Example sentences of "it is [adv] generally [verb] that " 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 recommended that anything else is kept with a Red-tail , as they can be very territorial and aggressive . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It is not generally appreciated that very many settlement sites exhibit earthworks of several periods . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 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 . |
| 11 | But it is surely generally accepted that some level of participation is necessary whatever approach to systems design and development is adopted . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It is now generally recognized that the attempt to analyse consciousness in terms of behaviour amounted to flying in the face of the facts . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It is now generally acknowledged that Helicobacter pylori infection is the major cause of antral gastritis . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | However , it is now generally accepted that β-thromboglobulin levels are elevated in diabetics ( Davis et al , 1979 ) and further evidence came from a large study of β-thromboglobulin and platelet factor 4 in diabetics compared to age- and sex-matched controls ( Betteridge et al , 1981 ) . |
| 21 | Using this method conflicting findings have been reported in studies of diabetic subjects ( Dollery et al , 1979 ; Davis et al , 1981 ) , and it is now generally accepted that there may be considerable non-specific interference in assaying this metabolite in plasma which might explain the different findings ( Greaves & Preston , 1982 ; Dollery et al , 1983 ) . |
| 22 | It is now generally accepted that this meeting was the first step on the unpremeditated road which led to the establishment of the London Veterinary College . |
| 23 | It is now generally accepted that nurture — the environment in which a child grows up — is a more important factor than heredity when it comes to the intelligence of the resulting adult human being . |
| 24 | It is now generally accepted that , about a lightyear from the Sun , far beyond the orbit of Pluto , there is a belt of at least 10 million comets , collectively known as the Oort Cloud , after the great Dutch astronomer Ian Oort . |
| 25 | It is now generally accepted that there is a division of labour within the brain , with different parts of the brain carrying out different functions . |
| 26 | It is now generally accepted that Jesus 's mother was the sister of Elizabeth , the mother of John . |
| 27 | 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 ’ ) . |
| 28 | 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 ) . |
| 29 | It is now generally accepted that the universe evolves according to well-defined laws . |
| 30 | We will not assign these spectra in detail , but it is now generally accepted that the ruthenium complex has three units held together only by metal-metal bonding , whereas the iron complex has bridging CO ligands , as well as many terminal ones . |