Example sentences of "generally [adj] to " in BNC.

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31 At 1,000 metres , and with heavy fertilisation , yields of 10,000 kg dry matter /ha have been obtained and while adequate summer rainfall may favour grass growth , production is more generally likely to be at the level suggested in Table 2 , and a long wintering period is a major constraint .
32 Although memory that an arousing slide has been presented is generally likely to be extremely good , there is evidence that the types of details remembered about such a slide may be different from those remembered from more mundane slides .
33 In the early ( still Maoist ) days the Western press was generally hostile to China 's aspirations .
34 The philosophers may have been generally unsympathetic to what they saw as an encroachment on their territory , while the sociologists have done their best to incorporate or adapt Mannheim 's project to fit with a paradigm in which they were already working .
35 The women in the ranks were generally accustomed to hard manual labour with scythes and ploughs and would have had the physical strength and tenacity to wield weapons .
36 Playing against Celtic , however , is generally supposed to be difficult for someone who formerly captained the club and could not say that his regard for them ended on the day he was transferred .
37 The rapidly rising number of girls receiving middle and higher education , coinciding with the growth of urban bureaucratic and commercial activities , has led to a corresponding increase in the number entering clerical and professional or semi-professional employment , generally prior to marriage and temporary or permanent withdrawal from the labour force .
38 Such bonds are generally equal to about 5 per cent of the tender 's value .
39 Behaviour is generally closer to the optimal on the second repetition , even though there is considerable heterogeneity .
40 The economic recession around the world was not generally helpful to precious metal prices .
41 The techniques are more generally applicable to all areas of text recognition .
42 The Court acknowledged that third parties could accept treaty obligations informally , but found that Germany had not ‘ unilaterally assumed the obligations of the Convention ; or … manifested its acceptance of the conventional regime or … recognised it as being generally applicable to the delimitation of continental shelf areas . ’
43 These contain the agreed job descriptions and the qualifications generally applicable to them in each country .
44 The aim of this project is to investigate these problems and to come up with suggested methods of analysis which are generally applicable to complex surveys .
45 They have been thinking about the long-term future and have concluded that it will be very difficult to impose nuclear weapons on a population that is generally opposed to them .
46 There are many difficulties in getting supplies through to the zones and priority is given to medicines , not to contraceptives , Campesina combatants are generally opposed to using contraceptives for religious reasons and while women from urban areas may wish to adopt some form of birth control , it is not always available :
47 Although she argues mainly for process evaluation at whole-school level , her account is representative of a growing genre of writing on insider evaluation , which is generally opposed to the objectives approach .
48 The labour movement was generally unresponsive to this agitation until May 1920 , when — with Polish forces invading the Soviet Union — there was an enthusiastic response to the action of London dockers in refusing to load munitions onto the Jolly George , a ship bound for Poland .
49 Indeed , it is a concept that is generally blind to the very people who have done most of the work in such areas — agricultural workers .
50 The policy behind section 6 of the Sexual Offences Act is presumably that Parliament considered that a girl under 16 is generally unlikely to be sufficiently mature to realise the full implications of sexual intercourse ; so that her protection demands that a belief by a man under the age of 24 that she herself was over the age of 16 should not be only an honest but also a reasonable belief . ’
51 She was fully stretched preparing her classes , on a whole new range of subjects , marking her essays , researching Domestic Angels and Unfortunate Females , and making herself generally indispensable to the Department .
52 The dry eastern half of Britain is generally susceptible to significant periods of summer drought , when growth ceases in shallow-rooting plants such as grasses and clovers .
53 The total population estimates for Districts in 1981 , based on updates from the 1971 Census , were generally accurate to within two per cent , but the error was in excess of five per cent in some cases ( Thatcher , 1985 ) .
54 Young sculptors seem generally indifferent to its lures and so it is to veterans in the field that one must look for nourishment .
55 As glycosylation is generally detrimental to crystallization , sCD2 was expressed in a lectin-resistant mutant of the Chinese hamster ovary cell line , Lec3.2.8.1 ( ref. 27 ) , resulting in a secreted glycoprotein with oligosaccharides ( predominantly Man 5 GlcNAc 2 ) that are amenable to deglycosylation by endoglycosidase H ( ref.25 ) .
56 So far , section 4.4 has dealt with issues which are generally familiar to sociolinguists working in British , American or European urban communities .
57 The LEA had argued that if a particular type of educational provision was generally available to children of the applicant 's age in their schools , then it was not a special educational provision .
58 ( 1 ) Why was not amplified vibration generally available to those few people who were likely to benefit ? ( 2 ) Was James Yates really the very first person in the world to think about and use it ?
59 These shears are not generally available to the public , so take this opportunity to acquire a pair now .
60 San Diego , California-based , Xcelerated Systems Inc says it will port its X-Windows-based Mac-on-Unix software Liken to IBM 's RS/6000 boxes , intending to make it generally available to IBM 's worldwide customer base in the first quarter of 1993 .
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