Example sentences of "[pers pn] is [adv] generally [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 If we wonder why it is not generally recognised that there are , besides verbal propositions composed of words , mental ones composed of ideas , an explanation is readily available : ‘ it is very difficult to treat of them asunder .
2 It is not generally realized that he did write on such topics , though it must be admitted that a frontal attack on the factory system was not likely to be poetically successful .
3 It is not generally realized how rapidly the number of project manager-team relationships increase with the size of the team .
4 It is not generally realised what a tiny percentage of our current dollar bill would be sufficient to buy another 100,000 houses ' worth of dollar timber .
5 It is not generally emphasised in textbooks , however , how very widespread these sediments are .
6 It is not generally recommended that anything else is kept with a Red-tail , as they can be very territorial and aggressive .
7 It is not generally known that among the sculptured panels at the top of the Library facade , there is one featuring two children fingerspelling at each other the first two letters of the alphabet .
8 It is not generally known that nearly 90% of the 3,500 or so complaints received yearly are cleared up by the secretariat without the need for disciplinary action .
9 IT IS NOT generally known nowadays , that the marking gauge — and mortise gauge — is traditionally a left-handed tool .
10 It is not generally known that there are more than 1,000 applications a week at the Home Office for political asylum from new arrivals .
11 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 .
12 However , it is not generally considered practicable , if no suitable person can be found , to appoint a district judge , and in practice the Official Solicitor should be approached .
13 It is not generally appreciated that very many settlement sites exhibit earthworks of several periods .
14 The generally accepted dates for these campaigns are 817/1414 and 818/1415 ; and it is likewise generally accepted that the second resulted in a much more decisive Ottoman success than the first .
15 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 .
16 But it is surely generally accepted that some level of participation is necessary whatever approach to systems design and development is adopted .
17 The ‘ Little Bang ’ Theory can not be completely dismissed , but it is today generally discounted .
18 It has been calculated that , at some point in her life , one woman in five will be infected with this parasite and it is also generally accepted that the organism is almost exclusively sexually transmitted .
19 It is also generally accepted that during the fourth century not only were units of a field army serving in Britain but also regular troops were acting as urban garrisons .
20 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 .
21 But it is still generally recognized as a Methodist village , and Hannah is counted among the worshippers at the chapel who are , in the main , elderly .
22 It is still generally known as the gateway to the Emmental .
23 Much of the heat has by now gone out of these arguments , and it is fairly generally accepted , first that college librarians should be appointed on teaching scales and given academic status by nature of their work , and secondly that the work of a college librarian implies the librarian 's own active participation as a librarian in the college 's educational programme .
24 It is now generally recognized that the attempt to analyse consciousness in terms of behaviour amounted to flying in the face of the facts .
25 It is now generally acknowledged that a man is usually at the peak of sexual potency and performance around the early twenties ; thereafter a slow decline sets in .
26 Such courses were initially based on the notion of management as something one person does to others ; but the management of a school , it is now generally acknowledged , is a process in which all members of the school 's staff are , in different ways , engaged : it is a multi-directional process .
27 It is now generally acknowledged that Helicobacter pylori infection is the major cause of antral gastritis .
28 It is now generally realised that unless something is done to reduce accidents , other measures taken for the good of a nation 's health are being undermined .
29 It is now generally applied to those who have neglected themselves over a long period of time or when a person has become seriously ill but is refusing hospital admission .
30 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 .
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