Example sentences of "[adj] it [be] generally [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | by the late Seventies it was generally acknowledged that a funding system partially dependent on the departments would be unlikely to assure speedy progress towards a comprehensive service in the sector and would do nothing to reduce the substantial regional inequalities in the distribution of extra hospital facilities . |
| 2 | To make matters worse it was generally believed that the spirit of the child would remain in the body of the mother , and so for three days after the actual birth the mother had to sit by a wood and bamboo fire and sweat out the child 's spirit so that the child should be completed and the mother freed from what was now an alien spirit inside her . |
| 3 | Power is legitimate authority in that it is generally accepted as just and proper by members of society as a whole . |
| 4 | During the 1950s and 1960s it was generally believed that the weak and strong nuclear forces were not renormalizable ; that is , they would require an infinite number of infinite subtractions to make them finite . |
| 5 | In the late '20s and early '30s it was generally agreed that the two main treatment principles in coeliac disease were rest and diet . |
| 6 | By the end of 1990 it was generally accepted that the economy had entered a period of recession , although there remained significant differences over the depth and the likely duration of the downturn . |