Example sentences of "were generally [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any tunes borrowed from other denominations were generally reharmonised . |
| 2 | This is especially important since , as mentioned above , the indiscriminate attacks of the 1939–45 War were generally justified as reprisals . |
| 3 | There was colossal opposition to these developments at the planning stage , but local people 's views were generally ignored by the Tory administration of the day , who basically held the same values as the developers and permitted the schemes . |
| 4 | Though the refusal of one of the parties to a dispute to make an oath was admissible as evidence in British courts , these other ways of trying cases were generally ignored or disapproved of by the colonial authorities . |
| 5 | The artefacts found within cremation vessels were generally ignored and appear at times to conflict with the dates ascribed ( Morris 1974 ; Kidd 1976 ; Dickinson 1978 ; Richards 1987 ) . |
| 6 | They had semi-circular arched heads and were generally filled with alabaster or marble sheets or , sometimes , glass . |
| 7 | The handles were generally fixed first , also by plain rivets burred over on the shield 's front , at right angles to the grain of the wood ( Leeds and Shortt 1953 , p. 56 ; Jarvis et al . |
| 8 | Taking all types of respondents together their ratings were similar for people who had not been in a residential home at all and those who had been in one for a year or more , while those who had only spent part of the last year of their lives in a residential home were generally felt to have had a worse quality of life : for 39 per cent of them it was rated as poor compared with 27 per cent of the other two groups . |
| 9 | The election results were generally felt to represent popular support for the economic reform policies of the Economy Minister Domingo Cavallo . |
| 10 | In 1955/6 budgets were generally overspent and by a larger margin than in earlier years . |
| 11 | The main spar booms and other main structural members were sizable pieces of laminated wood , several inches square , and were generally boxed in on three sides by the plywood skin and shear webs . |
| 12 | Reid and Hanrahan ( 1982 ) , in a review of twenty-eight studies between the years 1973 and 1981 , find that the objectives of the interventions were generally achieved , and so they conclude that ‘ intervention carried out by social workers can be effective ’ ( p. 333 ) . |
| 13 | Trebuchets had a long range , and were generally constructed on site . |
| 14 | The royal arms , which symbolized the supremacy of the crown over the church , were generally placed over the tympanum where the rood had previously stood . |
| 15 | The children were apprehensive , none more so than the newcomers who were still struggling with their English and were generally mystified by events . |
| 16 | Consider what were generally believed to be the policy implications of the NAIRU hypothesis . |
| 17 | And it was one that was admired far outside the sort of people who were generally believed to be ‘ Carry On ’ fans . |
| 18 | As in stone-built barns , slits were widely used in brick structures and they were generally arranged in rows . |
| 19 | In the twelfth century marriages were generally arranged by parents , guardians or overlords , so this move was quite normal for the time , marriages being primarily matters of finance or territory , rather than of the heart . |
| 20 | Prior to 1974 , hospital accounts were generally maintained only on the traditional income and expenditure account basis which showed only a ‘ subjective ’ analysis of expenditure ( ie salaries for doctors , salaries for nurses , expenditure on drugs , etc ) . |
| 21 | The balance of the enquiries tended to be towards matters over which the department had control , but matters beyond their immediate control , such as the blackout mentioned above , often arose spontaneously and were generally given proper and serious consideration by the Senior Management Team . |
| 22 | It was designed to rid Iran of the remaining elements of the invading force in these sectors ( some having withdrawn of their own accord ) and took the form of powerful punches to which distinctive names were generally given , evocative of important features of Islam 's past . |
| 23 | Further evidence that court musicians played more than one instrument in the Opera is indicated by the posts of the grand hautbois de Roy , such as those of Jean Rousselet and Guillaume de Granville , which were generally given as ‘ hautbois et violon de la chambre du Roy et sa grande Ecurie ’ |
| 24 | However , horns were generally seen as desirable , especially for harnessing plough oxen , and it was not until the eighteenth century that Scottish farmers began to breed selectively for the polled factor in order to make the cattle of Galloway easier to manage on the long droves to the London markets . |
| 25 | Yet they are commonly sited in dark and inaccessible places , and we really do not know how often , if at all , they were generally seen , within the period and culture in which they were made . |
| 26 | These were generally recognised to involve no large changes in technology , but there was considerable potential from a series of small innovations , which reduced both the capital and operating costs of generating equipment . |
| 27 | By the time of the French revolution three main classes of diplomat were generally recognised : the ambassador , with or without the title of " extraordinary " ; the envoy or envoy extraordinary , often with the additional designation of " minister plenipotentiary " ; and the resident , or now more commonly minister resident ( the term " minister " as a somewhat vague diplomatic title went back to at least the mid-sixteenth century ) . |
| 28 | His classification of organic reagents as anionic and cationic paved the way for the electronic theory of organic reactions , but , as the electronic formulations of ( Sir ) C. K. Ingold [ q.v. ] were simpler , these were generally adopted and Lapworth 's pioneering work was largely forgotten until the late 1940s . |
| 29 | The same was true of farms and leases , which were generally authorized by the duchy council . |
| 30 | The same was true of farms and leases , which were generally authorized by the duchy council . |