Example sentences of "were [adv] widely " in BNC.
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| 1 | The customs establishment was one of the more extensive branches of the eighteenth-century bureaucracy , and the fact that its officers were necessarily widely dispersed enhanced the attraction of the service for freeholders , burgh councillors and their friends , for an appointment in their home district was not an unreasonable objective . |
| 2 | Criticisms such as these were so widely deemed effective that by the middle of the 1960s Realism was popularly held to have been superseded as the dominant approach in the discipline . |
| 3 | The landlords of this period often had a bond of sympathy with their tenants in that they too had to struggle for a living , and that their living conditions , especially in the tenth and early eleventh centuries , were not widely different . |
| 4 | This method of assignment was intended to ensure that the groups contained schools from each of the participating authorities and were not widely different in terms of the social background of pupils , school size , and environment . |
| 5 | His books were not widely circulated and in one of the last two which were dedicated to his son ( and unpublished ) was the assertion that it contains instances " that will make you a better interpreter of dreams than all , or at least inferior to none ; but , if published , they will show you know no more than the rest " — a sentiment which T. R. Glover rather pithily describes as suggesting science declining into profession . |
| 6 | In some cases , autonomous groups certainly did achieve higher levels of shop-floor control , but were not widely popular with management , presumably for that reason . |
| 7 | Before 1966 these claims were not widely supported and carried little political weight . |
| 8 | The serotonin reuptake inhibitors seem to have similar efficacy to the tricyclic and related antidepressants , but the analysis of efficacy is less reliable than that of acceptability because intention to treat analyses were not widely used , different Hamilton scales were used , and reporting of standard deviation was inadequate . |
| 9 | In 1875 he published Diseases of the Hip , Knee , and Ankle Joints , with their Deformities , and for the rest of his life published many pamphlets setting out his ideas , but these were not widely distributed . |
| 10 | All of these benefits , whilst clear within the Bank , were not widely known by our customers . |
| 11 | Non-dispersive interferometers , though available , were not widely used prior to the advent of modern computer technology . |
| 12 | What banking services there were , had been developed on the continent by Italians , and were not widely available outside the capital cities like London , so provincial merchants must have employed other forms of credit . |
| 13 | It was characteristic of the radical agitational movements in Derry to echo ideas which were already widely accepted , but to put them forward in a more aggressive , combative and militant style . |
| 14 | They were once widely distributed throughout the North and Baltic Seas , but populations here have rapidly declined as a result of environmental contaminants such as pesticide residues and toxic industrial wastes . |
| 15 | It was accepted that there had been no deliberate attempt to claim for unauthorised travel , but it was obvious that the regulations had not been publicised effectively , and the section head took steps to ensure that they were more widely circulated to prevent any further occurrences . |
| 16 | As we have seen , the decisions of the Roman Council of 1059 , which were more widely distributed than almost any others in the century , never mentioned the decision about the Eucharist . |
| 17 | Hence it was decided that the pathway should be set up as a small demonstration project only and be fully evaluated before its concepts were more widely introduced into the school . |
| 18 | Fertilizers were more widely used . |
| 19 | In 1912–14 the statistician A. L. Bowley and his colleagues surveyed five representative English towns to establish whether Rowntree 's findings in York were more widely applicable . |
| 20 | Much would be achieved if these were more widely acknowledged . |
| 21 | Hedgerows produced berries , fruits , and herbs : the lore concerning these products would have been common knowledge in former times when they were more widely used . |
| 22 | Thereafter they were more widely spaced in both chronology and geography but have been recorded in 1817 – 18 , 1831 ( confined to Cornwall ) , 1847 ( again confined to Cornwall in England , though extensive in Scotland ) and final episodes in Devon in 1854 and 1867 . |
| 23 | These doubts were still widely encountered at the time of the 1840 Convention but a debate there and at the 1843 meeting stimulated the search for a reliable supply of free-labour cotton to reduce dependence on the slaveholders of the American South . |
| 24 | Science and scientific argument were still widely defined . |
| 25 | Commercial and manufacturing premises were also widely damaged , and swathes of war-damaged land were for years eloquent testimony to both the urgency of the problem , and of course the potential scope for imaginative solutions . |
| 26 | First , in the communist societies , the assertion of basic civil and political rights was a major element in the programmes of the opposition movements , and such ideas were also widely diffused in the 1970s and 1980s in West European communist parties , in what was called the ‘ Eurocommunist ’ movement ( Ross , 1991 ) . |
| 27 | From about 1780–1820 , binders ' tickets were fairly widely used , i.e. printed or engraved slips pasted in the front of the book . |
| 28 | But leaving aside instances of momentary irritation , of which there were many , as all field-workers must expect , most respondents became confident enough in the field-worker 's presence to express what were undoubtedly widely held fears about the research . |
| 29 | Pigmented natural earths , dug from the ground as lumps , were previously widely available , being sawn into smaller lengths for drawing purposes . |
| 30 | However , if we take eleven years to the date of writing ( 1978–89 at Table 5.3 ) , we find that , while job losses were concentrated in manufacturing , they were again widely spread within it . |