Example sentences of "[art] [adv] held " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were several prominent Anglophobes in Truman 's Administration , like James Byrnes , the Secretary of State , but most of the opposition stemmed from the widely held belief within the American electorate that the United States should guard its lead , if not monopoly , in military and civil uses of atomic energy . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ The effects of reduced capital spending have almost certainly created a backlog of repairs and replacements which still leads to the widely held view ( outside government ) that the fabric of many schools remains poor . ’ |
| 4 | The Report of the Swann Committee in 1985 added weight to the widely held view that in Britain 's culturally and racially pluralistic society the education system has a crucial role to play in promoting racial harmony . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In Chapter 3 , we examined in some detail Pearson 's review of the history of street crime in Britain , and his criticism of the widely held belief that such crime is a unique feature of present-day society . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Editor , — The widely held view that there is an overprovision of acute medical services in inner London — 9 is not shared by orthopaedic surgeons working in the capital , who are unable to provide a satisfactory service for their patients with the resources currently at their disposal . |
| 13 | The widely held view is that traders should not deal on the basis of an information advantage which is unerodable . |
| 14 | And it fortified the widely held misapprehension that an industrial co-operative was of its nature unmanageable . |
| 15 | Their methods are a far cry from the widely held ( and largely inaccurate ) image of anti-poaching units as bunches of trigger-happy paramilitaries . |
| 16 | He has n't bought the widely held idea that a good airing is beneficial for the inner life . |
| 17 | That so much effort has gone into getting general practitioners on board is a tribute to the widely held view within social services that general practitioners are not central to community care , but their capacity for throwing a spanner in the works is considerable . |
| 18 | When Baulig , between the wars , was strongly advocating worldwide eustatic changes of sea level the only possible reasonable explanation , namely deformation of ocean basins , seemed very unlikely in view of the widely held view of the permanency of ocean basins current at that time . |
| 19 | 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 . ’ |
| 20 | The ethnography of the colonial era was grossly distorted by the widely held assumption ( shared by administrators and anthropologists alike ) that all forms of political leadership can be satisfactorily subsumed under a single role stereotype : " the native chief " . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | If that series were up and running today , one of the widely held myths it would have to counter would be the one which holds that our ‘ generous ’ overseas aid means money is flowing from the rich world to the poor . |
| 23 | The allegations , which coincided with the opening in October of a fatal accident inquiry into the Lockerbie air disaster [ see p. 37732 ] , raised questions for the first time about the widely held view that the bombing had been the work of a German-based cell of the PFLP-GC [ see pp. 37897-98 ] . |
| 24 | The fact that he chose not to do so was seen as a tacit admission of the widely held view that the foreign policy successes of President George Bush had made his re-election an inevitability . |
| 25 | Segun Ogundimu , who had earlier withdrawn from the race , voiced the widely held belief that " the moneybags have hijacked the parties … |
| 26 | The ANC said that the Commission 's revelations confirmed that the state had conducted a " vicious campaign of misinformation and propaganda " against the organization since its unbanning in February 1990 , and that they added weight to the widely held belief in the existence of a " third force " of agents provocateurs linked to the SADF which was engendering township violence . |
| 27 | Although duodenal ulcers ( DU ) rarely form in patients with achlorhydria , the widely held belief that all patients with duodenal ulcer disease secrete excessive amounts of acid is incorrect . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Finally , the authors advance the widely held view that thrombosis contributes not to the initiation of the process but to its progression . |
| 30 | In a rip-and-tear piece , the newsletter dismisses as canards all the fondly held notions about RISC and makes an item-by-item case that RISC as faster , cheaper and easier to design is all illusion . |