Example sentences of "widely assumed " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although there was no confirmation last night , it was being widely assumed that the explosives were Semtex and the discovery part of a pattern of similar finds and explosions in an IRA mainland campaign that has continued for more than a year . |
| 2 | Now , his songs are intended as the real thing , but widely assumed to be some sort of parody . |
| 3 | It is widely assumed that Elders will not bother to hold on to any Scottish shares and its 23.7 per cent stake will be acquired and used as the springboard for a bid . |
| 4 | It will be widely assumed that the cabinet fears it would be unable to control a judicial inquiry . |
| 5 | Because the economy is in recession , it is widely assumed that the government will and should cut interest rates . |
| 6 | It is widely assumed that the general , who has been doing his best to fan the speculation , will try to become prime minister after he leaves the army . |
| 7 | It had been widely assumed that he would succeed Sir Robert Scholey when the chairman steps down . |
| 8 | These days , it is widely assumed that monitoring of firms by close , caring banks is a better way to run things than the arms-length institutional ownership of America and Britain . |
| 9 | It is widely assumed that ‘ real ’ country people are in favour of development as a source of new jobs and housing while the rich commuter is only concerned to protect his equity and a style of living which has never been available to the locals . |
| 10 | When Paul Devereux took over The Ley Hunter in 1976 , it was widely assumed that some form of energy existed at ancient sites , but there had been virtually no research to back these ideas up . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | In other words , if he does n't like what he sees , the eventual succession from Davies to Jenkins would not , as is now widely assumed , be inevitable . |
| 13 | It was widely assumed that motion pictures would be sexually suggestive and probably explicit , the whole tone seemed secular and irresponsible , and few doubted that children and the weak-minded were being pointed towards crime and degeneracy . |
| 14 | It was widely assumed that the pattern of administration in the new NHS hospital would follow that at the County , the voluntary hospital . |
| 15 | Because NMDA channels are permeable to Ca 2+ ( refs 21 , 38 , 39 ) it is widely assumed , but not proven , that permeation through these channels during tetanic stimulation provides the Ca 2+ signal necessary for the induction of LTP . |
| 16 | ( It was widely assumed he was not adjudging the ball to have been thrown ! ) |
| 17 | They mean an easy , phonetic ( or rather phonemic ) system such as alphabetic literacy and they think of a ‘ literate society ’ as one in which such a script is widely assumed in public life , as they claim it was in sixth century Greece . |
| 18 | It is widely assumed that the more efficiently a stock market functions the better off everyone is . |
| 19 | It was widely assumed that China , with her vast size and resources , would be the victor , and that the status quo in East Asia would remain unchanged . |
| 20 | In spite of its rarity in oral language , it is widely assumed to be easy to read , and hence is freely introduced into children 's fiction and other early reading materials . |
| 21 | The Assassins , a Muslim sect founded in the eleventh century , were reputed to reward their devotees with visions of heaven by the use of hashish ( from which they were widely assumed to derive their name ) . |
| 22 | This attitude to non-verbal communication has been encouraged by the popularisation of right-brain left-brain studies and amongst those who sponsor the soft primitivism that I have just referred to it is widely assumed that the verbal capabilities of the left cerebral hemisphere have been over-developed by a culture which puts too much emphasis on linguistic finesse and that the expressive repertoire of the supposedly holistic right hemisphere has been dangerously neglected as a consequence . |
| 23 | Despite Cuvier 's warnings , it was still widely assumed that the vertebrates are collectively more advanced than any invertebrate type . |
| 24 | In the early decades of the century it had been widely assumed that the distinct geographical provinces of the modern world had only come into existence quite recently in geological terms . |
| 25 | It has also been widely assumed that members do not want to involvement in the policy-making process and that they join the party primarily for personal or social reasons . |
| 26 | It was widely assumed that the assailants had mistakenly believed their victims to be of Korean extraction , and that the assault was connected to a black boycott of two Korean-American grocery shops in the Flatbush area of Brooklyn . |
| 27 | The resignation on March 15 of Borisav Jovic , the Serbian representative on the Collective State Presidency who was the President of the Presidency for the year ending May 1991 , was widely assumed to have been inspired by Milosevic . |
| 28 | Wingti 's position was improved by the defection to his government of a further six MPs , but it was widely assumed that some of those not rewarded with Cabinet office were unlikely to remain permanently within the government coalition . |
| 29 | It is widely assumed that restoration of intestinal continuity inevitably results in a better quality of life for the patient , but that is not necessarily the case . |
| 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 . |