Example sentences of "[verb] been widely [vb pp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Dutch national environmental policy [ NEPP — see ED 37\38 ] has been widely praised for its ambitious approach to reducing internal polluting emissions , and contrasted favourably with the relative inaction of Britain and the US . |
| 2 | The United Nations has been widely criticised for not reacting fast enough to the crisis in Somalia . |
| 3 | The term ‘ Personnel Management ’ has been widely used for 50 to 60 years to describe a range of activities , a body o& knowledge and a set of skills associated with the recruitment , administration and development of staff . |
| 4 | * This has been widely used for car windscreens and , in a much more sophisticated form , is being developed for serious engineering in America . |
| 5 | No single measure of public expenditure has met with universal agreement , and even when one has been widely used for some time , it can be subject to change for a variety of reasons . |
| 6 | Although plastic pipe has been widely used for wastes and drains , until recently it has not been suitable for hot water . |
| 7 | They said the part was not on the Boeing checklist , even though it has been widely blamed for the crash , which killed at least 43 people . |
| 8 | Mr Delors has been widely blamed for causing the latest crisis . |
| 9 | ‘ Authoring Systems'--computer systems which allow a non-programmer ‘ author ’ to create a program automatically--have been widely used for industrial training software and offer unrivalled productivity . |
| 10 | On Dec. 3 Helmut Haussmann resigned as ( FDP ) Economics Minister , having been widely criticized for failing to give a lead on the economic aspects of unification . |
| 11 | The spokesman , citing information received from Israel , said the PLO did not want Israel to look good in the world 's eyes for taking the refugees in , especially after having been widely criticised for recently expelling 400 Palestinians into a no man 's land in Lebanon . |
| 12 | Judge McKinnon had been widely criticized for comments made during his hearing of a case of inciting racial hatred . |
| 13 | An unexpected retention in the Cabinet was Foreign Minister Carlos Iturralde Ballivián who had been widely criticized for his conduct of diplomacy within the Organization of American States ( OAS ) , for the handling of border disputes with Chile and for his failure to secure Bolivian membership of the Mercosur common market with Argentina , Brazil , Paraguay and Uruguay [ see p. 38096 ] . |
| 14 | He had been widely criticised for his handling of the Birmingham Six appeal in 1988 and has seen a number of earlier convictions overturned as police evidence was discredited in the Appeal Court . |
| 15 | Strike action on the coalfields was the major catalyst for the 1926 General Strike , and the miners have been widely perceived for several decades as at the forefront of trade union militancy in the United Kingdom . |
| 16 | They have been widely used for over a hundred and fifty years . |
| 17 | Although open tipped tubes and intraluminal strain gauges have been widely used for the measurement of contractile activity in the colon , it has been argued on theoretical grounds that they detect only lumen occluding contractions , and therefore underestimate the incidence of contractile activity . |
| 18 | The Bush Administration has declared a ban on the import of fish caught with drift-nets , which have been widely blamed for killing dolphins , whales and seabirds . |