  The distributions of L(oiii 5007), black hole (BH) mass and L/L(Edd) in two
large samples of type-I and type-II active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are compared
in order to test the suggestion that radiation pressure force is affecting the
gas velocity in the broad line region and hence the BH mass determination. The
samples are drawn from the SDSS archive and are modified to represent the same
parent distribution at 0.1 < z < 0.2. BH masses in type-I sources are
calculated in two different ways, one using a simple virial mass assumption and
the other by taking into account the effect of radiation pressure force on the
gas. The simple virial mass estimate results in good agreement with the
sigma*-based BH mass and L/L(Edd) estimates in type-II sources. In contrast,
there is a clear disagreement in the L/L(Edd) distributions when radiation
pressure-based estimates are used. This indicates that radiation pressure force
is not important in 0.1 < z < 0.2 AGNs with L(5100)=10^{42.8-44.8} erg/s. This
has important implications to the physics of the gas producing the broad
emission lines in AGNs, in particular the existence of extremely large (about
10^24 cm^(-2)) column density clouds.
