Example sentences of "time it [be] widely [verb] that " in BNC.

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1 This time it was widely recognised that a change in policy was necessary if it was to be achieved .
2 At one time it was widely believed that there had been a great rise in the birth-rate ; there was , in fact , a slow rise to the end of the 1861–70 decade , after which the rate began to fall .
3 At the time it was widely believed that Sugar would not be returning to operational flying , as the following press release issued at the time seemed to indicate :
4 At the time it was widely forecast that if the Lords ' experiment was a success the Commons would be forced to follow suit .
5 At the time it was widely held that the early parts of the visual system acted like a closed-circuit television , with the eye acting as the camera and the visual cortex acting as the TV monitor .
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