Example sentences of "[is] [adv] generally [vb pp] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps it is not generally known that David Farrington 's research on criminal careers suggests that the single most effective crime prevention policy is nursery education , which is denied to so many children in inner city areas . |
| 2 | It is also generally believed that people with cancer should not be massaged because cancer cells may start to spread to the rest of the body via the lymphatic system . |
| 3 | It is now generally accepted that Jesus 's mother was the sister of Elizabeth , the mother of John . |
| 4 | It is now generally accepted that FAP is fully penetrant ( polyps are present ) if the bowel is examined endoscopically . |
| 5 | Origin of Wings and Flight — It is now generally accepted that wings arose , perhaps in the early Devonian , as lateral expansions of the thoracic terga ( Hamilton , 197 z ) . |
| 6 | It is now generally accepted that Frolik was a plant designed to waste MI5 's resources while important spies remained undetected and to sow seeds of distrust between MI5 and the CIA . |
| 7 | It is now generally accepted that words prefixed by pett or pit ( similar to the Welsh and Cornish peth for ‘ thing ’ or ‘ piece ’ ) are of Pictish origin , as in places such as Pitlochry ( ‘ stony share ’ ) and Pittenweem ( ‘ share of the cave ’ ) . |
| 8 | It is now generally acknowledged that Helicobacter pylori infection is the major cause of antral gastritis . |
| 9 | It is now generally appreciated that Warner Bros had been particularly badly hit by the depression , largely because of the furious rate at which they had acquired movie-houses in the 1920s . |
| 10 | It is generally accepted , for example , that the Duzme Mustafa who opposed both Mehmed I and Murad II was executed in 825/1422 , though there is , admittedly , a story that he made good his escape to Kefe ; and it is likewise generally held that Ibrahim Pasa held the office of Grand Vezir uninterruptedly from his appointment in 824/1421 ( ? ) until his death in 832/1429 . |