Example sentences of "[is] widely [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Because the economy is in recession , it is widely assumed that the government will and should cut interest rates . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It is widely assumed that the more efficiently a stock market functions the better off everyone is . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It is widely assumed that different ICUs can be compared by the ratio of actual mortality to that predicted by the APACHE score . |
| 10 | It is widely assumed that these scoring systems can be used for comparisons . |
| 11 | It is widely assumed that the Bundesbank council will effect a 50 basic points cut in official rates at either the meeting this Thursday or on 1 April . |
| 12 | ‘ Critics have found me narrow , implies that his reputation is already controversial , a truth of which he was justly proud , and it is a provocation aptly calculated to make one read on ; and to claim that the only way to escape misrepresentation is to say nothing implies that something momentous is about to be said , that it is his habit and custom to do so , and that he is widely hated because he does . |
| 13 | Overall , however , the railways are likely to be one of the toughest state sell-offs of them all , for BR has not made a profit for 40 years and is widely perceived as demoralised and run-down . |
| 14 | IT DIDN'T. 1988 is widely perceived as Reading 's nadir , poorly attended and with a woefully average line-up , even by Reading 's by now hopeless standards . |
| 15 | The breakdown of the control apparatus is widely perceived as liberating managers to pursue economically sub-optimal goals , and as causing insufficient pressure to be imposed to promote managerial vigour and to ensure the competence of the management team . |
| 16 | In the South Wales case , for example , there is a zone called the ‘ golden triangle ’ which is widely perceived as especially attuned to the specifications of the new , ‘ high tec ’ , mainly Japanese industries . |
| 17 | The lack of substantial commitments to action is widely seen as reflecting conflicting interests and clashes within the government , particularly among the Departments of Transport , Energy , Agriculture and Trade and Industry where the environment is a contentious issue . |
| 18 | In particular , with the imposition of liberal democratic institutions after 1947 it is widely felt that ‘ the Japanese have elected to forego the assertion of the right to the expression of untrammelled personal freedom in the . |
| 19 | It is widely felt that the death last year of Graham Greene left a gap at the top of the Eng Lit ladder . |
| 20 | It is widely acknowledged that the school examination system has exerted a powerful controlling effect on school curricula , even if , in more recent times , CSE ( Mode 3 ) has allowed schools to play a significant role on the assessment of their own pupils . |
| 21 | It is widely acknowledged that about one in ten of us has a marked tendency to homosexuality and perhaps half this group have homosexual experience as adults ( homosexual feeling and experiment are even more common in adolescence ) . |
| 22 | All posts are subject to the local government superannuation scheme and it is widely acknowledged that this is one of the most attractive schemes offered anywhere . |
| 23 | Former Irish international Dr Geraldine Barniville from Dublin has been nominated as the new president but it is understood that Ulster 's Billy Bell and Paddy McAuley the outgoing treasurer and secretary will not be standing for election. , It is widely acknowledged that Paddy McIlroy , past president of Ulster , and the outgoing Irish vice-president , made a major contribution in drafting the new constitution and by-laws . |
| 24 | It overlooks the fact that the very notion that the market is capable of legitimating power is widely acknowledged as being open to serious doubt today . |
| 25 | The size of the problem from the point of view of governments is widely acknowledged as large and growing . |
| 26 | For example , an increase of approximately 100 per cent in vehicle mileage by 2025 is widely acknowledged as likely to be responsible for huge increases in energy consumption and pollution , yet the Department of Transport " is n't interested in energy efficiency " . |
| 27 | Thomson is state-owned and though there has been no overt policy statement from the French Government , it is widely accepted that its attitude towards the merger will be at least coloured by the MoD 's decision . |
| 28 | It is widely accepted that the spiral pattern formed by the stars of a galaxy like our own is produced by a density wave moving through the stars . |
| 29 | Self-promotion of that sort may be a matter for amused comment , but it is widely accepted that one may choose one 's Place in the pecking order , or try to , and that in Britain parentage does not irreversibly define class . |
| 30 | It is widely accepted that this system ‘ has nothing to teach us ’ . |