Example sentences of "it is widely " in BNC.
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| 1 | The one-year course is only to lay down the foundations of good technical training — and it is widely recognised that the course simply pushes the student into the profession with enough practical experience to find his or her feet . |
| 2 | It is widely recognised that the classical technique can and does prove a stable basis fur all styles of dance . |
| 3 | It is widely available and is now much simpler to fit . |
| 4 | It is widely supported and cloned , which proves its success . |
| 5 | It is widely believed he already has a short two per cent stake although Allied has not detected his presence on its share register . |
| 6 | It is widely believed that Mr Holmes a Court , the so called Perth predator , is keen to buy Dalgety 's extensive Australian land interests . |
| 7 | On the other side , it is widely believed that Kerr 's ambitions are backed by money belonging to Jack Gillespie , a director of Rangers . |
| 8 | It is widely assumed that Elders will not bother to hold on to any Scottish shares and its 23.7 per cent stake will be acquired and used as the springboard for a bid . |
| 9 | It is widely used in this tradition to describe a quality of the tasks of which policing is normally comprised — that these tasks are mostly mundane , ordinary , and day-to-day . |
| 10 | So standardized is it that it is widely called ‘ the attitude test ’ ( a phrase also used by American police , see van Maanen 1978 ) , and when stopping members of the public constables are routinely instructed by colleagues to give the potential offender ‘ the attitude test ’ . |
| 11 | But it is widely expected that further heads will have to roll if the discredited Communist Party is to retrieve the situation . |
| 12 | Thomson is state-owned and though there has been no overt policy statement from the French Government , it is widely accepted that its attitude towards the merger will be at least coloured by the MoD 's decision . |
| 13 | Certainly their substance should be accessible to anyone not so far gone in the contemplation of astrology — a science , so it is widely held , on the cogent grounds that its practitioners use computers — homeopathy , aromatherapy , or telekinesis as to be beyond the reach of reason . |
| 14 | Britain points out that the Bush Administration is still using its political weight in the IMF to block financial relief for Vietnam , even though it is widely recognised that the exodus from Vietnam will only stop when living standards improve . |
| 15 | Because the economy is in recession , it is widely assumed that the government will and should cut interest rates . |
| 16 | It is widely assumed that the general , who has been doing his best to fan the speculation , will try to become prime minister after he leaves the army . |
| 17 | It is widely expected to soar to 1m-2m this year . |
| 18 | These days , it is widely assumed that monitoring of firms by close , caring banks is a better way to run things than the arms-length institutional ownership of America and Britain . |
| 19 | Whether the life sentence is regarded as a sufficient denunciation in society depends on the public 's perception of what life imprisonment means : if it is widely believed that it results in an average of nine years ' imprisonment , the effect will be somewhat blunted . |
| 20 | It is widely thought that they are descended from genes , or groups of genes , of higher organisms , which have somehow escaped and set up life on their own . |
| 21 | Mr Kinnock is not obliged to include Mr McNamara in his first Cabinet but it is widely expected in the province that the Liverpool-born Roman Catholic would assume the portfolio that he has shadowed for more than five years . |
| 22 | It is widely recognized that the proportion of women who suffer mental disorders — particularly depression — exceeds that of men ( Cochrane , 1983 ) . |
| 23 | It is widely believed that as Down 's Syndrome is a specifically identifiable handicap with which babies are born , the possible change in their intellectual abilities will be either small or non-existent . |
| 24 | Nevertheless it is widely believed to be the finest of all the remaining gates of the Spanish walls . |
| 25 | It is widely recognised that it is not production of food but the low level of demand for food that is the problem for many and for varied reasons related to the forces and relations of production in which people are involved . |
| 26 | It is widely believed that penicillin , a substance obtained from moulds of the family called Penicillium , was discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming at St. Mary 's Hospital in London . |
| 27 | It is widely agreed that such psychoactive plants or preparations from them were much used in religious ceremonies , where their effects were taken as evidence for religious reality ; visions of Paradise which could be reached only by the faithful . |
| 28 | The process is known as convection , and it is widely , but not universally , believed to work on a huge scale in the mantle . |
| 29 | It is widely believed that the mines also produced gold which was used in the crowns of Scotland 's kings . |
| 30 | It is widely known that there are harmful effects from inhalation of outfall from a lead works ; for children who ingest it by licking lead-painted toys ; and for families whose drinking water is supplied through lead pipes . |