Example sentences of "be widely [verb] that the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the early decades of the century it had been widely assumed that the distinct geographical provinces of the modern world had only come into existence quite recently in geological terms . |
| 2 | It has also been widely observed that the form of intonation is different in different languages ; for example , the intonation of languages such as Swedish , Italian or Hindi is instantly recognisable as being different from that of English . |
| 3 | It will be widely assumed that the cabinet fears it would be unable to control a judicial inquiry . |
| 4 | ( Such a theory involved denying the claims of James 's son , but doubts had been raised as to whether the Queen had really conceived the child , it being widely believed that the baby had been smuggled into the bed-chamber in a warming-pan . ) |
| 5 | Although there was no confirmation last night , it was being widely assumed that the explosives were Semtex and the discovery part of a pattern of similar finds and explosions in an IRA mainland campaign that has continued for more than a year . |
| 6 | Because the economy is in recession , it is widely assumed that the government will and should cut interest rates . |
| 7 | It is widely assumed that the general , who has been doing his best to fan the speculation , will try to become prime minister after he leaves the army . |
| 8 | It is widely assumed that the more efficiently a stock market functions the better off everyone is . |
| 9 | This attitude to non-verbal communication has been encouraged by the popularisation of right-brain left-brain studies and amongst those who sponsor the soft primitivism that I have just referred to it is widely assumed that the verbal capabilities of the left cerebral hemisphere have been over-developed by a culture which puts too much emphasis on linguistic finesse and that the expressive repertoire of the supposedly holistic right hemisphere has been dangerously neglected as a consequence . |
| 10 | It is widely assumed that the Bundesbank council will effect a 50 basic points cut in official rates at either the meeting this Thursday or on 1 April . |
| 11 | It is widely felt that the death last year of Graham Greene left a gap at the top of the Eng Lit ladder . |
| 12 | It is widely acknowledged that the school examination system has exerted a powerful controlling effect on school curricula , even if , in more recent times , CSE ( Mode 3 ) has allowed schools to play a significant role on the assessment of their own pupils . |
| 13 | It is widely accepted that the spiral pattern formed by the stars of a galaxy like our own is produced by a density wave moving through the stars . |
| 14 | It is widely accepted that the rate increases as firms get smaller as liquidity burdens are passed along in a ripple effect from the very largest firms through lengthening credit notes . |
| 15 | It is widely accepted that the next ten years presents the Health Service with a manpower problem . |
| 16 | It is widely accepted that the Industrial Revolution in the eighteenth century was preceded by a long period of gradual economic growth , but when the upturn began remains uncertain . |
| 17 | As a result , it is widely accepted that the Council has assisted significantly in the improvement of all these factors in colleges offering courses leading to its degrees . |
| 18 | The one-year course is only to lay down the foundations of good technical training — and it is widely recognised that the course simply pushes the student into the profession with enough practical experience to find his or her feet . |
| 19 | It is widely recognised that the classical technique can and does prove a stable basis fur all styles of dance . |
| 20 | Britain points out that the Bush Administration is still using its political weight in the IMF to block financial relief for Vietnam , even though it is widely recognised that the exodus from Vietnam will only stop when living standards improve . |
| 21 | It is widely recognised that the most dynamic English today is often found outside England : from Saul Bellow , Alice Walker and Toni Morrison from the United States , Anita Desai from India , Nadine Gordimer from South Africa , V. S. Naipaul from Trinidad , Chinua Achebe from Nigeria , for example . |
| 22 | It is widely recognised that the Food Safety Act 1990 will progressively impact on the way food businesses operate . |
| 23 | It is widely recognized that the proportion of women who suffer mental disorders — particularly depression — exceeds that of men ( Cochrane , 1983 ) . |
| 24 | It is widely believed that the mines also produced gold which was used in the crowns of Scotland 's kings . |
| 25 | As Ives ( 1987 ) has discussed , it is widely believed that the situation in the Himalaya will reach crisis proportions by the turn of the century , affecting not only that region but also downstream and deltaic areas that are in receipt of drainage from the Ganges and Brahmaputra Rivers . |
| 26 | It is widely believed that the vast luminosity ( up to 10 45 ergs -1 ) arising from a very compact volume ( a light-year or less ) in quasars and Seyfert galaxies are powered by black holes with masses of the order of 10 9 M and ; , and that such black holes should reside in the nuclei of many , perhaps most galaxies as luminous as the Milky Way . |
| 27 | Although it is widely believed that the Spanish encountered an almost pristine landscape in AD 1521 ( refs 1–3 ) , some archival and palaeolimnological studies have suggested that extensive land clearance began before European contact , during the Preclassic to Postclassic periods . |
| 28 | It is widely believed that the case presented by the police to the prosecutor and , through him , to court , consists purely of facts or evidence . |
| 29 | It is widely believed that the United Kingdom has a rising crime wave , and crime is thought to be more widespread in the United Kingdom than in other western countries . |
| 30 | It is widely believed that the United Kingdom has one of the highest rates of crime , whereas it has one of the lowest in the western world . |