Example sentences of "generally agreed [that] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last year , at the annual meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund , it was generally agreed that the US deficit was less of a threat because it was on a downward path . |
| 2 | It is now generally agreed that the natural way of classifying organisms is hierarchical : that is , in a series of nested sets . |
| 3 | It was generally agreed that the churchyard of St Andrew 's was an exceptionally pleasant place . |
| 4 | Although psychics describe the aura differently ( according to their own level of psychic perception ) , it is generally agreed that the aura is composed of at least three layers or levels . |
| 5 | For many , this would be the natural choice anyway with or without government policy , and it is generally agreed that the ideals behind community care are good ones . |
| 6 | It is generally agreed that the conference market is growing by approximately 10 per cent per annum . |
| 7 | It is generally agreed that the primitive mammals existing at that time were shrew-like creatures that lived by eating insects , and that the various groups of mammals that we see today , such as cats , rats , monkeys , whales , and horses , all evolved from this unpromising ancestor . |
| 8 | It was generally agreed that the right to communicate was rarely upheld in African countries . |
| 9 | It was generally agreed that the right to communicate was rarely upheld in African countries . |
| 10 | It is generally agreed that the advent of The Sunday Correspondent and The Independent On Sunday combined with falling circulation figures to precipitate a full-blown identity crisis at The Observer . |
| 11 | But however the relationship between these was seen , staff generally agreed that the developments in this aspect of the school 's provision were substantial and were in a direction of which they approved . |
| 12 | As Gillespie remarks , even in Edinburgh , the craft unions were able to see to it that only union men worked Linotypes , and " by the end of the century , it was generally agreed that the effect of machines on employment had not been so bad as feared " . |
| 13 | However , a good number of geographers have conducted recreational surveys in the last 20 years and a good deal of experience in the methods and techniques for conducting visitor surveys , in particular , has been obtained , so that it is now generally agreed that the following procedure should be followed : |
| 14 | It is now generally agreed that the concept of the work as a whole dates to early 1907 and possibly to the very month in which Picasso acquired his two heads.1 |
| 15 | It is generally agreed that the young long-term unemployed present particular and often unfamiliar problems in the field of social , educational and employment policy . |
| 16 | It was also generally agreed that the restrictions obscured the extent of the bombing campaign and the destruction in Iraq in the first weeks of the war . |
| 17 | Delegates were generally agreed that the ideal solution was to remove migrants ' reasons for wanting to leave . |
| 18 | In the late '20s and early '30s it was generally agreed that the two main treatment principles in coeliac disease were rest and diet . |
| 19 | It was generally agreed that the discussion session has been most valuable and that if possible at least one a year should be included in the Q.T. day programme . |
| 20 | This was an effective method of recognition , but it is generally agreed that the method works only for highly constrained tasks . |
| 21 | Similarly , it is generally agreed that the discourse-deictic words like moreover , besides , anyway , well , etc. , in utterance-initial position , do not make any difference to truth conditions ( Grice , 1961 , 1975 ; Wilson , 1975 ) . |
| 22 | It was generally agreed that the costs of cutting emissions would be economically impossible for them . |
| 23 | However , as long as this distinction is understood , it is generally agreed that the term ‘ pitch ’ is a convenient one to use informally to refer both to the subjective sensation and to the objectively measurable fundamental frequency . |