Example sentences of "been widespread [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we have heard , it has been claimed that there has been widespread hardship among students this summer . |
| 2 | Until then there had been widespread sympathy for Polish aspirations for greater autonomy ‘ and the government had moved cautiously in that direction . |
| 3 | Sympathy for the Soviet Union was a major advantage to the Labour Party during the campaign , because there had been widespread admiration of the achievements of the Red Army , not only in maintaining a successful resistance for almost four years but also in crowning that resistance with the capture of Berlin in spring 1945 . |
| 4 | There had been widespread fears of police violence , and water cannon had already been used against demonstrators on Saturday . |
| 5 | It is only recently , however , that there has been widespread realization of the implications for the study either of turbulence or of other systems . ) |
| 6 | … there has been widespread disillusionment with where educational technology is today that … from the pattern of " no significant difference " findings that we have reported in this paper . |
| 7 | There has been widespread discussion of the possible effects of LMS on teachers . |
| 8 | Security chiefs said there would have been widespread bloodshed if the bomb had gone off inside the soldiers ' quarters in Cookstown on Tuesday . |
| 9 | Nor should we suppose that T. S. Eliot was just firing off his big guns against R. A. Butler 's wartime Education Act of 1944 , for already in the 1930s there had been widespread criticism of ‘ standardisation ’ and ‘ levelling down ’ . |
| 10 | There has been widespread concern in the last 20 years that children from Afro-Caribbean and Asian communities are underachieving in British schools and , therefore , are at a disadvantage in entering further and higher education , acquiring professional and technical qualifications and in finding employment . |
| 11 | The infamous Rechem plant is located near Pontypool in Wales and there has been widespread concern at its operation . |
| 12 | Following the allegations of fraud in the July 1989 legislative and municipal elections in five states [ see p. 36811 ] an independent tribunal ruled in September that the left-wing nationalist Democratic Revolutionary Party ( Partido de la Revolución Democrática — PRD ) had in fact won 14 of the 18 seats in the state legislature in Michoacán , as opposed to the six initially conceded to the PRD against 12 for the ruling PRI , and that there had been widespread voting irregularities in the other four states . |
| 13 | More recently , there has been widespread imitation of styles of literary-theoretical writing , much of it read in translation from French ( so occasionally incorporating features of French discourse which have survived translation ) . |
| 14 | There has been widespread consultation throughout the country over the past 10 years involving the bishops , priests , religious education advisers , teachers parents , theologians and scripture scholars . |
| 15 | It is well known that there has been widespread acceptance of restrictive trade measures falling outside the formal GATT rules , e.g. voluntary export restraints and anti-dumping legislation . |
| 16 | Indeed , there has been widespread belief that management is not really feasible despite the fact that , in terms of producing a naturally-regenerating stand of timber trees without any sign of soil deterioration , there has been success for over a century , beginning with teak in southern Asia . |
| 17 | There has been widespread corruption in the ivory trade . |
| 18 | The shipyards , the traditional industry , had closed and there had been widespread unemployment . |
| 19 | There has been widespread commentary and advocacy concerning microcomputing strategies and particular applications . |
| 20 | On July 14 , when a PRI victory had already been announced by Michoacán 's State Electoral Commission , thousands of PRD supporters in the state capital , Morelia , protested against what they claimed had been widespread fraud . |