Example sentences of "is widely [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The Eurocheque is widely accepted in shops and other establishments abroad check with your bank for details . |
| 3 | Money has to be something that is widely accepted in settlement of debts . |
| 4 | Biotechnology is widely applied in the treatment of industrial effluents and sewage and reference has already been made , in section 6.3.2 , to the potential that it provides for the denitrification of water intended for domestic consumption . |
| 5 | Borders Regional Council has sought to listen and to respond to its electorate and has succeeded in drawing up a document that is widely supported in the area . |
| 6 | The role and the value of account planning is widely debated in the industry . |
| 7 | The fire-bellied toad , when alarmed , suddenly throws itself on its back , so exposing its underside which blazes with a yellow and black pattern , a colour combination which is widely recognised in the animal world as a warning . |
| 8 | The " PartsBank " service is widely recognised in the U.S. as the most unique transportation and distribution system for time sensitive inventories , which is especially suited to the electronic and computer industries . |
| 9 | Epogam , a product containing this oil , is widely prescribed in the UK for treatment of atopic dermatitis ( AD ) . |
| 10 | Material characteristic of medieval Latin writing that is widely exploited in the fabliaux in ways that are often both entertaining and probing is the dogma of antifeminist traditions : traditions which present woman , the daughters of Eve , as generally morally reprehensible and dangerous to man ; insatiable and extravagant sexual sirens with their bodies , and perjurers , temptresses or endless naggers with their tongues . |
| 11 | The couple have a home in Hollywood and a farm in Vermont , but Michael , who is widely regarded in Hollywood as a workaholic , found it hard to put family first and is now keen to produce his own films as well as act in them . |
| 12 | ‘ He is widely regarded in the West as the token liberal , ’ Sims explained . |
| 13 | Industry is widely misunderstood in the world today . |
| 14 | " Product " is widely defined in the Act . |
| 15 | " Investment advertisement " is widely defined in s57(2) to mean any advertisement inviting persons to enter or offer to enter into an investment agreement or to exercise any rights conferred by an investment to acquire , dispose of , underwrite or convert an investment or containing information calculated to lead directly or indirectly to persons doing so . |
| 16 | " Arrangement " is widely defined in s131(7) as any agreement , scheme or arrangement and so would seem to encompass the arrangements described above . |
| 17 | It is thus a kind of distributional history in space rather than in time — although in archaeology both chronological and spatial dimensions are involved , and is widely employed in modern geographical studies . |
| 18 | This urge is not merely the nostalgic ‘ village patriotism ’ of a dwindling breed who remember Palestine before 1948 , as is widely believed in Israel . |
| 19 | For example , it is widely believed in English-speaking cultures that women are good listeners . |
| 20 | It is widely believed in Italy that the moon has a great influence on human beings and on nature . |
| 21 | The figure is widely extended in one plane , evidently designed for a primary view from an area in front of the torso with the head approximately in profile . |
| 22 | Allometry is widely observed in nature , and has been defined by Stephen Jay Gould , of Harvard . |
| 23 | In fact it has been known since the late 1950s ( see for example Nature , vol. 208 , p 423 ) that Po is widely distributed in the environment , and in man , as a result of atmospheric fall-out of the decay products of natural radon-222 , with an abundance in northern temperate latitudes of about 0.06 curie per sq.km or of the order of 10 6 curies in total over the surface of the world land mass . |
| 24 | Geologically this seems unlikely , if only because the Campanian chalk is widely distributed in the Paris Basin and is certainly not confined to the Montagne de Reims . ’ |
| 25 | The genus Proconsul is widely distributed in Uganda and Kenya in sediments ranging in age from 22 to 17Myr ( million years ago ) . |
| 26 | Fibre is widely distributed in the plant kingdom , and good sources are wholegrains and foods made from them , such as wholemeal bread , coarse oats and sweetcorn . |
| 27 | It is widely distributed in space among different individuals , and widely distributed in time over many generations . |
| 28 | The enzyme is widely distributed in various tissues and cells ; in fact , it is said that PLA2 has been found in every tissue studied . |
| 29 | Once again the language is vital to the analysis , for the term ‘ juggling ’ is widely used in relation to detection rates and carries with it an understanding that what is happening belongs to a world where movement conceals as often as it reveals . |
| 30 | Acupuncture is widely used in human alternative medicine . |