Example sentences of "it is widely [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Women , it is widely believed , are turned down for jobs by men who fear that , without warning , they will take time off to have children . |
| 32 | Because the level of transactions was so high ahead of the slump in house prices , it is widely believed that there is a substantial number of homeowners waiting to sell when prices do start to recover . |
| 33 | These messages , it is widely believed , can give information about the future , the remote past or things taking place in distant parts of the world ; at a more down-to-earth level , psychologists and especially psychoanalysts think that analysis of dreams can reveal details of a person 's mental state , and have concocted numerous systems relating objects or events seen in dreams to aspects of the human psyche . |
| 34 | For example , it is widely believed in English-speaking cultures that women are good listeners . |
| 35 | On 21 and 28 March France is holding a general election which , it is widely believed , will oust the present Socialist government . |
| 36 | It is widely believed that the vast luminosity ( up to 10 45 ergs -1 ) arising from a very compact volume ( a light-year or less ) in quasars and Seyfert galaxies are powered by black holes with masses of the order of 10 9 M and ; , and that such black holes should reside in the nuclei of many , perhaps most galaxies as luminous as the Milky Way . |
| 37 | Although it is widely believed that the Spanish encountered an almost pristine landscape in AD 1521 ( refs 1–3 ) , some archival and palaeolimnological studies have suggested that extensive land clearance began before European contact , during the Preclassic to Postclassic periods . |
| 38 | It is widely believed both within TDC and by its critics that the relatively high pay levels established by the reforming directors of the 1950s and 1960s led to applications by , and the recruitment of , men who did not know of or subscribe to the old codes . |
| 39 | Though the official death toll was given as 22 , it is widely believed to have been far higher and Xinjiang television showed footage of troops mutilated by knives , corpses floating in cesspools and burnt-out vehicles . |
| 40 | It is widely believed that local competition and small populations mean that volume sales are not achievable in Scandinavia and the Benelux countries . |
| 41 | It is widely believed , for example , that farmers contaminate watercourses every day in the normal course of their jobs ; but , as an officer from a rural district put it , ‘ I would n't take action if he could n't do anything about it . ’ |
| 42 | It is widely believed that the case presented by the police to the prosecutor and , through him , to court , consists purely of facts or evidence . |
| 43 | Motivated , it is widely believed , by a concern about the illiteracy of the growing electorate ( the franchise had been considerably widened in 1867 ) , but also undoubtedly by a recognition of a need for a better educated work force , Parliament provided that school boards , to set up state-financed schools , could be established where there was a clear educational need and the voluntary schools were insufficient in number . |
| 44 | It is widely believed that people become less productive as they get older . |
| 45 | This belief , though not taught in the Old Testament , was widely held in the Jewish constituency among whom Paul worked : it is widely believed today that if only you try hard and do your best , God will accept you at the last . |
| 46 | It is widely believed in Italy that the moon has a great influence on human beings and on nature . |
| 47 | It is widely believed among the general public that dismissal of a Bank Official is rare and is usually associated with some act of dishonesty . |
| 48 | It is widely believed that the United Kingdom has a rising crime wave , and crime is thought to be more widespread in the United Kingdom than in other western countries . |
| 49 | It is widely believed that the United Kingdom has one of the highest rates of crime , whereas it has one of the lowest in the western world . |
| 50 | It is widely believed that the conservatism of the farm worker and his attachment to traditional styles obliged manufacturers to continue to produce the same wide range of designs as had been produced by local smiths in the pre-industrial period . |
| 51 | At the European level it is widely believed that common standards will allow an expanded internal market to be developed and thus facilitate the economies of scale considered necessary for effective competition against foreign manufacturers . |
| 52 | It is widely believed that the British clothing industry is in a terminal state of decline due to lack of international competitiveness . |
| 53 | It is widely believed that elemental diet is effective in Crohn 's disease by achieving bowel rest . |
| 54 | It is widely believed that Scuderia Italia will merge with Minardi next year . |
| 55 | Last week , by coincidence , the Labour leader a man , it is widely believed went out of his way to be pictured with a particular group of parliamentary candidates . |
| 56 | It is widely believed that senior navy officials trying to live within increasingly stringent Treasury spending limits want to close Rosyth dockyard and the adjacent naval base , and centralise all naval refitting work at Devonport . |
| 57 | It is widely believed that if Labour 's national executive had acted on his report in the mid-1970s about the need to root out Militant Tendency from within the party , then the movement would have been saved all the subsequent turmoil in the 1980s , by which time Militant had gained a grip . |
| 58 | Despite little definite evidence supporting the use of high dose ascorbic acid , it is widely favoured by doctors and patients as healthy , natural , and without appreciable side effects . |
| 59 | It is widely observed that patients with food intolerance often have candidiasis as well — and those whose main problem is Candida often turn out to have food sensitivities . |
| 60 | The one-year course is only to lay down the foundations of good technical training — and it is widely recognised that the course simply pushes the student into the profession with enough practical experience to find his or her feet . |