Example sentences of "widely [verb] [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Prince was more than keen to help ; as a result of that approach he convened a meeting , known as the Windsor Conference , which is still widely regarded as one of the most significant advances ever made in race relations . |
| 2 | McCleod was widely regarded as one of the best centre-forwards in the country , and several clubs were interested in him . |
| 3 | DESERT Victory , which relates how Monty 's Eighth Army drove back Rommel 's Afrika Korps at El Alamein 50 years ago , is widely regarded as one of the greatest war documentaries ever made . |
| 4 | McKinsey is widely regarded as one of the top business consulting companies in the world and Gerstner has been characterised as one of its stars . |
| 5 | Much of that potential now rests with the city 's other outstanding centre for music and the visual arts , the University of Birmingham 's Barber Institute of Fine Arts , widely regarded as one of the finest collections of its kind in Britain and , along with the Shakespeare Institute , surely the University 's greatest cultural asset . |
| 6 | Kalpokas , widely regarded as one of the country 's more able leaders , retained , however , his position as secretary-general of the VP and at a party congress was elected VP president in place of Lini on Aug. 7 . |
| 7 | As with support in the other direction , although it is widely regarded as legitimate for parents to look to their children , it is also possible for them to overstep the boundaries , and the way in which support is requested and delivered is important . |
| 8 | Criminal law appears to be regarded in legal education as something of a Cinderella subject , being widely regarded as suitable for beginners in the study of law to cut their teeth on before tackling the real business of legal study , viz. contract , tort , trusts and land law . |
| 9 | Agriculture was still a major economic activity in the first postwar decades , and the ability to control the food supply was widely regarded as central to national sovereignty . |
| 10 | Low-level radiation , widely regarded as harmless , may be a causal factor in leukaemia , according to research by the Medical Research Council . |
| 11 | ‘ American culture ’ is widely regarded as inferior to ‘ European culture ’ , even as a threat . |
| 12 | He will reject what a conventionalist accepts as law only in special cases , when a statute is old and out-of-date , for example , or when a line of precedent is widely regarded as unfair or inefficient , and it is difficult to see what of value is then lost . |
| 13 | Both Cosic and FRY Prime Minister Milan Panic had called for early presidential and general elections in Serbia to remove from power the republic 's hardline President Slobodan Milosevic , who was widely regarded as responsible for the continuation of the Bosnian conflict . |
| 14 | In 1885 Prussian Oberpräsident Möllendorf , who was widely regarded as pro-Polish , recommended a total ban on the Polish language , saying that only in this way was it possible to force the Poles to appreciate the benevolence and wisdom of German culture and administration . |
| 15 | The latter were widely regarded as corrupt and impure ( see for example the views on Cockney cited in note 1 , above ) . |
| 16 | The proposals were widely regarded as unrealistic , with adverse criticism ( at varying strengths ) from the Law Society , the Lord Chancellor 's Advisory Committee on Legal Aid , NACAB , the Legal Action Group and others . |
| 17 | Thousands of pub landlords had been given notices to quit and offered lease agreements with rents widely regarded as excessive . |
| 18 | But even setting aside such terminological differences , it remains true that whether or not any animals employ symbolic representations is widely regarded as doubtful . |
| 19 | Even with the ending of East-West confrontations and the prospect of nuclear armouries being run down rapidly , it is hard to imagine a world in which civil reactors are widely regarded as safe and the problems of acceptable disposal of nuclear wastes are overcome . |
| 20 | But it is rich that John Major should talk of earning honours when his own Government is widely regarded as inept in so many ways . |
| 21 | The finding of anaemia at presentation in almost half our patients is worth noting as it is still widely taught that this is an indicator of chronic rather than acute renal failure . |
| 22 | The fact that most of them already had criminal records was widely publicised and used as evidence of their guilt in the Chai Qing Feng case . |
| 23 | Following the abolition of the Council for Environmental Quality [ see ED 67 ] , which was widely criticized as ineffective , President Clinton has announced the establishment of a new Office on Environmental Policy , based in the White House . |
| 24 | It has been widely criticized as inequitable , because all those who are not exempt pay the same rate , regardless of income . |
| 25 | As we know er Darwin published his great work in eighteen fifty nine cos he had to , he really did n't want to but was forced , but in eighteen seventy one he published another important book called the Descent of Man or Evolution in Relation to Sex and in this book Darwin established a principle , which a which at the time he was widely criticized and ridiculed and this was the principle of female choice . |
| 26 | It is now widely recognized that all such attempts have failed , yet it continues to be assumed that the rational agent has somehow pulled himself up by his bootstraps out of reach of his own spontaneity . |
| 27 | However , much of this work is heavily weighted towards the study of individual words , even though it is widely recognized that most vocabulary growth comes from encountering words in the course of reading . |
| 28 | In fact it is now widely recognized that some consumption expenditure of this type , in so far as it combats malnutrition , should be considered as equivalent to investment . |
| 29 | This is widely recognized as one of the biggest stumbling blocks to the successful implementation of any innovation , and particularly one such as profiling which requires teachers to find time for a new kind of activity , namely one-to-one discussion with pupils , as well as completing detailed records . |
| 30 | Constant meetings and interface requirements exacerbate time pressure , widely recognized as exasperating . |