the enterprise . |
| 5 | The management and staff of LASMO Colombia were honoured by the visit , which reinforces the widely held belief within head office and in Bogota that Colombia could well become LASMO 's third core area in the near future . ’ |
| 6 | One was to answer the commonly held feeling abroad that he and many of his countrymen were anti-Semitic . |
| 7 | The conclusions of this study , which were delivered at the end of 1989 , confirmed the widely held view that takeover activity in the Community was operating on a one-way street : while the UK market was open to takeovers , this was not so for the rest of the Community . |
| 8 | It is particularly interesting in the way that it counters the widely held view that Los Alamos was dragging its feet over the development of the Super even after the presidential directive in early 1950 for a crash programme towards producing a hydrogen weapon . |
| 9 | He has n't bought the widely held idea that a good airing is beneficial for the inner life . |
| 10 | The results reported in this article confirm the widely held belief that ICAEW member firms are responsible for the audit of the vast majority of major companies and institutions in the UK . |
| 11 | The British Library 's recent reports , Research Libraries in Transition and The Research Process , the most extensive surveys so far of the view of British academics , confirm the widely held opinion that academic research is being hampered by a decline in the quality of the collections in research libraries . |
| 12 | I read The Second Sex and A Room of One 's Own at the same age , and thought of myself as a feminist , although this had to remain a privately held conviction for several years more . |
| 13 | For instance , at ‘ Pope John Paul ’ the Head of Music expressed the strongly held view that he operates as a practitioner involved in education rather than the transmission of an established body of knowledge . |
| 14 | In his summing-up , Mr Justice Caulfield could not have evinced a more robust hostility to the Official Secrets Act , sharing a widely held belief that it was long out of date and an intolerable interference with freedom of speech , and that it provided a justification for prosecutions ranging from the serious to the grotesquely ridiculous . |
| 15 | Many people might think that a person who causes death whilst using an unlawfully held firearm or explosives ought to be convicted of murder because there is , generally speaking , no excuse for using such dangerous equipment . |
| 16 | The notion that Pretty Polly was simply beaten by a better horse at the distance on the day was well down the list of possible explanations for her defeat , and George Lambton aired the widely held view that jockeyship had proved the decisive factor : Bachelor 's Button ‘ was a sterling good horse , especially at Ascot , but he was not a Persimmon , and if a real good jockey had been on Pretty Polly I think she might just have scrambled home . ’ |
| 17 | Research evidence contradicts the commonly held belief that neonates do not perceive pain . |
| 18 | Elizabeth Gyngell , chairwoman of the Health Services Advisory Committee that drew it up said : ‘ The guidance reflects the widely held view that injuries are largely preventable . ’ |
| 19 | Even though there were many writers before Leapor who had made a similar affirmation , not least Katherine Phillips and Mary Astell , it must be recognized that to make such claims was to dispute a widely held belief , based on Aristotelian physiology , that women were by nature soft and therefore inconstant The best known statement of this view of women is Pope 's ‘ Epistle to a Lady ’ . |
| 20 | It seems at first quite astonishing to learn that neither the inventory in Jacques 's marriage contract nor that made after death provides any evidence that he was a flute-player or maker ; they seem to contradict the generally held view that he was a maker - a view which is supported by an entry in von Uffenbach 's diary which records a visit he paid Jacques in 1715 : ‘ He [ Jacques ] led me into a tidy room and showed me there many beautiful transverse flutes that he himself makes and from which he wishes to gain special profit . ’ |
| 21 | Chamberlain , however , expresses a widely held view that ‘ some prices will probably go back up ’ , in the longer term if not immediately . |
| 22 | Finally , the authors advance the widely held view that thrombosis contributes not to the initiation of the process but to its progression . |
| 23 | In discussing the interpretative paradigm and action rationality , we have seen the importance that a range of authors attach to identifying the commonly held cognitive schemas in an organization . |
| 24 | We will investigate the widely held belief that crime is a working-class phenomenon through an examination of some predominantly middle-class crimes , in particular business or corporate crime . |
| 25 | The care taken over the disposal of the dead indicates a deeply held conviction that , provided the appropriate steps were taken , death could be regarded as a transitional state . |
| 26 | At the same time , the astonishing flowering of science and technology has made it possible to organise and exploit the world and its natural resources on a scale which no earlier civilisation could have imagined ; it has also bred a widely held belief , verging on the mythical or superstitious , that ‘ science is the solution to all our problems ’ . |
| 27 | Unwin 's work mirrored the firmly held decentralist view in town-planning circles ( Warren and Davidge , 1930 ) . |
| 28 | Those who have a strongly held ‘ grand ’ world view , with a convinced belief in God and a set of related moral values , are vulnerable at this point . |
| 29 | a regular glass of beer or sherry to give a high spot to the day as a morale booster , and following a long held habit ( Roberts , 1988 ) ; |
| 30 | Your articles ( NI 169 ) continue to promulgate a frequently held misconception about AIDS . |