Example sentences of "be widely [vb pp] to be [art] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 The time may well arrive — indeed , that process is now under way — when the notion of the supremacy of the institutions of the Community and the primacy of Community law have become so firmly established that they are widely acknowledged to be a feature of the United Kingdom 's constitutional landscape .
2 Quasars are widely believed to be the cores of young galaxies .
3 The Dutch are widely expected to be the first to try it .
4 His unpublished logarithmical tables were widely held to be a great advance on those of Henry Briggs [ q.v . ] .
5 This neglect is widely perceived to be a major unresolved problem .
6 It is a fishing port of sufficient importance to justify the laying of a single track railway to it from Fort William , this passing through scenery of such exquisite beauty that it is widely acknowledged to be the most delightful railway in Britain .
7 There , 50 or so textile mills produce what is widely acknowledged to be the finest wool cloth in the world .
8 The sacristy , reached after the second altar on the right , is widely believed to be the most beautiful in Milan because of the carved cupboards , the work of Giovanni Taurino , a master carver who was also responsible for the confessionals which he completed in 1596 .
9 Nevertheless it is widely believed to be the finest of all the remaining gates of the Spanish walls .
10 Various scientists have pioneered contact lens research but a sketch by Leonardo da Vinci is widely believed to be the earliest known reference to the principle of a contact lens ( Fig. 3 ) .
11 The grandson , who lives in Germany , is widely believed to be the driving force behind the court case .
12 The next stage is the 586 , which is widely believed to be the P5 processor which Intel has pre-announced .
13 In the past it has taken great efforts by the Merseyside and Greater Manchester police to keep supporters apart in what is widely thought to be the most intense antagonism in the League .
14 THE recent rise in global-mean surface air temperature is widely thought to be the result of increasing atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases , but there are discrepancies between the predicted response of the atmosphere to this radiative forcing and the observed temperature changes .
15 The next step in that process is widely expected to be the sale next week of Cockburn 's of Leith , a wine merchant subsidiary .
16 Comet IRAS-Araki-Alcock is widely claimed to be the first comet discovered by an orbiting observatory — the Infrared Astronomical Satellite , IRAS .
17 DEC is widely held to be the largest foreign computer company in the country , although IBM Corp 's turnover is unknown .
18 The first edition of Acid Earth is widely held to be the most comprehensive and effective popular book on the subject .
19 Because it makes public that which should stay hidden , pornography is widely considered to be a form of sexual propaganda .
20 AT 30 , Daldry is widely considered to be an inspired choice as the artistic director-designate of the Royal Court , London 's embattled home of new writing .
21 The regulation of these factors is widely considered to be the way in which the small intestine adapts to nutritional demands .
22 The G M B is widely hailed to be the most progressive British trade union and is regarded as a key opinion former of all matters of industrial and economic and social policies .
23 The first step in the modernization of TDC was to appoint someone to improve what was widely acknowledged to be an unacceptable situation .
24 Even so , to proclaim so dogmatically a single-figure norm ( instead of something attainable such as 10 per cent ) was widely perceived to be a mistake .
25 Prior to announcing his candidacy Bush had on Feb. 6 unveiled a health care package which was designed to overhaul the US health system and to win back the initiative on what was widely perceived to be an important electoral issue .
26 Shaikh Saad urged Kuwaitis to overcome their political differences and promised , in what was widely believed to be a reference to the restoration of the 1962 constitution , that " the people of Kuwait can only be rewarded for their trust and loyalty by further trust " .
27 The Sultan 's endorsement of traditional Moslem values was widely believed to be a response to an increase in social problems , especially unemployment which increased from 3.6 per cent in 1988 to 6 per cent in 1989 .
28 The Commission was widely believed to be the only hope of reversing the Ostflucht and was allocated vast sums of money by the Prussian government .
29 As one of Japan 's most senior political figures , prior to becoming ill Abe was widely believed to be the most likely successor to Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu upon the expiry of his current term in October .
30 The site of acetylation of 5-ASA was widely assumed to be the liver , but it has recently been shown that the human colonic epithelial cell is capable of acetylating 5-ASA , and that N-acetyltransferase activity is present in the cytosol .
  Next page