Example sentences of "were widely [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Steel frames were widely available in the 1930s , but these early frames were liable to rust and could soon look tacky . |
| 2 | This picture is confirmed by the large numbers of bronze coins recovered from excavations in ancient cities such as Athens or Rome , which indicate that low-value coins were widely available . |
| 3 | Though Bantam had not specialised in publishing science books , their books were widely available in airport book stalls . |
| 4 | For example , a worker who is unaware that exposure to high levels of benzene , as happens in some chemical plants , might cause cancer will be willing to work for a lower wage than she would if this information were widely available . |
| 5 | The situation has improved immensely since 1966 , when the Small Area Statistics were only available on punched cards with no software , but many academics are still wary of computers , particularly those who were trained before they were widely available . |
| 6 | One criticism that was levelled at calculators when they were widely available was that kids would start using them and really would n't understand basic arithmetic . |
| 7 | Our national women youth workers ' conferences were widely successful with heterosexual women . |
| 8 | ( Branscomb I 940 : ix ) His conclusions were published in Teaching with books ( I 940 ) and were widely influential among librarians and their academic allies . |
| 9 | Yet both original film and play were widely unavailable until the early Eighties , due to copyright problems and the author 's insistence ( after a public outcry had kept the play , completed in 1897 , off the Austrian stage until 1921 ) that it not be produced for fear of his intentions being betrayed . |
| 10 | In pre-Christian antiquity two theories of inspiration were widely current . |
| 11 | Thus , in local government , attempts to curb the spending and pretensions of local authorities from Liverpool to Lambeth , especially when they could be designated ‘ loony left ’ , were widely acceptable . |
| 12 | As with attempts to control revenue , these capital controls were widely unpopular in local government , and authoritatively criticized as uncertain , inefficient and wasteful ( Audit Commission , 1985b ) . |
| 13 | Although nothing became of this beyond an agreement that there were widely different views on the matter , that same year the Government of Australia proposed that the so called cull grenade should be banned . |
| 14 | As late as the 1960s the translations and imitations of Robert Lowell , who had sat at Tate 's feet , were widely supposed to have been validated by Pound 's precedent in this kind of writing , whereas in truth Lowell 's Imitations allowed themselves liberties such as Pound would never have condoned . |
| 15 | The average adult body contains about 6 litres of blood and if all the innumerable blood vessels were widely open simultaneously , there would be insufficient blood to fill them . |