Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] widely [verb] " 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| 1 | Segun Ogundimu , who had earlier withdrawn from the race , voiced the widely held belief that " the moneybags have hijacked the parties … |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 | Here he rejected the widely accepted ‘ penal theory ’ , according to which Jesus bore on the cross the punishment which God must exact from sinners if he was once more to be gracious to them . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 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 | ‘ Each nation in its natural state , ’ wrote a widely read commentator in the 1740s , ‘ must be considered as the enemy of all others ; or as disposed to be such . ’ |
| 7 | The massive preponderance of peasants up to the end of NEP and beyond also ensured a widely disseminated population . |