Example sentences of "were widely [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were widely supported : Shanghai , with its huge foreign settlement , became the centre of anti-Japanese popular protest . |
| 2 | At a time when the universities were widely regarded by politicians as idle , expensive , and impervious to the demands of vocationalism in education , such a step was welcome and , indeed , government-inspired . |
| 3 | Either by nationalisation or by the creation of new industries , SOEs were widely regarded as an essential feature of managing the ‘ commanding heights ’ of the economy . |
| 4 | The latter were widely regarded as corrupt and impure ( see for example the views on Cockney cited in note 1 , above ) . |
| 5 | It was recognized that there were distinct social orders within the community , but these were widely regarded as ‘ natural ’ and their relationship was defined as an organic one : each had his or her part to play , be it ever so humble . |
| 6 | The excise laws were widely regarded by the Irish as unnecessarily strict , and they certainly resulted in harsh repressive measures being taken by excise officers , often in conjunction with military forces , although there is ample evidence that both sides resorted to violence at times . |
| 7 | The proposals were widely regarded as unrealistic , with adverse criticism ( at varying strengths ) from the Law Society , the Lord Chancellor 's Advisory Committee on Legal Aid , NACAB , the Legal Action Group and others . |
| 8 | Up to this time many astronomers had regarded Venus as the Earth 's twin , and that beneath the clouds , which were widely regarded as consisting of water , there were oceans and perhaps vegetation and animals . |
| 9 | A small proportion ( about 20 ) of the 660 people living in the hospital in 1984 were widely regarded as presenting such serious challenges that it had been planned to move them to new sub-regional institutions rather than community services . |
| 10 | This meant that in spite of their class selfishness and legalistic pedantry they were widely regarded as the defenders of liberty and established rights ( the two were still largely synonymous ) against royal autocracy and ‘ ministerial despotism ’ . |
| 11 | These seven , led by Walter Sisulu , had since their release addressed major pro-ANC rallies inside South Africa , acting as if the organization were no longer banned , and were widely regarded as constituting an effective " internal ANC leadership " , although the organization denied the existence of differences of approach . |
| 12 | Reporters in Vilnius noted meanwhile that the Lithuanian population remained calm and apparently unperturbed by what were widely regarded as Soviet provocations : a pro-independence rally on April 7 organized by Sajudis drew a crowd of up to 300,000 people . |
| 13 | The elections were widely regarded as a major setback for the ruling Kuomintang ( KMT ) and for President Lee . |
| 14 | [ These proposals were widely opposed , and they were abandoned by the new Conservative government in 1979 , although much groundwork had been done in the meantime on the legal and administrative aspects of implementing them ( see 1979 Benn , 1979 Dickson ) . ] |
| 15 | At this time the reviews controlled ‘ the public taste ’ , and the 1807 Poems were widely ridiculed . |
| 16 | The gloomy terms of his report to the then Labour Foreign Secretary , David Owen , were widely leaked . |
| 17 | They became scapegoats for crimes committed and were widely bruited as potential subversives . |
| 18 | Prison Department divisions were widely criticized by governors for appearing to operate in isolation , each pursuing their own areas of interest without regard to the priorities of other divisions and establishment needs . |
| 19 | ( Cash more and Troyna , the editors of the volume in which Rex 's paper appeared , were widely criticized for their own collapse into a cultural essentialism which accused ‘ black youth ’ of being ‘ arrogant , rumbustious and contemptuous ’ and having ‘ a certain fascination for violence ’ ( 1982 , pp. 18 , 33 ) . ) |
| 20 | Both the President and the Secretary of Health and Human Services , Louis Sullivan , welcomed the findings , although the methods of the survey were widely criticized by many independent experts . |
| 21 | If , as is argued here , the representatives of the state at the local level were widely viewed as indigenous , what prompted nationalist agitation ? |
| 22 | The overall change in the contribution of these causes to mental handicap could be considerable , but only if screening techniques were widely employed and acted upon . |
| 23 | Traditionally the largest man-made hole in England , it is the result of the running together of a number of small quarries Cornish slates were widely employed for roofing in the county by the fourteenth century and indeed by 1314 they were certainly in use on buildings in Winchester , Hampshire . |
| 24 | Nailing was an exception , but women and children were widely employed in the light metal wares of Birmingham . |
| 25 | Bricks were of two types , sun dried and kiln burnt , and these were widely employed , particularly in provincial work . |
| 26 | Many of the leading scholars amongst the South Slavs during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries were widely travelled and had studied in France , Germany , Austria and Italy , where they were caught up in the intellectual ferment which was abroad at that time . |
| 27 | Ian Mill , counsel for the Rochdale-born singer , said her voice on the tape is ‘ poor and shrill ’ and her reputation would be damaged if the songs were widely heard . |
| 28 | The debt at the end of the American war had been sixteen to seventeen times the revenue , and prophets of doom were widely heard amid the financial gloom . |
| 29 | Only one course had an examination for methods work : continuous assessment ( eight ) and essays/projects ( nine ) were widely favoured . |
| 30 | The Assassins , a Muslim sect founded in the eleventh century , were reputed to reward their devotees with visions of heaven by the use of hashish ( from which they were widely assumed to derive their name ) . |