Example sentences of "[be] widely [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Tachykinins are a family of biologically active neuropeptides that are widely but selectively distributed in both the central and the peripheral nervous systems , where they may function as neurotransmitters ( 1 ) . |
| 2 | They are condemned as signs of unclear or lazy thinking — and , indeed , when they are overused or inappropriately used ( as in a wall of political hedging erected by a defensive politician ) — they are widely and justifiably attacked . |
| 3 | Current hyper-text systems have been widely and effectively used on relatively small data volumes . |
| 4 | There are two general assumptions which seem to be widely if not universally accepted as self-evident . |
| 5 | In the early days of the ‘ curriculum revolution ’ , when our enthusiasm was matched only by our arrogance , many curriculum workers in Europe , America and Africa seemed to take for granted that , since their new ideas were such very good ones , they would be widely and rapidly accepted by schools . |
| 6 | While , therefore , the efforts of successive reforming governments gradually weaned the common people from their attachment to Catholic views on images and intercession , throughout the Tudor and early Stuart periods all interference from local preachers and magistrates in the folk culture of the lower orders continued to be widely and successfully resisted . |
| 7 | The tax base should be widely and fairly evenly dispersed . |
| 8 | After the ups and downs of critical theory and fashion , the pedagogy of literary linguistics is an area into which only a few intrepid explorers have so far dared to venture , and the results here deserve to be widely and warmly welcomed . |
| 9 | At a time when banks are being widely and often unfairly criticised , their best response lies in the maintenance of the high standards on which their calling has always rested . |
| 10 | By the end of 1957 the possibility of de Gaulle 's return was being widely and favourably discussed by senior members of the civilian and military bureaucracies in Paris . |
| 11 | The government 's view , though , is widely and increasingly disputed . |
| 12 | Drama , inevitably , is more culturally specialized by language , but in many of its other elements of movement and scene it is widely and inherently accessible , as is clear in mime and was very evident in the silent film . |
| 13 | Nurse del Puablo is widely and justly celebrated for her skilled hands , hot thighs and soft lips , her pretty belly , bad ass and good tits . |
| 14 | The apparatus put in its place , of social fund grants and social fund loans , is widely and almost totally discredited . |
| 15 | He was replaced by Clement Attlee , the party 's first public-school educated middle-class leader who was widely but wrongly regarded as a temporary appointment . |
| 16 | From its familiar title it indicates something like a ‘ school ’ , centred on the ideas of one writer , and this is not unreasonable , since in the 1790s there were conscious ‘ Godwinians ’ and Godwin 's best known work , Political Justice , was widely and directly influential . |
| 17 | Moreover it was widely and probably correctly felt that good diplomats were formed by experience rather than by study , by mixing in good society and watching negotiations in progress rather than by poring over documents in archives . |
| 18 | Gaunt showed consistent loyalty to his father and , after 1377 , to his young nephew Richard II , but he lacked the charismatic authority of his father and eldest brother , and he was widely if unfairly blamed for the misfortunes that befell England in the last years of his father 's reign . |