Example sentences of "is [adv] generally [vb pp] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 The story of Ostia is less generally known than that of Pompeii and Herculaneum .
2 It is more generally understood as pain that is made worse rather than better by increasing doses of morphine .
3 It has been calculated that , at some point in her life , one woman in five will be infected with this parasite and it is also generally accepted that the organism is almost exclusively sexually transmitted .
4 It is also generally accepted that during the fourth century not only were units of a field army serving in Britain but also regular troops were acting as urban garrisons .
5 It is also generally believed that people with cancer should not be massaged because cancer cells may start to spread to the rest of the body via the lymphatic system .
6 A passage in Bede 's account attributing responsibility as the author of the war to Aethelhere , is now generally regarded as corrupt , but Oethelwald 's support for Penda certainly implies a complexity of factors .
7 It is now generally recognized that the attempt to analyse consciousness in terms of behaviour amounted to flying in the face of the facts .
8 It is now generally accepted that Frolik was a plant designed to waste MI5 's resources while important spies remained undetected and to sow seeds of distrust between MI5 and the CIA .
9 However , it is now generally accepted that β-thromboglobulin levels are elevated in diabetics ( Davis et al , 1979 ) and further evidence came from a large study of β-thromboglobulin and platelet factor 4 in diabetics compared to age- and sex-matched controls ( Betteridge et al , 1981 ) .
10 Using this method conflicting findings have been reported in studies of diabetic subjects ( Dollery et al , 1979 ; Davis et al , 1981 ) , and it is now generally accepted that there may be considerable non-specific interference in assaying this metabolite in plasma which might explain the different findings ( Greaves & Preston , 1982 ; Dollery et al , 1983 ) .
11 It is now generally accepted that this meeting was the first step on the unpremeditated road which led to the establishment of the London Veterinary College .
12 It is now generally accepted that nurture — the environment in which a child grows up — is a more important factor than heredity when it comes to the intelligence of the resulting adult human being .
13 It is now generally accepted that , about a lightyear from the Sun , far beyond the orbit of Pluto , there is a belt of at least 10 million comets , collectively known as the Oort Cloud , after the great Dutch astronomer Ian Oort .
14 It is now generally accepted that there is a division of labour within the brain , with different parts of the brain carrying out different functions .
15 It is now generally accepted that Jesus 's mother was the sister of Elizabeth , the mother of John .
16 It is now generally accepted that words prefixed by pett or pit ( similar to the Welsh and Cornish peth for ‘ thing ’ or ‘ piece ’ ) are of Pictish origin , as in places such as Pitlochry ( ‘ stony share ’ ) and Pittenweem ( ‘ share of the cave ’ ) .
17 Origin of Wings and Flight — It is now generally accepted that wings arose , perhaps in the early Devonian , as lateral expansions of the thoracic terga ( Hamilton , 197 z ) .
18 It is now generally accepted that the universe evolves according to well-defined laws .
19 We will not assign these spectra in detail , but it is now generally accepted that the ruthenium complex has three units held together only by metal-metal bonding , whereas the iron complex has bridging CO ligands , as well as many terminal ones .
20 There is a rich variety of different forecasting procedures , and it is now generally accepted that no one method is ‘ best ’ in every situation , but rather that the choice depends on various practical considerations .
21 It is now generally accepted that FAP is fully penetrant ( polyps are present ) if the bowel is examined endoscopically .
22 The term ‘ inflammatory fibroid polyp ’ is now generally accepted and is regarded as distinct from eosinophilic gastroenteritis and other conditions with which it had been previously confused .
23 For a variety of reasons this type of explanation must be rejected today and the explosive diversification of Metazoa across the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary , as recorded in the strata , is now generally accepted as being a true reflection of what actually happened ( Stanley , 1976 ; Seilacher , 1977 ) .
24 Methylation is now generally recognised as one way of switching genes off , and is particularly interesting one because it helps to explain a crucial but mystifying fact of multicellular life — the differentiation of the genetically identical cells of an embryo into the many different tissues of the mature organism .
25 It is now generally acknowledged that a man is usually at the peak of sexual potency and performance around the early twenties ; thereafter a slow decline sets in .
26 It is now generally acknowledged that Helicobacter pylori infection is the major cause of antral gastritis .
27 It is now generally realised that unless something is done to reduce accidents , other measures taken for the good of a nation 's health are being undermined .
28 Overall , it is now generally held that the interactions between fruiting plants and birds in both tropical and temperate regions are loose , asymmetric , variable in time and space , non-obligate and apparently inefficient .
29 It is now generally appreciated that Warner Bros had been particularly badly hit by the depression , largely because of the furious rate at which they had acquired movie-houses in the 1920s .
30 Despite John Ruskin 's strictures ( ‘ Such works as … the iron roofs and pillars of our railway stations … are not architecture at all ’ ) , it is now generally admitted that not only are they architecture but they are also works of art .
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