Is There Anyway To Create A View Within A Function

Hi, Is there anyway to create a view within a Function? The code is as below. I execute the code between "BEGIN" and "END". SQL Analyzer report error that said

'CREATE VIEW' must be the first statement in a query batch.

I could make the variable constant in SELECT statement, but I'm wondering if there is a way to make CREATE VIEW as part of code piece.

CREATE Function GetCommonFailurs()
AS
BEGIN
IF OBJECT_ID(N'CommonFailures') IS NOT NULL
DROP VIEW CommonFailures
DECLARE @Run1Result as char(4), @Run2Result as char(4);
SET @Run1Result='Fail';
SET @Run2Result='Fail';
CREATE VIEW CommonFailures
AS
SELECT Run1Failures.RunID as Run1ID,
Run2Failures.RunID as Run2ID,
@Run1Result as 'Run1Result',
@Run2Result as 'Run2Result',
Run1Failures.SmartyDOTXMLFilePath as Run1SmartyFilePath,
Run2Failures.SmartyDOTXMLFilePath as Run2SmartyFilePath,
Run1Failures.SDET as SDET,
Run1Failures.CommandLine as CommandLine,
Run1Failures.OutputFilePath as OutputFilePath
FROM Run1Failures
INNER JOIN Run2Failures
ON Run1Failures.TestID = Run2Failures.TestID
END