Example sentences of "as [verb] be widely " in BNC.
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| 1 | Far from engineering the union , as has been widely suspected , her grandmother advised her about the difficulties of marrying into the royal family . |
| 2 | If , as has been widely predicted , 400 or even 600dpi printers become available in the near future fonts produced by either bitmap or compiled outline methods are going to be left behind . |
| 3 | As has been widely predicted , he included a £200 million package of job measures designed to take 100,000 long-term unemployed out of the dole queues though community action projects , vocational coursees and business start-up schemes . |
| 4 | ENGLAND may not , as had been widely expected , play all their opening World Cup finals games in Sardinia next year . |
| 5 | As had been widely predicted by criminologists and other commentators , the detention centres with the new harsher regimes were no more successful than detention centres with unmodified regimes in terms of the reconvic-tion rates of their ex-inmates ( Home Office , 1994b ) . |
| 6 | Participants at the Oct. 5 meeting agreed that the violence did not originate in tribal conflict between Xhosa and Zulu , as had been widely reported , but was " orchestrated by certain faceless forces " ( later named by Mandela as state security organs , specifically the National Intelligence Service and the Civil Co-operation Bureau ) . |
| 7 | The overwhelming theme of the convention was the importance of party unity , and even the crucial debate over the future of Quebec failed to prove divisive , as had been widely anticipated . |
| 8 | On Oct. 18 the USA and the Soviet Union jointly issued invitations to a conference to open on Oct. 30 and to be held in Madrid ( not Lausanne , Switzerland , as had been widely believed until then ) . |
| 9 | But it cautioned that this did not constitute an ozone " hole " , similar to that over Antarctica , as had been widely reported . |