Example sentences of "[was/were] widely [verb] that [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was widely believed that all restrictions on economic relations would be removed once an appropriate formula of agreement could be devised which would be acceptable to nationalist sensitivities . |
| 2 | It was widely believed that inexperienced magistrates were taken in by false evidence and relied too heavily on interpreters and clerks . |
| 3 | It was widely felt that smaller firms offered a better service for nationally-based positions . |
| 4 | It was widely understood that these areas of disagreement were directly attributable to the relative strengths of the superpowers in different categories of weapons . |
| 5 | It was widely reported that armed police had besieged the state-owned Jerada colliery , which had been occupied for 10 days in late December 1988-early January 1989 by 400 miners . |