Example sentences of "[be] widely [verb] to " 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 Traditionally a strong , fast draught breed ( and therefore horned ) the Limousin is now an important and popular beef and veal breed which has been widely exported to European countries and to North America , Australasia and South Africa .
6 Scholarships , Grants and Awards brochures and application forms are now available and have been widely circulated to all Sections and those who have requested them .
7 That is the principle of subsidiarity , which has been widely subscribed to by political leaders across the European Community .
8 The greater absolute numbers of elderly people have been absorbed by the growing private sector despite a simultaneous collapse of long term provision in the NHS , and this has been widely attributed to the impact of the central government funding system for private residential care .
9 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 .
10 It is hoped that the new McofS policy will be widely distributed to relevant bodies , and that any future developments are of a higher standard than at present .
11 The directory will be widely distributed to advice centres and tenants groups and it is hoped that other agencies such as local police stations will be interested in obtaining copies .
12 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 ) .
13 Accidents and injuries involving blood or other body fluids were widely believed to be under-reported .
14 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 .
15 Turkey and Iran were widely seen to be vying for influence in the area .
16 Because of the prevailing financial circumstances , the DES did not officially publish the Report until the end of 1977 , though inevitably its contents were widely known to interested parties by then .
17 His unpublished logarithmical tables were widely held to be a great advance on those of Henry Briggs [ q.v . ] .
18 In the nineteenth century , the effects of economic development , colonialism and capitalism were widely thought to be wholly favourable to women .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 The results , and in particular the significant losses incurred by the PvdA , were widely attributed to voters ' dissatisfaction with a lack of new policies introduced by the new centre-left government .
22 The leaflet is being widely distributed to archaeological , environmental and countryside organisations , educational institutions and local authority departments including museums and libraries .
23 Two of ACE 's founding fathers , Compaq Computer Corp and Santa Cruz Operation Inc are now being widely tipped to stymie their respective MIPS-based ACE development work ; not just because MIPS is about to lose its independence to Silicon Graphics Inc , but also because the Intel Corp 80586 ( P5 ) bandwagon is now gathering a full head of steam , whilst DEC is also doing its damnedest to undermine the whole MIPS effort with its Alpha RISC ( see below ) .
24 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 .
25 This neglect is widely perceived to be a major unresolved problem .
26 A second important barrier is that factoring is widely perceived to be expensive .
27 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 .
28 Britain 's clinical research is widely acknowledged to be in very bad shape .
29 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 .
30 There , 50 or so textile mills produce what is widely acknowledged to be the finest wool cloth in the world .
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