Example sentences of "it be widely [verb] in " in BNC.

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1 Wilson knew that some visiting Americans had let it be widely known in Florence that they considered Mrs Browning little more than a ghost and though she had laughed such gossip to scorn she now saw there was perhaps real cause for alarm .
2 For example , it is widely believed in English-speaking cultures that women are good listeners .
3 It is widely believed in Italy that the moon has a great influence on human beings and on nature .
4 It is widely distributed in space among different individuals , and widely distributed in time over many generations .
5 It is widely used in this tradition to describe a quality of the tasks of which policing is normally comprised — that these tasks are mostly mundane , ordinary , and day-to-day .
6 It is the major medium for high-level training and it is widely used in most other forms of interaction .
7 Mr Kinnock is not obliged to include Mr McNamara in his first Cabinet but it is widely expected in the province that the Liverpool-born Roman Catholic would assume the portfolio that he has shadowed for more than five years .
8 It is widely found in cough mixtures ( eg Actifed ) and hay-fever medication , some of which can be bought without a prescription .
9 It was widely felt in the colleges that the Gann C1 and C2 groupings were an over-simplification of the existing situation , as the potential C1 students who possessed suitable qualifications and had clear objectives were in a minority .
10 In addition , it was widely believed in the 1950s that nuclear fission would be a cheap and increasingly important source of energy in the future .
11 It was widely believed in the western world that north Korea was simply created by the Soviet Union in a manner similar to that used by the Soviet Union in eastern Europe .
12 There could be no doubt that FGD was practical : it was widely employed in Japan , the USA had 88 units and 40 more under construction some two years earlier , and West Germany had announced plans for a retrofit of 200 power plants and other large boilers in 1983 giving over 80 per cent FGD on power plants by 1988 .
13 Highly aggressive in tone and content , the authenticity of the memorial has yet to be proved , but it was widely circulated in China , where it was believed to be genuine , especially as the policies of the 1930s seemed to be fully in accordance with it .
14 Although National Party parliamentary leader Jim Bolger denounced the agreement as " a panic move " , it was widely welcomed in many quarters .
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