Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] was widely [vb pp] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite official claims to the contrary it was widely believed that China was maintaining its supplies to the Khmers Rouges and considerable stockpiles of arms were thought to have been accumulated . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , on the other hand it was widely felt that the system itself denied young people opportunities and circumstances in which they could have control over their own lives and education . |
| 3 | Certainly , in the mid-nineteenth century it was widely felt that life in the previous century had been greatly superior and that the increase in juvenile crime was a blot on this age . |
| 4 | This time it was widely recognised that a change in policy was necessary if it was to be achieved . |
| 5 | At one time it was widely believed that there had been a great rise in the birth-rate ; there was , in fact , a slow rise to the end of the 1861–70 decade , after which the rate began to fall . |
| 6 | At the time it was widely believed that Sugar would not be returning to operational flying , as the following press release issued at the time seemed to indicate : |
| 7 | At the time it was widely held that the early parts of the visual system acted like a closed-circuit television , with the eye acting as the camera and the visual cortex acting as the TV monitor . |