Example sentences of "it [be] widely [verb] that [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were also admired for their military prowess , it being widely assumed that before the arrival of the British the Masai had been paramount among the tribes of East Africa ; they were ‘ aristocrats and formerly conquered east central Africa ’ . |
| 2 | It is widely believed that as Down 's Syndrome is a specifically identifiable handicap with which babies are born , the possible change in their intellectual abilities will be either small or non-existent . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Not only throughout Britain , but in many parts of Europe and in the New World , it was widely accepted that if a person succeeded in erecting a dwelling on common or waste land between sunset and sunrise and lighting a fire in it he could not lawfully be dispossessed . |
| 5 | It was widely believed that if the individual was allowed to follow his own interests , within the law of the land , then general good would result . |
| 6 | It was widely rumoured that when the party leader , Klement Gottwald , died , in March 1953 , it was from grief at the death of Stalin a few weeks earlier . |
| 7 | It was widely rumoured that if the Sagawa Kyubin affair was to be fully revealed its scope would surpass not only the Kyowa scandal , but also the Recruit affair . |
| 8 | At the time it was widely forecast that if the Lords ' experiment was a success the Commons would be forced to follow suit . |