Example sentences of "they be [adv] widely [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are most widely known as company secretaries ( which is the function of roughly 20 per cent of the UK 's chartered secretaries ) . |
| 2 | Foreign investors are better acquainted with customs and practices in the eurobond market and they are also widely believed to have strong preferences for the anonymity of bearer securities and for the receipt of interest payments without deduction of tax . |
| 3 | Although awarded seven marks apiece — making them weedier than that old stalwart , the creeping thistle — they are not widely viewed as potential threats . |
| 4 | However , they are not widely distributed in gastrointestinal epithelia . |
| 5 | We all agree to the need for more rational use of insecticides than hitherto , especially in agriculture ; yet insecticides to control mosquitoes are normally applied to the inside walls and roofs of buildings so that , unlike agricultural pesticides , they are not widely dispersed over the landscape but confined within houses . |
| 6 | The former had a religious significance for the Ancient Egyptians , but sadly they are no longer found in Egypt , though they are still widely distributed in other parts of Africa and Asia . |
| 7 | Irrespective of the fact that many , perhaps most of these jobs are low paid , dirty ( even the gleaming electronics industry is on the defensive against charges of health and safety problems for its workforce ) and monotonous , they are very widely sought after and they carry high prestige . |
| 8 | One common solution to this problem , which avoids the politically undesirable alternative of imposing or reimposing fees , is to rely on parents to provide equipment , just as they are very widely expected to help in the construction and sometimes the furnishing of schools . |
| 9 | Peppercorns , which are harvested from a vine-like plant some 3½m/12ft high , Piper nigrum , were originally grown in India and south-east Asia , although they are now widely cultivated in other tropical areas such as Madagascar and the West Indies . |
| 10 | They are so widely prescribed you may have taken them yourself . |
| 11 | However , if we take eleven years to the date of writing ( 1978–89 at Table 5.3 ) , we find that , while job losses were concentrated in manufacturing , they were again widely spread within it . |
| 12 | Hedgerows produced berries , fruits , and herbs : the lore concerning these products would have been common knowledge in former times when they were more widely used . |
| 13 | Thereafter they were more widely spaced in both chronology and geography but have been recorded in 1817 – 18 , 1831 ( confined to Cornwall ) , 1847 ( again confined to Cornwall in England , though extensive in Scotland ) and final episodes in Devon in 1854 and 1867 . |
| 14 | It was accepted that there had been no deliberate attempt to claim for unauthorised travel , but it was obvious that the regulations had not been publicised effectively , and the section head took steps to ensure that they were more widely circulated to prevent any further occurrences . |
| 15 | They were once widely distributed throughout the North and Baltic Seas , but populations here have rapidly declined as a result of environmental contaminants such as pesticide residues and toxic industrial wastes . |