Example sentences of "[be] generally [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are generally arranged back to back , and a rough little relief of Roman date shows that then at least they were so set . |
| 2 | At the four ancient Scottish universities , however , first degrees in art faculties are generally called Master of Arts ( MA ) , although the newer Scottish universities and the CNAA in Scotland follow the English system and award bachelor degrees . |
| 3 | They are generally fed whole to sheep , although this can cause older ewes to shed their incisor teeth prematurely and thus shorten their useful lives . |
| 4 | As well as being asked how often they commit illegal acts , respondents are generally asked details of their social characteristics , social class , race and so on , in an attempt to get round the biases in official criminal statistics . |
| 5 | The earlier ammonoids had gently wavy sutures , and many of the Mesozoic ones had sutures almost incredibly folded and contorted , so it looks as if natural selection were generally favouring increase in the elaboration of the folds . |
| 6 | Alongside Brüggen , the 84-year-old Toscanini seems positively accommodating ; though it should be added that , apart from the two conductors ' fondness for quick tempos , their approaches are radically different , with Toscanini 's string players allowed to draw on a singing legato style that is generally denied Brüggen 's period instrumentalists . |
| 7 | Such an environment of interconnected multimedia elements is generally called hypermedia to distinguish it from hypertext . |
| 8 | He is generally fed microfeed with sugar beet , and he loves carrots and sugar , but he detests his feed being mixed . |
| 9 | The most difficult part as a captain is generally making decisions early and sticking to them . |
| 10 | The results tabulated here show that , for low packing densities , the most effective technique is generally chained overflow . |
| 11 | The policy for science and technology has been developed in tandem with the new Labour government 's economic and industrial policies and is generally considered part of any plans for national recovery and reconstruction . |
| 12 | Apart from the notion of transition outlined above , and unlike the Hallidayan approach , where the verb is generally considered part of the rheme , FSP theory assigns thematic or rhematic status to the verb depending on the context and the semantics of the verb itself . |
| 13 | To begin by throwing the classics of English literature at their heads is generally to count failure … |
| 14 | In 1986 the Eurotunnel prospectus was published and some of £206m of private money raised in what is generally termed Equity II , Equity I consisting of an earlier placement of £57m by the founder shareholders of Eurotunnel . |
| 15 | He was generally called Jabbie or Joe-boy . |
| 16 | Where he did intervene in public , it was generally to lend support to ‘ legal ’ discriminatory measures — for the most part popular and meeting with widespread approval — excluding Jews from German society and the economy . |