Example sentences of "it [be] [adv] supposed that " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is generally supposed that while Paisley , Beattie , Foster , and such people wish to maintain the evangelical ethos , the younger generation of Peter Robinson , Jim Wells , Jim Allister , and others recruited through the Queen 's University branch of the DUP want to create a mass popular party by playing down the evangelical elements in the party platform and by pursuing more respectable methods of political action . |
| 2 | Although it is generally supposed that the first truly mechanical escapement was of the verge-and-foliot type found in various church clocks throughout Europe , the earliest escapement of which we have definite detailed knowledge is that of the clock designed for the Abbey of St Albans c.1328 by Richard of Wallingford ( c.1292–1336 ) , the son of a blacksmith , who became Abbot in 1327 . |
| 3 | It is generally supposed that this is because he is on his death-bed , and his gift of making conversation has already ebbed away . |
| 4 | ( ’ Subjective' here has nothing to do with ethical subjectivism ; it is generally supposed that the existence of this subjective obligation is an objective fact . ) |
| 5 | It is generally supposed that it was at Thurgarton . |
| 6 | Culyer and Brazier ( 1988 ) described the Enthoven model but argued that ‘ since it is usually supposed that the competition for contracts would not be restricted to NHS institutions we prefer the term ‘ provider markets ’ to the more usual ‘ internal markets ’ ’ . |
| 7 | It is often supposed that the steam does something because it is steam . |
| 8 | For it is often supposed that his attitude towards women stands in stark contrast to that of the surrounding society . |
| 9 | It is sometimes supposed that if this is so , there can be no rationality in ethics . |
| 10 | For instance , it is commonly supposed that trees and shrubs colour better on acid soils than they do on alkaline . |
| 11 | It was generally supposed that in the days of wheel spinning six spinners were needed to keep a weaver at work , and the area around the centres of cloth manufacture within which spinning was put out was so much more extensive than that in which the weaving was undertaken that spinning was done " almost everywhere " . |
| 12 | It was not supposed that they dealt at arm 's length . |