Example sentences of "be generally [verb] [prep] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this explanation is not sufficient to explain the phenomenon : there is a definite difference between , shall we say , an amoeba and a crystal , yet the crystal grows and ( in a very limited sense ) reproduces — two activities that are generally assumed to be characteristic of living material . |
| 2 | Controlled processes are generally assumed to be voluntary , flexible and capacity limited while automatic ones are highly efficient , unavoidable , resistant to modification , not subject to capacity limitations and able to occur without awareness ( LaBerge , 1981 ) . |
| 3 | Immunological abnormalities are generally accepted to be involved in the pathogenesis of ulcerative colitis . |
| 4 | Such enzymes do exist — they are known as reverse transcriptases — but they are generally believed to be exclusive to RNA viruses , which need them to transcribe their RNA genes into DNA for replication inside cells . |
| 5 | Partnerships between education and business are generally believed to be good , useful and worthwhile . |
| 6 | Many of these straits are noted for strong tidal currents , but although such currents may assist in moving away the debris of erosion , they are generally held to be impotent as a cause of marked marine erosion , at least of those which outcrop in this locality . |
| 7 | We should not underestimate the power of official systems of classification of children , even when they are generally held to be inadequate by those that work with them . |
| 8 | It has to provide the financial resources for at least a minimum number of services — defence , roads , education , income support , etc. — which are generally deemed to be necessary for the survival of any modern society . |
| 9 | Rational thought and behaviour are generally thought to be dependent in some ways upon an ability to reason logically . |
| 10 | C. oncophora and C. curticei are generally considered to be mild pathogens in calves and lambs respectively although in some studies they have been associated with inappetence and poor weight gains . |
| 11 | Road conditions in the county are generally considered to be inadequate and the construction of the remaining Maidstone-Ashford section of the M20 is programmed for completion in 1991 . |
| 12 | But in that there is common ground with Psychiatry : people who believe that they themselves are God are generally considered to be insane . |
| 13 | All they are interested in — all they are generally permitted to be interested in — is whether they get a reasonable pension at the end of the day . |
| 14 | These remarks reveal the irresistible appeal of the playful cat even in an era when felines were generally considered to be evil and dangerous , and were being widely persecuted . |
| 15 | Cecil chose what is generally believed to be safe stock . |
| 16 | The proportion of false positive diagnoses with physical examination is generally accepted to be low . |
| 17 | If the ‘ upper class ’ is generally reckoned to be marginal or vestigial and the two principal classes are seen as ‘ middle ’ and ‘ working ’ then it is clear that the British ‘ class system ’ of popular ideology is not equivalent to a ruling class/dominated class dichotomy . |
| 18 | Two people who think they are disagreeing may , in fact , be talking about different things and would n't disagree if they were talking about the same thing , but it 's important to recognise that when the university and colleges talk about what they want to do about sexual harassment , they certainly imagine that a range of different forms of response are going to be appropriate to this range of different forms of behaviour , ranging from on the one hand education , encouraging people to think they have a right to protest and answer back , to giving them access to erm people who may mediate and persuade another person who they 're not making an impact on that their behaviour is unreasonable , to the most extreme disciplinary procedures against someone who 's behaving in a way which is generally thought to be unacceptable and who 's not prepared to desist . |
| 19 | The source of the mineralising fluids is generally thought to be Carboniferous shale basins adjacent to the carbonate plat-forms which host the mineralisation . |
| 20 | Although there is an operation for this purpose , called ventriculocordectomy , it is generally considered to be undesirable . |
| 21 | Although the procedure is generally considered to be safe , complications related to cannulation , contrast injection , and sphincterotomy may occur , and include cholangitis , haemorrhage , perforation , and pancreatitis . |
| 22 | For soft X-ray attenuation is generally considered to be significant . |
| 23 | Not only have food costs been above average , but the labour turnover has been relatively high , which is a little odd since Fred is generally considered to be genial and well liked ( though we must add that we have found no evidence that this is true as far as his staff are concerned ) . |
| 24 | A valve , or vacuum tube , looks like a typical electric light bulb , it requires a large amount of power for its operation , generates a considerable amount of heat and is generally found to be unreliable in operation . |
| 25 | This exclusion is generally held to be applicable when a criminal prosecution is in prospect . |
| 26 | Curriculum reform , whether it is centrally determined or based on local or in-school planning , is generally held to be impossible unless it is firmly based on a plan for public examinations . |
| 27 | It is enough to recall that Ricardo 's labour theory of value , on which it depends , is generally held to be fallacious in its assertion that the price of goods or services is solely determined by the amount of socially necessary labour required to produce or provide them , and so ignores the cost of other inputs and the effect of demand . |
| 28 | I became famous ( or notorious ) for my diary , which I kept up assiduously , and which was generally believed to be full of scandal of the sort the school authorities would not like to see appear in the newspapers . |
| 29 | There was no time to write a libretto from scratch , so Guardasoni proposed an adaptation of Metastasio 's La clemenza di Tito ( the Clemency of Titus ) which was generally felt to be suitable for the occasion . |
| 30 | Although not a great speaker , Gore was generally considered to be hard-working and conscientious and was renowned as an expert in arms control , defence and foreign policy matters . |