Example sentences of "[coord] [was/were] generally [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trebuchets had a long range , and were generally constructed on site . |
| 2 | The main spar booms and other main structural members were sizable pieces of laminated wood , several inches square , and were generally boxed in on three sides by the plywood skin and shear webs . |
| 3 | The children were apprehensive , none more so than the newcomers who were still struggling with their English and were generally mystified by events . |
| 4 | The balance of the enquiries tended to be towards matters over which the department had control , but matters beyond their immediate control , such as the blackout mentioned above , often arose spontaneously and were generally given proper and serious consideration by the Senior Management Team . |
| 5 | They organised events for charity , gave concerts , formed clubs , and were generally beginning to become part of the administration . |
| 6 | They had semi-circular arched heads and were generally filled with alabaster or marble sheets or , sometimes , glass . |
| 7 | The bushy ones ( Order Dendroidea-dendroid graptolites ) are the more primitive , and were generally rooted to the sea floor . |
| 8 | They were , however , an all-White group , operating without directly involving parents and were generally committed to specialist care in the community . |
| 9 | Winners of the Treble Chance swooned at the sight of the cheque and were generally paraded to the Press and public as examples of how , at any minute , any humble citizen who had never had more than a day out at Blackpool could strike gold . |
| 10 | In practice , it was the Alliance that represented privilege , and was generally recognised to do so ( p 65–7 ) . |
| 11 | Nabiyev had led the republic 's Communist Party under Brezhnev , and was generally seen as a hard-line conservative . |
| 12 | This threat held serious consequences for the government of Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa , as support from the Takeshita faction had been an essential ingredient in his election to the leadership of the party , and was generally seen as essential to his continued survival in the post . |
| 13 | It was a contentious issue and was generally seen as an attempt by the party 's left wing to try to remove some Labour members of whom they disapproved . |
| 14 | There , passenger traffic was light , and was generally regarded as a nuisance . |
| 15 | Millichip told them that Johnson had not breached any of the club rules and was generally regarded as one of their most loyal players . |
| 16 | The funny thing was that on the day of the theft a man who often used to come and see us , and was generally regarded as a friend of the house , had been and invited the entire family Zina , myself , and both our son and daughter somewhere miles out of town to go and have a barbecue . |
| 17 | Compulsory education came to England and Wales in 1870 , and was generally implemented by 1880 ( by local by-laws ) . |
| 18 | The next day they charged Barry Moxton with the murder of his wife Mary and there was a picture on the front pages of him being led away with a blanket over his head and another of a policeman coming out of his mother 's house with a plastic bag that was said to contain his bloodstained and half-burned clothing , and a day or so after that Uncle Titch turned up in South Wales with his horse and cart where he said he 'd gone after a merry-go-round and did n't know what all the fuss was about , did n't know about any murder , did n't read the papers and was generally believed , at least by the people on the estate , because it was typical of Uncle Titch , and by that time the Queerfella who was queerer than any of them knew had made a full confession and it was all over bar the shouting and the trial , when he pleaded guilty and was sent down for life and everyone said he should have been hanged and pretended it had never once crossed their minds that it was Uncle Titch that done it . |
| 19 | He had twice held the Foreign Affairs portfolio since 1979 , and was generally considered loyal to Moi . |
| 20 | Bezymianny was a rather obscure volcano ( the name itself means ‘ no name ’ ) before the eruption and was generally thought to be extinct . |
| 21 | The barrel vault of semi-circular section was used for smaller buildings and was generally divided into rectangular compartments , with brick construction supported on wood centering and then filled in with concrete . |
| 22 | As approved by the conference , the 27-page Declaration laid down broad principles of environmentally-sound development , but was generally viewed as a somewhat unsatisfactory compromise between the widely differing wishes of various states . |
| 23 | The budget was seen as likely to have a harsh impact on the population but was generally regarded by aid donors as disappointing , containing no new measures to encourage investment or on restructuring of the produce-marketing boards . |