Example sentences of "[pron] [be] widely [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Firstly the curriculum ‘ must promote development in all the main areas of learning and experience which are widely accepted as important ’ . |
| 2 | Humans have a special affinity for dolphins , which are widely perceived as having a special degree of intelligence . |
| 3 | Whatever action is taken on the final report of the Buea project ( and I have fears that the heavy reliance on expatriate experts in the project and in drawing up the report may not contribute to its being widely read and followed in Cameroon ) there can be no question that the project marks an important landmark in curriculum planning in Africa . |
| 4 | Up to this time many astronomers had regarded Venus as the Earth 's twin , and that beneath the clouds , which were widely regarded as consisting of water , there were oceans and perhaps vegetation and animals . |
| 5 | These developments in British economic thinking are shown by the publication of two remarkable business texts , which were widely read and discussed in the early 1960s. first , appearing under the title Management 's Mission in a New Society , were 20 provocative papers , originally written in celebration of the first 50 years of the Harvard Business School . |
| 6 | Mr Hunte conferred subsequently with other ICC officials , principally Sir Colin Cowdrey , the chairman , and drew up penalties which were widely considered as being too mild . |
| 7 | The BA Hons Business Studies is a qualification which is widely accepted and respected by industry , commerce and the public sector . |
| 8 | Ageism is one of the most insidious forms of discrimination , one which is widely accepted and rarely challenged . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Of course , this can only be verified by a complete inventory , but the important point is that the sampling methods used , and the way in which the results were extrapolated to apply to the whole collection , are based on a sound mathematical theory which is widely used and tested in other fields , and therefore carried sufficient weight to satisfy the Museum and its auditors . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | For Mrs Thatcher and her government , antagonism towards the miners in part reflected a desire for revenge against the union which was widely perceived as precipitating the political crisis which led to the downfall of a previous Conservative government , led by Edward Heath , in 1974 . |
| 13 | The case had been brought by the CDU which was widely perceived as anxious not to lose votes to the Republicans [ see below ] . |
| 14 | The Canadian Senate , which was widely perceived as being in need of reform , had possessed a solid Liberal majority as a legacy of 21 years of almost uninterrupted Liberal government which had ended in 1984 . |
| 15 | In Byelorussia , which was widely regarded as retaining one of the most conservative republican leaderships , it had been decided to allocate a quota of reserved Supreme Soviet seats for official organizations ( a practice applied in the March 1989 elections to the USSR Congress of People 's Deputies but since labelled undemocratic and abandoned for national elections — see p. 36978 ) . |
| 16 | The RIBA had produced a standard form of building contract which was widely used and regarded as reflecting the various roles involved . |
| 17 | One of the most notorious ways of spreading infection has been the computer game Leisure Suit Larry , which was widely pirated and became infected . |
| 18 | Through a complex set of such exchanges the economic activities of people who are widely dispersed and who are entirely unaware of each other 's existence can be coordinated . |
| 19 | A long term resident of the Bishop 's Castle area , she was widely known and respected . |
| 20 | Ozawa , 50 , who was widely seen as seen as the real leader of the new group , firmly committed himself to comprehensive political reform . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Chevènement was replaced as Defence Minister by Interior Minister Pierre Joxe , who was widely described as tough and austere and a close ally of Mitterrand . |
| 24 | Moreover , the Council itself was widely regarded as dangerously left-wing , dominated not just by teachers , but by teachers acceptable to the furthest left of the teachers ' unions , the NUT ( itself then containing large proportion of primary school teachers , without university connections ) . |
| 25 | Given the choice , most scientists would prefer to study molecules in the gas phase where they are widely separated and do not interfere with one another . |
| 26 | They are widely dispersed and are engaged in a wide variety of activities . |
| 27 | But , for all their youthfulness , they are widely experienced and shrewd , and possess not only uncommon physiques but rare bowling actions . |
| 28 | One of the key themes of the campaign was the degree to which the country 's recently re-established democratic process would be safe in the hands of any of the traditional party leaders , all of whom were widely perceived as personifying a political culture traditionally steeped in patronage and money . |
| 29 | ( 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 . ) |
| 30 | 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 ’ . |