Example sentences of "was generally [verb] [prep] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I became famous ( or notorious ) for my diary , which I kept up assiduously , and which was generally believed to be full of scandal of the sort the school authorities would not like to see appear in the newspapers . |
| 2 | There was no time to write a libretto from scratch , so Guardasoni proposed an adaptation of Metastasio 's La clemenza di Tito ( the Clemency of Titus ) which was generally felt to be suitable for the occasion . |
| 3 | Although not a great speaker , Gore was generally considered to be hard-working and conscientious and was renowned as an expert in arms control , defence and foreign policy matters . |
| 4 | This was generally considered to be brilliant , although it seems to me that it was as much my father 's achievement as my own , and probably perceived unconsciously by him as such . |
| 5 | While it was generally considered to be difficult to prove bribery charges against those in receipt of such payments — the success of such a charge would require specific evidence of mutual benefit — the sums received by individual politicians were large enough to have contravened the Political Funds Control Law which restricted the size of political donations and required those over 1,000,000 yen to be registered . |
| 6 | Bezymianny was a rather obscure volcano ( the name itself means ‘ no name ’ ) before the eruption and was generally thought to be extinct . |
| 7 | The first document , Curriculum 11–16 , was generally thought to be useful . |
| 8 | I certainly had a good time and judging by the sweat on everyone 's brow as they worked to perfect their routines I think it was generally thought to be enjoyable and worthwhile . |
| 9 | Various walls in the corrie were climbed on and the rock was generally found to be reasonable , but quite loose in places . |
| 10 | The exercise of statutory powers was closely scrutinized and any procedural or substantive defect was generally found to be sufficient to nullify a decision . |