Example sentences of "he [be] generally [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is generally featured peering languidly into a pool , however divests the situation of its seriousness by considering his metamorphosis . |
| 2 | He is generally believed to be commemorated in the place name Caradon , which formerly applied only to the hill around which he held sway but now covers a complete District of South East Cornwall . |
| 3 | He is generally recognized as the historian of athletics in the Royal Air Force . |
| 4 | He is generally regarded as one of the best two or three fast medium bowlers in English annals . |
| 5 | He is generally fed microfeed with sugar beet , and he loves carrots and sugar , but he detests his feed being mixed . |
| 6 | To a disenchanted eye , Nash seems not quite the genius he is generally thought to have been : he was a notorious jerry-builder who pillaged and cheapened classical motifs as does the builder of the modern executive home . |
| 7 | From his self-imposed exile in America , the Lebanese Maronite poet Khalil Gibran — whose verse and drawings have an uncanny similarity to the work of William Blake — was moved to write an angry , ferocious poem quite out of keeping with the gentle , philosophical message for which he is generally remembered : |
| 8 | He was particularly vulnerable on the latter point , for he was generally believed to carry his wife around secretly on his travels in a box or coffin . |
| 9 | Even though Owen was intelligent ( he could impress his teachers on occasions ) , he was generally regarded as a ‘ problem child ’ with special needs . |
| 10 | Gavin Dalzell of Lesmahagow copied his machine in 1846 and passed on the details to so many people that for more than fifty years he was generally regarded as the inventor of the bicycle . |
| 11 | He was generally called Jabbie or Joe-boy . |
| 12 | His wealth made him one of the principal paymasters of the English Catholic community , and in political circles he was generally seen as the leader of Catholic opinion . |
| 13 | He was generally perceived as a charismatic liberal , but an unconventional and inconsistent one . |
| 14 | On June 21 he returned his campaign to policy specifics , an area where he was generally perceived to be stronger than his rival candidates , with a detailed reformulation of his economic proposals . |
| 15 | The Encomiast 's tale that he was born to another woman and smuggled into Ælfgifu of Northampton 's bed at least implies that he was generally recognised as son of Cnut and Ælfgifu , and Adam calls Gorm the Old Hardecnudth Vurm , which if correct makes it feasible to believe that Cnut named Swegen and Harold from his father and grandfather , and Harthacnut , evidently the third-born , after his great-grandfather . |
| 16 | He features in Kirby 's Wonderful Museum ( p. 34 , vol. 4 , 1820 edition ) where he is described as having been ‘ tall and very slender ’ and ‘ as he was never seen in company , or speaking with any person , his real name and character remained enveloped in profound mystery , so that he was generally known by no other appellation than the ‘ Walking Rushlight ' ’ ' . |
| 17 | James — ‘ Deaf ’ Burke , or the ‘ Deaf 'Un ’ as he was generally known was born in Westminster , London on 8th December 1809 , and became orphaned in early childhood . |
| 18 | He was generally known as an Anabaptist , but though he ridiculed infant baptism he insisted that adult or believer 's baptism was also unnecessary . |
| 19 | Seven years later a cluster of names in a rental follows that of Ellice Hanmer , as he was generally known in his new parish . |
| 20 | Those of us who remember the horrid cruelties applied to Frank Williams in the days when he was generally considered ‘ Wanker Williams ’ , an outsider with no chance to make good , can remember how it felt for Emerson to climb down off his mountain and to try to make good in a changing and by then wholly different world . |
| 21 | The prostitutes , all aged between eighteen and twenty-three , apparently became La Tour 's perks and he was generally expected to join in the fun as well . |