Example sentences of "[conj] is widely [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The thrust of the above arguments is the suggestion that there is , or is widely believed to be , a trade-off between efficiency and equity whose precise form is unknown .
2 Money has to be something that is widely accepted in settlement of debts .
3 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 .
4 Our own solution has been to subject the material about each author to a formal analysis , applying a psychiatric assessment procedure that is widely used in research and clinical practice .
5 This is a view that is widely held by those around the court itself .
6 Linda Nicholson is a member of the London Fortepiano Trio and is widely regarded as a leading fortepiano player .
7 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 .
8 The Tarot pack was invented in northern Italy in the fifteenth century and is widely used across the world today in ordinary card games .
9 Barley straw is soft and palatable , and is widely used as bulk feed for beef cattle .
10 Other bit image formats are GIF , which uses LZW compression and is widely used for clip art ; PIC , which is used by the Halo screen art programme ; and CUT , which uses the enhanced small disk drive RLL compression algorithm .
11 It is sold as an enhancer of the oxygen-carrying capacity of the blood , and is widely used by athletes in the USSR , says Dr Robert Woodward of Contassium .
12 This was developed by the Aldus Corporation and Microsoft particularly for images obtaining from scanning devices , and is widely used in desk top publishing .
13 1989b ) , and is widely used in social work .
14 This came from Morton 's Italian subsidiary and used to have a good market in Eastern Europe , though this has recently collapsed , and is widely used in sport shops and luggage , being washable and breathable — and cheaper than real leather .
15 Cleft grafting on the spot is the primary example of field grafting and is widely used in California where varieties of vines cultivated change rapidly with fashion : a grower simply cuts off the whole of his existing variety at rootstock level and clefts on the new desired variety .
16 Provision of such phase-related signals is described as phase splitting and is widely used in electronics for various purposes .
17 ‘ It 's like selling coal to Newcastle , as eleutherococcus comes from Siberia and is widely used in Russia , ’ said Eladon director Mr Ross .
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 This is not entirely explained by huge increases in population , as is widely propagated by the mass media and widely believed .
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