Example sentences of "[noun sg] were widely " in BNC.
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| 1 | The monthly days of fasting and humiliation were widely disliked and ignored . |
| 2 | So completely was it abandoned that with the passage of time , and the weathering away of what little remained of it , its location was forgotten , although the facts of its existence and its fate were widely known . |
| 3 | Remarks made on Dec. 6 by an APLA spokesperson were widely seen as a " declaration of war " on the white community , and APLA was also believed to have been responsible for various other incidents . |
| 4 | In the nineteenth century , the effects of economic development , colonialism and capitalism were widely thought to be wholly favourable to women . |
| 5 | Claims by the NSF that the riots were part of an attempted neo-communist coup were widely discounted . |
| 6 | The keys to the Cathedral were widely distributed as far as I can make out . ’ |
| 7 | Fears of revolution and subversion were widely held in 1880 . |
| 8 | The subtler aspects of their effects on behaviour were widely investigated but remained extremely difficult to evaluate . |
| 9 | A man of marked ability , his knowledge and experience of Irish education were widely recognized . |
| 10 | The Trust 's recommendations for a code of practice designed to reconcile the interests of conservation and tourism were widely welcomed . |
| 11 | Japanese reactions to Western contact as a whole were widely varied and highly ambiguous . |
| 12 | In pre-Christian antiquity two theories of inspiration were widely current . |
| 13 | The debt at the end of the American war had been sixteen to seventeen times the revenue , and prophets of doom were widely heard amid the financial gloom . |
| 14 | The relative lack of progress on START and in particular the multilateral CFE negotiations ( being conducted in Vienna within the framework of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe , CSCE — see p. 37335 ) since the Malta summit were widely attributed to Soviet concern over the pace and implications of German unification , and whether a unified Germany could be allowed to be a member of NATO . |
| 15 | Certainly the Becket conflict had wider repercussions than an insular struggle between English king and archbishop and the principles and arguments in the quarrel were widely discussed , for there were deeper issues relative to the nature of authority . |
| 16 | If , as is argued here , the representatives of the state at the local level were widely viewed as indigenous , what prompted nationalist agitation ? |
| 17 | Yet both original film and play were widely unavailable until the early Eighties , due to copyright problems and the author 's insistence ( after a public outcry had kept the play , completed in 1897 , off the Austrian stage until 1921 ) that it not be produced for fear of his intentions being betrayed . |
| 18 | The therapeutic properties of amber were widely recognized in the classical world . |
| 19 | But quotas set to ensure the sustainability of the resource were widely ignored : Russian and East European factory ships moved in for months at a time , and Spain took the opportunity to develop a host of industries back home — from ship-building to canning — based on the hake resources of Namibia . |
| 20 | Garway 's learning and his frugality were widely admired , and he seems to have demanded of the government the same standards . |
| 21 | For example , a worker who is unaware that exposure to high levels of benzene , as happens in some chemical plants , might cause cancer will be willing to work for a lower wage than she would if this information were widely available . |
| 22 | Both the President and the Secretary of Health and Human Services , Louis Sullivan , welcomed the findings , although the methods of the survey were widely criticized by many independent experts . |
| 23 | The results in rectal mucosa of twins with Crohn 's disease were widely scattered and affected twins did not differe significantly from normal controls . |
| 24 | The policies of the Ministry of Finance were widely blamed both for peasant misery and for the threat to social stability which it entailed . |