Example sentences of "be widely [vb pp] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The time may well arrive — indeed , that process is now under way — when the notion of the supremacy of the institutions of the Community and the primacy of Community law have become so firmly established that they are widely acknowledged to be a feature of the United Kingdom 's constitutional landscape . |
| 2 | Both Mrs Thatcher and Mr Kinnock are widely perceived to be liabilities to their parties . |
| 3 | Quasars are widely believed to be the cores of young galaxies . |
| 4 | The Dutch are widely expected to be the first to try it . |
| 5 | Winner of the South African Grand Prix on Sunday , Prost had been widely expected to be banned for one or more races or heavily fined . |
| 6 | This was the real fear behind the arguments about the declining calibre of the new county councillors compared with that of the magistrates of Quarter Sessions ( Dunbabin 1965 ; Dearlove 1979:Ch. 4 ) : ‘ democratic alterations were widely believed to be dangerous , and expected to lead to extravagance , inefficiency , or even rapacity and disorder ’ ( Dunbabin 1963:227 ) . |
| 7 | Accidents and injuries involving blood or other body fluids were widely believed to be under-reported . |
| 8 | The most noteworthy consequences of such an attitude was that at the same time as growing numbers of Latin Americans , particularly young people , were looking to Marxism for some kind of solution , the orthodox Communist parties were widely perceived to be inert and impotent . |
| 9 | Turkey and Iran were widely seen to be vying for influence in the area . |
| 10 | His unpublished logarithmical tables were widely held to be a great advance on those of Henry Briggs [ q.v . ] . |
| 11 | In the nineteenth century , the effects of economic development , colonialism and capitalism were widely thought to be wholly favourable to women . |
| 12 | Speaking to the Empire State Black Arts and Cultural Festival in Albany , New York , on July 20 , Jeffries made statements which were widely considered to be racist and anti-semitic . |
| 13 | In spite of its rarity in oral language , it is widely assumed to be easy to read , and hence is freely introduced into children 's fiction and other early reading materials . |
| 14 | This neglect is widely perceived to be a major unresolved problem . |
| 15 | A second important barrier is that factoring is widely perceived to be expensive . |
| 16 | There can be no doubt that the way of life argument is widely felt to be relevant to the issue of primary school closure in rural areas . |
| 17 | Britain 's clinical research is widely acknowledged to be in very bad shape . |
| 18 | It is a fishing port of sufficient importance to justify the laying of a single track railway to it from Fort William , this passing through scenery of such exquisite beauty that it is widely acknowledged to be the most delightful railway in Britain . |
| 19 | There , 50 or so textile mills produce what is widely acknowledged to be the finest wool cloth in the world . |
| 20 | The over-reliance on occupational class , which is widely acknowledged to be of diminishing utility in stratifying many social groups , has falsely persuaded some commentators that inequalities in mortality are shallower among adolescents than at any other stage in the life cycle . |
| 21 | DUFF House , near Banff , is widely recognised to be one of William Adams 's finest achievements . |
| 22 | A certain amount of attention is paid to colonialism in seeking an explanation for the political power of the bureaucracy in post-colonial states , and in particular its ‘ overdevelopment ’ in relation to other political institutions , since the role assigned to bureaucracy under colonialism is widely reckoned to be responsible for its present dominance . |
| 23 | The sacristy , reached after the second altar on the right , is widely believed to be the most beautiful in Milan because of the carved cupboards , the work of Giovanni Taurino , a master carver who was also responsible for the confessionals which he completed in 1596 . |
| 24 | Nevertheless it is widely believed to be the finest of all the remaining gates of the Spanish walls . |
| 25 | Various scientists have pioneered contact lens research but a sketch by Leonardo da Vinci is widely believed to be the earliest known reference to the principle of a contact lens ( Fig. 3 ) . |
| 26 | The grandson , who lives in Germany , is widely believed to be the driving force behind the court case . |
| 27 | While appropriate for armies , this model of organization is widely believed to be too inflexible , remote , impersonal , ineffective and inefficient for welfare provision . |
| 28 | The Booksellers and Publishers Associations are concerned that the trade and the public will be lulled into a false sense of security by recent press reports that the Prime Minister is taking control of economic policy and that he is widely believed to be against increasing taxes , including VAT . |
| 29 | The next stage is the 586 , which is widely believed to be the P5 processor which Intel has pre-announced . |
| 30 | The thrust of the above arguments is the suggestion that there is , or is widely believed to be , a trade-off between efficiency and equity whose precise form is unknown . |