Example sentences of "[am/are] generally [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wages for unskilled labour were the lowest , being significantly below even shop workers who are generally recognised to be among the most intensely exploited ( except that their hours were much longer ) . |
| 2 | The terminals are generally connected to the central computer by telecommunications links . |
| 3 | This applies particularly when the bricks come from Ryarsh 's three complementary ranges — Sandlime , Flintlime , and the Village range , which are generally manufactured to Class 3 strength , which means they are load-bearing . |
| 4 | There are generally recognized to be two major sources of error when converting vector maps ( either paper or digital ) into gridded or raster format . |
| 5 | Very few cases are brought and those which are generally relate to nuisances who can be dealt with in other ways . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Alcohol and tobacco are generally assumed to be products with a very inelastic demand . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | The birds are generally referred to as doves in the modern literature , but as Nilsson points out there is often little evidence of species . |
| 10 | The " mothers " , as they are generally referred to , are women who until a few years ago had never spoken in public , never organized a campaign . |
| 11 | The former are generally referred to as kelims or flatweaves , and are normally the cheaper and less frequently encountered of the two types . |
| 12 | Flatwoven rugs are generally referred to as kelims ( or gelims ) , which is a Turkish word meaning prayer rug . |
| 13 | In prayer-rug designs this arch-shaped form is usually found at the top end of the composition , although it is sometimes employed at both ends in what are generally referred to as " double-ended " prayer rugs ( pls. 17 and 18 ) . |
| 14 | Russian Turkomans are normally marketed as either Bokharas or Beshirs , depending on their design , and those made in Afghanistan are generally referred to as Afghans or Bokharas , although they may be named after the specific weaving village or tribe ( Kundous , Beshir , etc ) . |
| 15 | The former are generally referred to as Mori Bokharas , and the latter usually marketed as Mori Kashans . |
| 16 | The aim of the paper is to initiate a discussion of the economic advantages of tapping the resources of the mother tongue of those minority adults , who are generally referred to as South Asian minorities . |
| 17 | Courses leading to qualifications up to and including A level or its equivalent are generally referred to as non-advanced further education ( NAFE ) ; qualifications above A-level standard as advanced further education ( AFE ) . |
| 18 | State or public sector schemes are generally referred to as ‘ pay-as-you-go ’ , whereas private funds are generally externally funded . |
| 19 | Legitimacy … does not deal so much with whether activities of government are lawful as whether they accord with what are generally perceived to be or what have for long been held up to be , the fundamental principles of the constitution according to which government is or ought to be conducted . |
| 20 | They can be stated in a number of different ways , but they are generally accepted to be : |
| 21 | Immunological abnormalities are generally accepted to be involved in the pathogenesis of ulcerative colitis . |
| 22 | So these problems and similar ones to them are generally led to an abandonment I suppose , or a lack of interest in feat in a pure feature analysis view to how we build up and recognise objects . |
| 23 | Attitudes are generally seen to be more stable , opinions more variable , but this is an entirely imposed language rather than a reflection of some inherent stability . |
| 24 | Example In an essay on an eighteenth-century play , which has argued that the women in the play are generally seen to be a source of disruption or confusion , you could conclude by asking whether women are general sources of disruption , broadly understood , in eighteenth-century drama . |
| 25 | The semantic relations encoded in ‘ Motherese ’ are generally limited to the restricted set of relations which the children themselves use . |
| 26 | One consequence is that the thought patterns of primitive society , being felt to lack a scientific approach , are generally felt to be beyond the bounds of reason . |
| 27 | ‘ those who are generally felt to be of high status locate science less in the journals than in their own and other peoples ’ heads ’ . |
| 28 | Partnerships between education and business are generally believed to be good , useful and worthwhile . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The effects of serotonin on gastrointestinal motor function are generally believed to be mediated through myenteric plexus neurons . |