Example sentences of "a [adv] hold view " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a severe test for him , for it is a widely held view that his talents as a party manager are not matched by his capabilities as a potential Prime Minister . |
| 2 | There is a widely held view among many business experts that selling off a business to a management buy-out team is the easy way out and is not in the best interests of a company 's shareholders . |
| 3 | There is a widely held view that beauty and harmony are a lie , presenting a bourgeois vision of nature and society as fundamentally balanced and ordered . |
| 4 | And if the law of homicide makes no special provision for mercy killings ( see Chapter 7.4(h) below ) or for killings during extreme emotional disturbance , despite a widely held view that such cases ought to be treated as less culpable than ‘ ordinary ’ murders , is there not an argument for a fairly broadly defined qualified defence ? |
| 5 | A widely held view is that animals can be ranked on a scale , a ‘ phylogenetic ’ scale , based on their degree of similarity to humans . |
| 6 | A widely held view is that the USA current account deficit must be corrected but that the correction should produce ‘ a soft landing ’ . |
| 7 | Chamberlain , however , expresses a widely held view that ‘ some prices will probably go back up ’ , in the longer term if not immediately . |
| 8 | There was a widely held view amongst sentencers at the time that these powers were too limited ; while the furtherance of types of punishment not necessitating the deprival of liberty had been a perennial cause of penal reformers . |
| 9 | I agree that there appears to be a widely held view that some limit has to be placed upon the recovery of taxes paid pursuant to an ultra vires demand . |
| 10 | The fact that the sea waybill is not a document of title in some important maritime jurisdictions such as Great Britain removes it , according to a widely held view , from the purview of the Hague Rules and Hague-Visby . |
| 11 | This development came about in response to an increase in the number of child abuse cases being uncovered and the sensitivity of the issues involved , combined with a widely held view that social workers were ill-prepared to deal with complex cases of this kind . |
| 12 | There is a widely held view in Leicestershire , Derbyshire , Nottinghamshire and the east midlands in general that British Rail is riding rough shod over many thousands of people and their elected representatives merely by failing to take the opportunities available . |
| 13 | As he remarks , there has been a widely held view ‘ that , in respect of early Baroque music generally … the proportional signatures … arose from within a system that had simply lapsed into ‘ chaotic confusion ’ so that they can be held to convey no precise or credible information . |
| 14 | My view is and it 's a widely held view within the association and , and the informed clubs is that if we let that situation go on and do nothing about it we will have a decreasing er number of people going and number of people going sailing . |
| 15 | One result of the influence of structuralism and post-structuralism on modern literary theory has been the rejection of the analysis of literary " character " as a valid part of critical practice ; but among readers of drama and theatre-goers at large there is still a widely held view that the playwright 's " characterisation " is a vital part of the dramatic work 's whole . |
| 16 | THERE 'S a generally held view that it 's almost always females who are victims of sexual abuse . |
| 17 | It is a generally held view that contributing to a good pension scheme is the best method of saving . |
| 18 | Prejudice is by definition a strongly held view , often lacking flexibility . |
| 19 | On the other hand , there is a firmly held view on Capitol Hill that America can not take unilateral action in a European theatre . |
| 20 | A commonly held view is that ‘ we 're all of us … moving … into the category of those who do n't know what day it is . ’ |
| 21 | It was a commonly held view in colonial days that contrary opinions expressed in the press would mislead Africans , whom many European administrators looked upon as foolish and excitable . |
| 22 | However , they had been plunged into a welter of activity in which they tried to respond to urgent and practical matters placed before them and it is , therefore , not surprising that a commonly held view was that ‘ the best form of training comes from getting on with the job ’ . |
| 23 | A commonly held view is that he delayed withdrawal for political reasons , until after the presidential elections of December 1965 . |