Example sentences of "widely hold to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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in some quarters to be less than entirely open in his Turf operations : his trainer Tom Coulthwaite had had his licence withdrawn earlier in 1913 over the running of two Ismay horses , though this was widely held to be an injustice . |
| 3 | Why do words receive so much consideration in dispositions widely held to be free of form ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | DEC is widely held to be the largest foreign computer company in the country , although IBM Corp 's turnover is unknown . |
| 6 | But it is certainly intelligible , both as an account of the original motives inspiring such legislation and as the specification of an aim widely held to be worth pursuing , to say that the law is here concerned with the suffering , albeit only of animals , rather than with the immorality of torturing them . |
| 7 | Judging by the critical reaction to certain passages in the third of my recent Reith Lectures this dogma is very widely held to be a self-evident truth . |
| 8 | The consequent adverse publicity was widely held to be damaging to the Labour cause . |
| 9 | His unpublished logarithmical tables were widely held to be a great advance on those of Henry Briggs [ q.v . ] . |
| 10 | The first edition of Acid Earth is widely held to be the most comprehensive and effective popular book on the subject . |
| 11 | This situation was widely held to be responsible for Australia 's slowness in adopting new technology — automation in the motor industry was far less advanced than in western Europe — and for persistently low levels of labour productivity . |
| 12 | In an assertion of civilian authority , the interim government of Prime Minister Anand Panyarachun on Aug. 1 demoted three top military leaders widely held to be responsible for the shooting of pro-democracy demonstrators by the military in May [ see pp. 38894-95 ] . |