Example sentences of "was [art] widely [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not because of his background — among Menzies ' credentials was the widely held belief that he was the illegitimate offspring of Edward VII — but because , as Carrington was to slowly learn , the secret services , like most other scions of government and the Establishment , were run by envy , fear and favouritism . |
| 2 | Spanish and Portuguese dominated South America ( leaving a tiny island of Welsh-speakers in Patagonia ) , and Italian was a widely understood lingua franca in the eastern Mediterranean . |
| 3 | With encouragement from the paper 's enlightened sports editor Clifford Makins — ‘ he was a widely read man with respect for The Word , who believed that sports writers who are insular are doubly boring ’ — and a chance opportunity to write a boxing piece , McIlvanney was on his way , armed with Makin 's almost religious guidelines . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , whether correct or not , there was a widely held feeling that hooliganism was a major problem . |
| 5 | By the beginning of the thirteenth century there was a widely held belief within the Church that masses said on behalf of the dead would shorten the length of time a soul spent in purgatory . |
| 6 | This , it seems , was a widely held assumption : ‘ If the yeomanry of England were not , in time of war we should be in shrood case ; for in them standeth the chief defence of England . ’ |
| 7 | There was a widely held view amongst sentencers at the time that these powers were too limited ; while the furtherance of types of punishment not necessitating the deprival of liberty had been a perennial cause of penal reformers . |
| 8 | There was a widely held concern to improve the effectiveness of professionals working together , and to involve parents more fully , so as to create a system in which there is openness , effective communication and negotiated decisions about priorities for young disabled people . |
| 9 | It is also relevant here that the story of the weeping bitch was a widely known one , albeit in moralized versions , as an exemplum , rather than simply as a fabliau . |
| 10 | How could the Soviet system — and after it , the Commonwealth — function if there was no widely understood common language ? |