Example sentences of "it was widely [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before all these developments it was widely accepted that knowledge was something that was ‘ transmitted by words and absorbed by words ’ , and suddenly when faced with ‘ establishing the criteria for the arts as higher education subjects … we were forced to look at these subjects … and at what way they contributed to the role of higher education … |
| 2 | In this new environment it was widely believed that exchange rates , freed from restrictive intervention , would adjust reasonably smoothly to divergences in competitiveness , as predicted by the purchasing power parity theorem . |
| 3 | There were few women in senior positions in the school and it was widely rumoured that being Catholic and male were important factors in staff appointments in Bishop McGregor School . |
| 4 | Even up to the end of the eighteenth century it was widely held that mind resided in the spaces within the brain , the ventricles , rather than in the neural tissue itself . |
| 5 | At the same time it was widely known that unemployment relief , while inadequate , could only be paid at all as a result of direct subsidy from the Reich . |