Example sentences of "[be] widely [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , there have been changes of contrast and changes of detail on time scales from years to days , and for at least 100 years it has been widely realized that we are seeing the tops of richly coloured clouds that cover the entire planet . |
| 2 | It had been widely assumed that he would succeed Sir Robert Scholey when the chairman steps down . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | While it has been widely recognized that both plural and singular references are possible under many circumstances ( Eschenbach , Habel , Herweg & Rehkämper 1989 ; Garrod & Sanford 1982 ) , the present results reveal just how prevalent singulars can be , even given a grammatical grouping cue like and . |
| 6 | It has also been widely observed that the form of intonation is different in different languages ; for example , the intonation of languages such as Swedish , Italian or Hindi is instantly recognisable as being different from that of English . |
| 7 | It has been widely accepted that it is in the interests of individual patients , that psychiatric treatment and services should be provided as near as is reasonably practicable to the patient 's home and community … . |
| 8 | Ever since 1945 it had been widely accepted that there was a need to reform local government to bring greater efficiency and more vigour into the system . |
| 9 | In recent months it had been widely reported that Saw Maung , who had chaired the SLORC since the army assumed power in 1998 , had suffered a mental breakdown . |
| 10 | Although it had been widely reported that he had made a full confession during pre-trial questioning , in court Watanabe maintained that " there is no truth " in the reports that he had paid politicians . |
| 11 | It has been widely reported that in Italy , for example , whole industries operate outside the officially recorded economy . |
| 12 | In recent years it has been widely suggested that our prisons are in a ‘ state of crisis ’ , a situation made worse by inadequate means for monitoring what the prisons are doing , and a lack of formal safeguards against bad practices . |
| 13 | It has been widely held that normochromic anaemia is indicative of chronic renal failure , but recent epidemiological evidence supports our findings that anaemia is also commonly present in patients with both ARF and AonCRF , and is , therefore , not a helpful discriminant . |
| 14 | It had been widely expected that President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali , whose distaste for capital punishment for politically motivated crimes had been well publicized , would commute the death sentences . |
| 15 | In February 1991 he had moved from Palermo to Rome in order to become director-general of penal affairs in the Justice Ministry , and it had been widely expected that he might head a new judicial body which was to be created as part of a fresh anti-Mafia drive . |
| 16 | It will moreover be widely accepted that , in any proper use of these particular examples , this entity can truly be described as French . |
| 17 | It will be widely assumed that the cabinet fears it would be unable to control a judicial inquiry . |
| 18 | It does not seem to be widely realised that words have shape and colour and rhythm as well as meaning . |
| 19 | ( Such a theory involved denying the claims of James 's son , but doubts had been raised as to whether the Queen had really conceived the child , it being widely believed that the baby had been smuggled into the bed-chamber in a warming-pan . ) |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 ’ . |
| 22 | Workplace stress is on the increase , and ironically it 's now being widely recognized that companies own efforts to cut staff and become leaner and fitter , must take part of the blame . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Because the economy is in recession , it is widely assumed that the government will and should cut interest rates . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It is widely assumed that the more efficiently a stock market functions the better off everyone is . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |