Example sentences of "[num] it be generally [verb] " 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 Certainly by 1831 it was generally supposed on both sides of the Commons that the 1823 approach had failed and that even on its own terms the government was committed to revising its policy .
3 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 .
4 In the late '20s and early '30s it was generally agreed that the two main treatment principles in coeliac disease were rest and diet .
5 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 .
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