Example sentences of "been widely " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our new 24 page full colour schools booklet has been widely acclaimed by teachers and pupils as the best AIDS resource they have ever seen . |
| 2 | Plastic ( upvc ) doors are the latest arrival on the scene , although they have been widely used on the continent for around 25 years . |
| 3 | Terry McLaughlin , the deputy editor of the Irish News , said some of the material shown to him was marked ‘ top secret ’ , the highest security classification , and went beyond the type of photo-montage material that has been widely leaked over the past month . |
| 4 | More specific economic policies , which have been widely discussed in recent years , fit within this tendency towards an autocratic state . |
| 5 | ENGLAND may not , as had been widely expected , play all their opening World Cup finals games in Sardinia next year . |
| 6 | The latest implementation , X Window Version 11 Release 3 , emerged a year ago , and has been widely adopted by Unix suppliers and by DEC , with Unix ( Ultrix ) and VAX VMS versions . |
| 7 | Their wins against France A , Romania and Italy in the continental competition , the Fira Championship , had been widely reported . |
| 8 | An unchanged cabinet had been widely expected , but only as a temporary measure because of the uncertainty caused by the courts . |
| 9 | The strike demand has been totally ignored by the Soviet media , although posters and leaflets about it have been widely distributed through voters ' clubs and associations , and other informal groups . |
| 10 | An unchanged cabinet had been widely expected , but only as a temporary measure because of the uncertainty caused by the courts . |
| 11 | It had been widely assumed that he would succeed Sir Robert Scholey when the chairman steps down . |
| 12 | In the West , poetry in translation from Eastern Europe has been widely disseminated in the past couple of decades . |
| 13 | Perhaps the internal strains within the authorities of a newly-reunited Germany — and the demands of public opinion in the old East — make any punitive measures against ex-Easterners peculiarly uncomfortable to promote at this time ( and Krabbe 's coach has been widely fingered as a luminary in East Germany 's old chemically-enhanced Sportkulur . ) |
| 14 | Mr Major 's sackings had been widely discounted in advance , and would have been more extensive but for Mr Chris Patten and Mr Francis Maude losing their parliamentary seats . |
| 15 | Mr Major 's appointment of two women to the Cabinet will certainly add a touch of glamour to his team , and had been widely expected . |
| 16 | Lambert has been widely criticised and there has been speculation that the controversy could lead to his departure from the FT . |
| 17 | He had been widely criticised for his handling of the Birmingham Six appeal in 1988 and has seen a number of earlier convictions overturned as police evidence was discredited in the Appeal Court . |
| 18 | He challenged Mrs Shephard to scrap Employment Action , which has been widely criticised as a dead-end scheme providing little or no training , with a proper community-based programme . |
| 19 | This last feature of the Nottinghamshire story , at least , is not entirely to be recommended — though it has , in fact , been widely repeated around the country . |
| 20 | Since our article appeared , a group of experts convened by the EC has concluded that ‘ Although clay minerals have been widely used since the Chernobyl accident , the Prussian Blue compounds have been found to be more effective and easier to administer ’ . |
| 21 | The term ‘ Personnel Management ’ has been widely used for 50 to 60 years to describe a range of activities , a body o& knowledge and a set of skills associated with the recruitment , administration and development of staff . |
| 22 | Lawrence Stone has put forward a highly influential argument that the eighteenth century saw the rise of the companionate marriage , and that affection between husband and wife was for the first time widely judged as important as economic considerations in marriage This argument has been widely challenged in relation to all classes by historians examining various kinds of evidence from the seventeenth century and earlier The belief that affection as an ideal of marriage was basically invented by the middle and upper classes in the eighteenth century has , however , led some critics into simplistic views . |
| 23 | The Reports of the various Working Groups , taken together , should allay these misgivings and reveal possibilities for collaboration across disciplines in ways that have not yet been widely recognised , with each making its distinctive contribution . |
| 24 | The ultimate ingenious compromise has , however , been widely accepted almost without comment . |
| 25 | Moving now to collective political responses , the problems of political protest by the peasantry have been widely discussed by Shanin ( 1973 ) , Alavi ( 1973 ) , Cohen et al. , eds ( 1979 ) . |
| 26 | In short , if life was always harder in the inner cities than elsewhere , and if conditions may temporarily have been alleviated by the impact of the welfare state and rising incomes , the last decade has been widely represented as a period of deterioration . |
| 27 | These fish are native to North America and in recent years have been widely used to stock artificial fisheries throughout Britain . |
| 28 | Both Age Concern England and Age Concern Scotland have produced wallet-sized fact cards which have been widely distributed and used . |
| 29 | The proposed regulation has been widely — and fairly — criticised for being generous in its gestures of environmental concern and for conservation , but lacking in the provision of specific means to carry them out . |
| 30 | Article 17 — the provision of aid to assist joint investment schemes by farmers for fodder production and for ‘ the improvement and equipping of pastures ’ , perhaps also drainage — could have implications in the LFAs in the UK but the existing , very similar provisions have not been widely taken up . |