Example sentences of "[pers pn] is [adv] held that " 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 it should be larger but no agreement on enlarging it seems attainable .
3 It is generally held that the icon has virtually faded after about quarter of a second from stimulus offset .
4 Although sequencing errors may occur as a result of either left or right sided lesions ( Kim , Royer , Bonstelle and Boller , 1980 ) it is generally held that left hemisphere damage more frequently leads to impairment .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 " . "
8 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 .
9 It is often held that this is the prerogative of governments , the economically or politically powerful , the leadership within the churches or simply those who can afford the means .
10 But it is commonly held that Mind and Matter both have existence , separately , one from the other .
11 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 .
12 Thus it is commonly held that services are economic activities whose output is not a physical product .
13 Moreover , recent surveys have suggested that not so many members of these societies are ‘ literate ’ by the standards expected than had previously been assumed : in the UK it is now held that over one million people have an acquaintance with literacy that is insufficient for the demands made on them by this kind of society ( DES , 1980 ) .
14 It is popularly held that juvenile delinquency is on the increase .
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