Example sentences of "it generally [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in libel law , it generally refers to dishonest writing or reporting — the publication of facts which are known to be false , or opinions which are not genuinely held . |
| 2 | In post-war years , the Balloons remained in the war-time green livery long after the single-deckers , and it generally assumed that the 25 Coronations of 1953 were intended to replace them . |
| 3 | The sword hardly varied in form from the twelfth to the fifteenth century : it generally had a two-edged blade , about 40 inches in length . |
| 4 | The basic skills can be learned but it generally take three to six months before the lessons have really taken hold . |
| 5 | Like rock music , it generally uses conventional harmonic progressions , melodic patterns and structural frameworks , and operates through imaginative combinations , elaborations and variations of these , rather than developing extended , through-composed forms . |
| 6 | It generally uses English words , but has a Celtic feel to it and reminds British churches of an important element in their tradition . |
| 7 | However , it would be useful to include in credit transactions a formal reminder to lender and customer that the decision to lend is not a matter of chance or prejudice , and ( as it generally does ) reflects the objective facts of the applicant 's ability and willingness to pay . |
| 8 | It has the responsibility of offering regular worship which is accessible to everyone in the land , in addition to providing for great local and national occasions , which it generally does well . |
| 9 | Whereas in Britain ( and Sweden ) , the state controlled the Church , feudalism had ended well before it generally disappeared elsewhere in Europe , and manhood suffrage had been extended to large sections of the population — unlike most continental countries where it was attained only at a later date , sometimes not until the early part of the present century . |
| 10 | Some use it generally to refer to those workers whose income is higher than most others . |
| 11 | I still think some of the things on it were OK , but it generally fell between any number of stools . ’ |
| 12 | The first term is always an unsettling time , and it generally takes a few weeks before students become familiar with each other , and work together effectively . |
| 13 | It generally takes six months to get a tribunal hearing and it 's FREE . |
| 14 | About half the throws hit their target and it generally takes eight direct hits and about five minutes to crack the egg open . |
| 15 | It generally takes between six and eight weeks to film a half-hour documentary for ‘ Wildlife on One ’ slot . |
| 16 | Romans and Jews mill confusingly in the background , like extras on a film set , and if one has any concrete image of them at all , it generally derives from one or another Hollywood spectacular — Pilate complete with Brooklynese accent . |
| 17 | ‘ It generally happens the other way round : it 's the mother who 's possessive of the son . |
| 18 | It generally occurs as fracture-hosted mineralisation in late Dinantian to early Namurian platform carbonates adjacent to Carboniferous shale-dominated basins . |
| 19 | Those who do use it generally make at least three or four substantial purchases on credit each year ( Appendix I , Table 7 ) . |
| 20 | It generally aids understanding to use short rather than long words . |
| 21 | For racing yachts it generally provides the lightest of all hulls and it is also the cheapest way of getting a ‘ one-off ’ design built . |
| 22 | Where the Act applies a reasonableness test it generally provides that a party can not exclude or restrict liability " except in so far as the term satisfies the test of reasonableness " ( ss2 , 3 , 4 ) or that liability can be excluded or restricted " but only in so far as the term satisfies the test of reasonableness " ( ss6 , 7 ) . |
| 23 | Codification has the advantage over other kinds of state power that it generally lasts . |
| 24 | In females it generally consists of a group of stout bristles which lies beneath the extended fore Wing and engages there in a retinaculum formed from a patch of hairs near the cubitus . |
| 25 | It generally consists of the temporal and modal exponents of the verb , which are ‘ the transitional element par excellence : They carry the lowest degree of CD within the non-theme and are the transition proper ’ ( Firbas , 1986 : 54 ) . |
| 26 | The normal debenture , however , is very different from a single mortgage of land. , It generally consists of one of a series of securities ranking pari passu with each other . |
| 27 | Since a good deal of writing is context-establishing in this way , it generally reveals higher levels of lexical density than does , for example , spoken conversation , which tends to be context-identifying , concerned with giving the sharper indexical focus to shared lexical information which form-words can provide . |
| 28 | It generally works by consensus , so a country can veto its conclusions . |
| 29 | It 's becoming common in many local authority , private and voluntary sector Homes because it generally works well both for residents and staff . |
| 30 | Under s1(1) of SGSA 1982 it would seem that an exchange contract comes within its purview since it generally applies to contracts where " one person transfers or agrees to transfer to another the property in goods " . |