Example sentences of "[be] widely [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has also been widely assumed that members do not want to involvement in the policy-making process and that they join the party primarily for personal or social reasons . |
| 2 | It had been widely expected that President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali , whose distaste for capital punishment for politically motivated crimes had been well publicized , would commute the death sentences . |
| 3 | It does not seem to be widely realised that words have shape and colour and rhythm as well as meaning . |
| 4 | Workplace stress is on the increase , and ironically it 's now being widely recognized that companies own efforts to cut staff and become leaner and fitter , must take part of the blame . |
| 5 | These days , it is widely assumed that monitoring of firms by close , caring banks is a better way to run things than the arms-length institutional ownership of America and Britain . |
| 6 | It is widely assumed that restoration of intestinal continuity inevitably results in a better quality of life for the patient , but that is not necessarily the case . |
| 7 | It is widely assumed that Elders will not bother to hold on to any Scottish shares and its 23.7 per cent stake will be acquired and used as the springboard for a bid . |
| 8 | Former Irish international Dr Geraldine Barniville from Dublin has been nominated as the new president but it is understood that Ulster 's Billy Bell and Paddy McAuley the outgoing treasurer and secretary will not be standing for election. , It is widely acknowledged that Paddy McIlroy , past president of Ulster , and the outgoing Irish vice-president , made a major contribution in drafting the new constitution and by-laws . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , it is widely recognized that exchange rate adjustments within the EMS will only become less frequent if the economic performance and the economic policies of member countries are converging and consistent . |
| 10 | On the other side , it is widely believed that Kerr 's ambitions are backed by money belonging to Jack Gillespie , a director of Rangers . |
| 11 | It is widely believed that people become less productive as they get older . |
| 12 | It is widely believed that Scuderia Italia will merge with Minardi next year . |
| 13 | It is widely believed that Mr Holmes a Court , the so called Perth predator , is keen to buy Dalgety 's extensive Australian land interests . |
| 14 | It is widely observed that patients with food intolerance often have candidiasis as well — and those whose main problem is Candida often turn out to have food sensitivities . |
| 15 | It is widely rumoured that Pillsbury and Ruth Carter Stevenson , an influential trustee of the National Gallery , did not get on , and also that several National Gallery staffers were , in the words of one curator , ‘ absolutely terrified ’ at the prospect of Pillsbury 's appointment , the general feeling being that ‘ heads would roll ’ in a grand sweep . |
| 16 | It is widely expected that bondholders will then be asked to convert some of their holdings into a new convertible preference share . |
| 17 | For example , it is widely held that Egas Moniz was stimulated into developing the now largely abandoned technique of controlling psychological disorders by the use of psychosurgery after hearing about the ‘ beneficial ’ side-effects of frontal lobe removal in chimpanzees . |
| 18 | It is widely conjectured that Stalin himself planned the murder of Kirov . |
| 19 | It was widely noted that Bush 's euphoric statements proclaiming the transformation of Europe contrasted sharply with Havel 's sombre assessment of Czechoslovakia 's progress in the past year . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , it was widely suspected that Thomas 's race was an important consideration in his nomination , for not only was it politically expedient to maintain a black representative on the Supreme Court , but to have secured confirmation from the Democrat-controlled Senate for a white male conservative would have been almost impossible . |
| 21 | It was widely believed that Exxon did not intend to restart the cleanup operation in the spring , for which it was condemned by environmentalists , the Alaskan state government and the local population of the Alaskan town of Valdez . |
| 22 | It was widely believed that middle and low-level government employees accepted gifts in return for favours . |
| 23 | It was widely believed that Churchill had been converted to the European cause during the war , and that he had kept the flame of union alight . |
| 24 | With no likelihood of progress in the dispute , it was widely believed that Yeltsin had cancelled his visit in order to avoid a failure to achieve progress on the issue similar to that which had accompanied the visit by the then Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev in April 1991 . |
| 25 | Despite official claims to the contrary it was widely believed that China was maintaining its supplies to the Khmers Rouges and considerable stockpiles of arms were thought to have been accumulated . |
| 26 | The trial was expected to continue for some time and it was widely believed that evidence would be given which would incriminate politicians still active . |
| 27 | Göring added that it was widely believed that Poland intended to annex East Prussia and Danzig in the near future . |
| 28 | It was widely believed that North Korea had the capacity — or was on the verge of achieving it — to produce a nuclear weapon . |
| 29 | It was widely believed that Paul Muite would be persuaded by younger members of the party to become the fourth FORD candidate . |
| 30 | It was widely believed that Eleanor Coade had invented a new process for making artificial stone . |