Example sentences of "be widely [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is an argument of increasing popularity with government and some of the advisers to government , that since comprehensive schools are widely seen to do worse for their pupils than selective schools in terms of examination results , and since so many people , if they can afford it , are removing their children from the maintained comprehensive sector to independent schools ( which are broadly speaking selective ) a way must be found for government to supply non-comprehensive schools , in the interests of the country as a whole . |
| 2 | The FDA 's audacious new tactics gained massive media coverage and are widely seen as only the beginning of a serious assault on products whose labelling is thought to violate federal law . |
| 3 | In Egypt , attacks by Islamic extremists are widely condemned by all parties , and the people stand firm behind the government . |
| 4 | These rules are still of value and are widely followed throughout Europe and Asia . |
| 5 | The large-flowered trumpet daffodils are widely grown everywhere , but some of those with short , contrasting cups are just as attractive as the trumpet varieties , and there are charming miniatures too |
| 6 | As well as cereals , root crops — particularly potatoes and sugar beet — are widely grown on the best arable land , whilst in areas nearer the big cities , vegetables are most profitable , particularly on well-drained sandy loams . |
| 7 | Rhizobium seeding , either by direct inoculation into soil or by inoculating legume seeds , has been successful in North America where soya beans are widely grown in soils where there are no naturally occurring rhizobial bacteria . |
| 8 | He puts great emphasis on the difficulties of prediction , and urges that where there are rules to which people do in fact adhere for the most part , and which help maintain the social stability required for any kind of good to flourish , we are likely to come nearest to doing what is objectively right ( in terms of its actual consequences ) if we also stick to the rules , but that where the rules , however useful they would be if generally obeyed , are widely flouted we should make a direct judgement of what will have the best consequences . |
| 9 | Graduates are widely sought after and experience little difficulty in securing employment with excellent career prospects . |
| 10 | The time may well arrive — indeed , that process is now under way — when the notion of the supremacy of the institutions of the Community and the primacy of Community law have become so firmly established that they are widely acknowledged to be a feature of the United Kingdom 's constitutional landscape . |
| 11 | Holist explanations are widely acknowledged to play a vital part in our understanding of the social world . |
| 12 | The tremendous achievements in economic , social and political reforms are widely acknowledged , and prompted the IMF and World Bank to extend their economic-assistance programmes to Egypt . |
| 13 | We can reveal that ministers will come under increasing pressure from a range of new research on the plight of elderly people , who are widely beaten , tormented or robbed by relatives or carers . |
| 14 | If graded tests are widely adopted within a school and if they are used properly as a means of assessing individual pupils ' ability and knowledge , according to their progress along the path of expertise , then the school must be prepared for classes that are grouped vertically , not horizontally . |
| 15 | Both propellers and silencers are widely adopted in Europe and fully approved by the German airworthiness authorities . |
| 16 | These , then , are the techniques , rules and procedures which are widely adopted as part of the practical management of large cohorts of pupils . |
| 17 | Penalty fees or fines constitute another form of economic incentive for not violating emission standards and these are widely adopted . |
| 18 | It is when discussing the many ways in which pas de bourrée can be danced that the uses of the feet are widely exposed . |
| 19 | Visualizing your opponent as he really is , without his fearsome trappings , is not easy ; and concentrating the mind , to allow you to visualize , is also an acquired skill ; but both concentration and visualization are widely taught techniques which can be mastered with practice . |
| 20 | Reservoir rocks suitable for gas production are widely developed in the Zechstein . |
| 21 | The seminars are widely publicised beforehand , and print and broadcast journalists are invited to attend . |
| 22 | Reports of takeover ‘ conflicts ’ are widely publicised and provoke considerable debate on the gains and losses caused by the takeover . |
| 23 | The services of hakims and the products used by them are widely advertised in Asian newspapers in Britain . |
| 24 | These are widely advertised in the evident continentality of so much of the late Permian and early Triassic record in Europe and North America . |
| 25 | Details are widely advertised and we hope that new members of the University will discover something of interest and visit the Chaplaincy Centre . |
| 26 | Even though , as readers of the fabliaux , we may spend a good deal of time smiling at the preposterous ingenuity of gross deceptions and misdeeds — in other words things that are generically wrongs in terms of conventional Christian morality — we have already seen that substantial elements of positive Christian spirituality and conventional morality are widely represented amongst the French fabliaux . |
| 27 | Neither of these two methods , both of which are widely implemented on almost every computer architecture , addresses the third artform , technical illustration . |
| 28 | The two elderly Reformed Church bishops in Transylvania , Laszlo Papp in Oradea and Gyula Nagy in Cluj , are widely viewed as being beholden to the regime , giving them little authority with their congrega-tions . |
| 29 | Mrs Gillian Shephard 's abilities are widely recognised . |
| 30 | It is , however , desirable to choose a set of terms that are widely recognised , internally consistent and as simple as possible , not introducing complex concepts unnecessarily . |