Example sentences of "[been] widely [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Strike action on the coalfields was the major catalyst for the 1926 General Strike , and the miners have been widely perceived for several decades as at the forefront of trade union militancy in the United Kingdom . |
| 2 | ‘ Authoring Systems'--computer systems which allow a non-programmer ‘ author ’ to create a program automatically--have been widely used for industrial training software and offer unrivalled productivity . |
| 3 | No single measure of public expenditure has met with universal agreement , and even when one has been widely used for some time , it can be subject to change for a variety of reasons . |
| 4 | The term ‘ Personnel Management ’ has been widely used for 50 to 60 years to describe a range of activities , a body o& knowledge and a set of skills associated with the recruitment , administration and development of staff . |
| 5 | On the basis of tests carried out in the North Sea by the Laboratory , Bayne believes that organic pollutants may be having a greater impact on marine life than heavy metals such as lead , mercury and cadmium , which had hitherto been widely blamed for most of the damage . |