Sentence examples for it is commonly held from inspiring English sources

"It is commonly held that where independent activity has ceased, there too history has ceased," he noted.

It is commonly held that Barcelona achieved in four years what it might have taken 40 years to plan and build if it hadn't won the Olympic bid.

It is commonly held that a country as big and confident in its freedoms as the United States could never fully protect itself against terrorists.

While it is commonly held that the United States "purchased" the state from the Spanish, no money was ever paid to Spain.

It is commonly held that the second half of Chabrol's career saw him relax his grip, and few would argue that "Inspector Bellamy," or even more stringent films, like "Merci pour le Chocolat" (2000) and "La Cérémonie" (1995), begins to recapture the tremulous intensity of "Les Bonnes Femmes" (1960) or "Le Boucher" (1970).

WHAT YOU'LL FIND It is commonly held that the younger, more bar-centric area south of the neighborhood in the upper 20s and lower 30s is part of Murray Hill; after all, the Murray Hill Diner sits at 33rd and Lexington, and a bar called the Hill, reportedly backed by reality TV stars, packs them in at Third and 29th.

"It was commonly held," he writes, "that the underground railroad did not operate this far south".

It's commonly held that "the economy, stupid," won Bill Clinton the 1992 election – but was it really the broccoli?

It's commonly held that doughnuts came to America Manhattanano no less — with the Dutch settlers, as olykoek (oily cakes), beginning the nation's love affair with fried dough.

It was commonly held that Charms — the hard-boiled candies that used to come with one of the meals — were harbingers of bad luck.

As the official fringe programme went to press in the spring, the EU referendum was still weeks away, it was not yet certain that Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton would be the US presidential nominees, and it was commonly held that Jeremy Corbyn was unlikely to still be leading the Labour party by the summer.