Example sentences of "is [adv] agreed " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is widely agreed that such psychoactive plants or preparations from them were much used in religious ceremonies , where their effects were taken as evidence for religious reality ; visions of Paradise which could be reached only by the faithful . |
| 2 | It would force a return to the Roads –n Urban Areas style of road and housing layout which is widely agreed to be less than desirable – |
| 3 | It is widely agreed that the lifetime reproductive success of individuals is the most satisfactory measure of fitness that it is usually possible to collect ( see Falconer , 1960 ; Cavalli-Sforza & Bodmer , 1961 ; Maynard Smith , 1969 ; Grafen , 1982 ) . |
| 4 | Much has been said and written as to how exactly the miracle is performed , but it is widely agreed that a relatively stable group of large general electronics companies in Japan did succeed in the 1970S and 1980S in being continuously innovative in terms of products and markets . |
| 5 | Although it is widely agreed that successful innovations need to couple R&D , manufacturing , and marketing activities to ensure that new products can be manufactured at reasonable cost and are attractive to consumers , it is not completely obvious that this means that all three activities always need to be conducted under the same roof . |
| 6 | Yet the report is widely agreed to have very little that is tangible to say about how the UK 's environmental stategy is to be taken forward . |
| 7 | ( 12 ) Unless a completion date is expressly agreed it will be fixed by the general conditions of sale . |
| 8 | an action plan for the future is mutually agreed . |
| 9 | Conflict is dealt with through simple avoidance — Buid traditionally lived in isolated family homesteads — or through the submission of a dispute to a formal tultulan , ‘ collective discussion ’ , in which a sum of compensation is mutually agreed and paid . |
| 10 | What is less agreed upon is whether the reward should be given for routine adequacy or for extra special effort . |
| 11 | It is not at all clear what extra resources and provision are currently being planned or provided for this larger group , nor whether the size of that group is broadly agreed , nor whether local authorities and schools are identifying in any way the children involved . |
| 12 | The EC is broadly agreed to end the European single market in waste , wherein toxic materials traverse Europe in the search for the cheapest and least-regulated outlet , but can not agree on how to do it . |
| 13 | The wage rise which is finally agreed upon ( between 3 and 9 per cent ) depends on the relative bargaining strengths of the two sides . |
| 14 | Finally , once the client has agreed the schedule with the agency ( which may well be done before the content of the ads is finally agreed ) , it is the media person 's job to go out into the marketplace and buy the press space , the poster sites or the TV , radio or cinema spots . |
| 15 | This poem is generally agreed to be made up of material from different dates and there are considerable textual differences between manuscript versions . |
| 16 | It is generally agreed that only one wing-tip should be held while the glider is being moved about . |
| 17 | The effect of the Sicilian experience on Yeats is disputed by Yeats scholars , but it is generally agreed that some effect there was . |
| 18 | However , the poem that opens the volume , ‘ Ego Dominus Tuus ’ , is in the form of an inconclusive dialogue between two persons ‘ Hic ’ and ‘ Ille ’ , who it is generally agreed might as well be named at certain points as ‘ Ez ’ and ‘ Willie ’ . |
| 19 | It is generally agreed that he has mishandled the students , who have been threatened , bullied , fired on with tear-gas grenades ; and now the university is closed which means that these cynical and angry students are all over the country spreading disillusion . |
| 20 | It is generally agreed that opposition success in the election will depend on a unified challenge to Congress , especially in the densely-populated Hindi-speaking states of the north . |
| 21 | Gutted raw fish are smoked slowly over wood chips and it is generally agreed that oak gives the best flavour , although other woods are preferred in some part of the world . |
| 22 | It is generally agreed that objects appear smaller and heavier as they move upwards . |
| 23 | A candid confession to youthful pot-smoking , it is generally agreed , is no longer a disqualification for office , but the sore part of the latest wound — pretty mild by Clinton standards — was that he had been evasive when asked repeatedly about it for at least seven years and that even last week 's admission was shifty . |
| 24 | Although psychics describe the aura differently ( according to their own level of psychic perception ) , it is generally agreed that the aura is composed of at least three layers or levels . |
| 25 | CD 's original for certain aspects of the character of Podsnap is generally agreed to have been his dogmatic friend , John Forster . |
| 26 | For many , this would be the natural choice anyway with or without government policy , and it is generally agreed that the ideals behind community care are good ones . |
| 27 | It is generally agreed that these redshifts are caused by the expansion of the Universe . |
| 28 | It is generally agreed that a reduction of at least 85 per cent in chlorine producing compounds is necessary to keep present atmospheric chlorine levels stable . |
| 29 | The front-runner is generally agreed to be the Multiple Non-Transferable Ticket System ( No Refunds ) , which is currently used in Iceland , Bosnia , and parts of Turkey . |
| 30 | It is generally agreed that the conference market is growing by approximately 10 per cent per annum . |