Example sentences of "widely [vb pp] [prep] be [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was widely recognized to be a very important contribution to quantum theory , and it won him the Nobel Prize in 1922 . |
| 2 | Also replaced in the ensuing Cabinet reshuffle was Petroleum Resources Minister Jibril Aminu , who was widely expected to be a candidate in the presidential elections scheduled for Dec. 5 . |
| 3 | The Dutch are widely expected to be the first to try it . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , although possessing a less extensive grant of power , the Commission was widely expected to be the dynamic element in further moves towards integration . |
| 5 | In December he supported the formation of a new Moslem organization ( the Association of Moslem Intellectuals ) , which united a broad spectrum of Moslem interests and was widely expected to be the basis of support for his candidacy in 1993 [ see p. 37919 ] . |
| 6 | The next step in that process is widely expected to be the sale next week of Cockburn 's of Leith , a wine merchant subsidiary . |
| 7 | Comet IRAS-Araki-Alcock is widely claimed to be the first comet discovered by an orbiting observatory — the Infrared Astronomical Satellite , IRAS . |
| 8 | Because it makes public that which should stay hidden , pornography is widely considered to be a form of sexual propaganda . |
| 9 | Although involved in organising , promoting and initiating a range of small business related schemes , the London Enterprise Agency sees the London Enterprise Programme as its ‘ most notable activity … widely considered to be the best of its kind ’ ( London Enterprise Agency Annual Report , December , 1984 ) . |
| 10 | He was known to have developed a huge network of patronage , and was widely considered to be the most powerful of the opposition candidates . |
| 11 | The regulation of these factors is widely considered to be the way in which the small intestine adapts to nutritional demands . |
| 12 | AT 30 , Daldry is widely considered to be an inspired choice as the artistic director-designate of the Royal Court , London 's embattled home of new writing . |
| 13 | Bush 's public and deliberate linking of the " occupied " West Bank with East Jerusalem was greeted with near unanimous condemnation in Israel , where Israeli control over the whole of the " " eternal " capital " was widely considered to be an irreversible fact . |
| 14 | This was widely thought to be a good omen . |
| 15 | In the past it has taken great efforts by the Merseyside and Greater Manchester police to keep supporters apart in what is widely thought to be the most intense antagonism in the League . |
| 16 | The end-Ordovician regression is indeed widely thought to be the result of the growth of a Saharan ice sheet . |
| 17 | THE recent rise in global-mean surface air temperature is widely thought to be the result of increasing atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases , but there are discrepancies between the predicted response of the atmosphere to this radiative forcing and the observed temperature changes . |
| 18 | The solution has been found by submitting the agreement to English law , widely thought to be the fairest and most flexible , and therefore used for many international transactions . |
| 19 | This reinforced findings reported elsewhere that Motorways are wrongly but widely thought to be the most dangerous type of road . |
| 20 | This was widely thought to be the factor which attracted Iranians to the Pasdaran and others , young and old , to the baeej , or volunteer corps . |
| 21 | Linear chains of oceanic volcanoes , such as the Hawaiian and Society Islands , that occur when lithospheric plates drift over a ‘ hotspot ’ , are now widely thought to be the surface manifestation of mantle plumes , columns of hot rock that rise buoyantly from the deep mantle . |
| 22 | At the beginning of the 17th century , woman was widely agreed to be the weaker of the two sexes . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The first step in the modernization of TDC was to appoint someone to improve what was widely acknowledged to be an unacceptable situation . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | There , 50 or so textile mills produce what is widely acknowledged to be the finest wool cloth in the world . |
| 27 | However , the five committed themselves to remaining within the party , Charles , a former deputy leader of the JLP and widely acknowledged to be the leader of the dissident group , in effect mounting a leadership challenge . |
| 28 | Only the defeat of Britain — now widely presumed to be a matter of course — stood in the way , it seemed , of that final victory , and the intoxication of the triumph over the French mingled with a widespread desire , whipped up by almost hysterical anti-British hate propaganda , for the total destruction of Britain . |
| 29 | ICI has just developed a new composite widely touted to be a likely contender ; it is now undergoing clinical trials at Liverpool University . |
| 30 | The site of acetylation of 5-ASA was widely assumed to be the liver , but it has recently been shown that the human colonic epithelial cell is capable of acetylating 5-ASA , and that N-acetyltransferase activity is present in the cytosol . |