Example sentences of "is generally [verb] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While Huntington has identified much of what is generally understood as conservative thought there is one aspect , which is of particular importance for our task , which he seems to underemphasize . |
| 2 | The return to ‘ free markets ’ by 1955 is generally viewed as permissive in the sense that it resulted from the removal of the remainder of war and postwar restrictions . |
| 3 | The state and its machinery is generally viewed as beneficent in this context . |
| 4 | Olivier 's performance in this role is generally regarded as somewhat flattering . |
| 5 | Any additive given an ‘ E ’ number is generally regarded as safe to use . |
| 6 | It has won greater favour in the US than in Britain where it is generally regarded as conceding too much to a particular , and somewhat incoherent , philosophical system . |
| 7 | The carriage of goods for a subsidiary or for a holding company and for other companies which are subsidiaries of the same holding company is generally regarded as own account for these purposes . |
| 8 | While some behaviour , such as violence against the defenceless or excessive exploitation of the weak is generally regarded as unacceptable , there are many grey areas . |
| 9 | The importance which Ellis laid upon the drafting and promulgation of such rules is generally regarded as one of his major contributions to the civilizing of Texas prisons . |
| 10 | It goes without saying that his accomplishments did not match his campaign rhetoric — taxes were increased , the state budget more than doubled while he was in office and there were no significant reductions in the size of the state workforce yet his ‘ record in Sacramento is generally regarded as favorable ’ . |
| 11 | Language understanding is generally regarded as being of greater importance than generation , since understanding requires the recognition of many paraphrases for the same command or information , whereas generation may be satisfied with the production of just one . |
| 12 | Whilst the student grant contains a fixed amount for housing , it is generally regarded as well below market rates that , of course , vary according to area . |
| 13 | ‘ Art ’ music , for example , is generally regarded as by nature complex , difficult , demanding ; ‘ popular ’ music then has to be defined as ‘ simple ’ , ‘ accessible ’ , ‘ facile ’ . |
| 14 | Audit of general practitioner services is generally regarded as desirable , but funding is scarce . |
| 15 | The blood loss — which can last a week or so — is generally regarded as tolerable and there are no unpleasant side-effects . |
| 16 | ( Like tragedy , its " sublime " sister art , the " Old " ( Aristophanic ) Comedy of classical Athens is generally regarded as having originated in the worship of Dionysus . |
| 17 | However , PCR is expensive and time consuming , and is generally regarded as unsuitable for the mass screening of clinical samples . |
| 18 | The expression of Oct-1 is generally regarded as ubiquitous and our results agree with this , although the relative amount of product appears to vary slightly between RNA samples ( Figure 4a ) . |
| 19 | Albert Graf , one of the founders , is generally recognized as being the first breeder of the type we would know today . |
| 20 | This is generally recognized as still an upmarket sector but is growing by about 5 per cent per year . |
| 21 | The indiscriminate over-suppression of feelings is generally condemned as unhealthy . |
| 22 | Community policing continues to be afforded low priority and prestige within the police force , where it is generally characterised as ‘ social work ’ or not ‘ real ’ policing ( Fielding , 1991:170 ) . |
| 23 | ‘ Surveys have shown that the added value gained by small companies from the audit is generally perceived as poor . ’ |
| 24 | Fundamental to British education is the aim to help all children achieve their full potential , and this is generally seen as involving building on the strengths children bring with them to schools . |
| 25 | Locate in Scotland , the agency charged with luring foreign multinationals to set up in Scotland , is generally seen as competing with the Welsh Development Agency and the Irish Development Authority to secure these coveted new tenants . |
| 26 | The significance of autonomy ( or rather the threat of its loss ) in relation to crime control is generally recognised because of its association with imprisonment . |
| 27 | In men the signs and symptoms of gonorrhoea will appear after the incubation period , which is generally accepted as being between two and ten days . |
| 28 | Vibration is generally accepted as being another word for energy . |
| 29 | Wine produced by this method is generally accepted as superior to sparklers produced by other less expensive means which are usually known as vin Mousseaux . |
| 30 | In the absence of any accretion , this is generally accepted as being an upper limit to the age of the pulsar , indicating that the pulsar is young compared with other globular cluster pulsars . |