Example sentences of "[vb past] the [adv] held [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Segun Ogundimu , who had earlier withdrawn from the race , voiced the widely held belief that " the moneybags have hijacked the parties … |
| 2 | And it fortified the widely held misapprehension that an industrial co-operative was of its nature unmanageable . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | Unwin 's work mirrored the firmly held decentralist view in town-planning circles ( Warren and Davidge , 1930 ) . |