Example sentences of "generally [vb pp] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 The Labyrinth at Knossos is generally recognized to have been one of the greatest architectural achievements of the ancient world .
2 By then he had also begun to produce the works for which he is principally remembered , pen or lithographic facsimile reproductions of early printing and wood engraving , generally intended to remedy defects in existing copies of books .
3 The two main traditions of piano building are generally distinguished according to the type of action employed in them .
4 No-one really knows the mechanisms which cause women to live longer than men , but the clues are generally considered to lie in our hormones .
5 The Front is generally considered to lie south of the Kent Coalfield , within which there is no evidence of thrusting , and to link with the Midi Overthrust south of Cap Griz Nez across the Channel ( Wallace 1968 , 1983 ) .
6 Horizontally restricted layers are generally considered to come into the category of Bénard convection provided that the boundary conditions on the end-walls are such that there is still an equilibrium solution ( stable or unstable ) of the equations with the fluid at rest .
7 However , the determination of the drug barons to avoid extradition to the United States on drug charges was generally considered to have been the major factor behind the offer to surrender .
8 The action of the Sandinista-controlled Army ( EPS ) , in obeying a government order and clearing the barricades away on July 10 , and the constitutional loyalty also of the police force ( which was similarly linked with the FSLN ) , was generally considered to have been crucial to the government 's survival .
9 Those popes who are generally considered to have been most influential and powerful had decidedly legal aims : their political theory was developed within the law .
10 Also , the normal deglutitive response is generally considered to consist of a contraction wave that appears at manometry as a single or M shaped peak .
11 They found their literary expression in a series of haunting elegies generally considered to contain some of the finest love poetry in the English language .
12 But at the same time lawyers and family were generally permitted to make regular visits .
13 Moreover library procedures are generally designed to facilitate the addition of books , rather than their withdrawal .
14 Since such standards are generally designed to prevent harm by accumulation , violations consist of rule-breaking which could lead to harm , as well as rule-breaking where actual harm is demonstrated ( Reiss , 1980:30 ) .
15 Cornelius had noted that famous men and women generally claimed to have fallen into their famous careers through sheer chance .
16 Within marriage a wife was generally expected to obey her husband .
17 A hydraulic fracture is generally expected to propagate in a vertical plane in a direction perpendicular to the minimum horizontal stress azimuth .
18 Because women are generally expected to take a more dependent role in society than men , disabled women face a particularly acute struggle to overcome the obstacles against them controlling their own lives , or even defining their own identities ( Morris , 1989 ; Lonsdale , 1990 ) .
19 The prostitutes , all aged between eighteen and twenty-three , apparently became La Tour 's perks and he was generally expected to join in the fun as well .
20 Today is Pentium launch day when the likes of NCR Corp , Unisys Corp , Compaq Computer Corp and some two dozen other companies take the wraps off their first Pentium machines , but there is not much point in their making too much noise about it — Intel Corp expects to ship only about 10,000 Pentium chips to customers through June ; machines are generally expected to start at about $5,000 , but the Wall Street Journal hears that Advanced Logic Research Inc will announce a basic Pentium box for about $3,000 ; Compaq also plans an $18,000 Pentium version of its SystemPro server .
21 A key television debate was held on Sept. 3 between Mitterrand ( who was generally deemed to have been more successful ) and Séguin .
22 The scan score correlated with all laboratory tests generally accepted to reflect active gut inflammation except for the erythrocyte sedimentation rate .
23 However , the history of the Channel Tunnel is generally said to have begun with the 1820 proposal of French mining engineer Albert Mathieu-Favier for a road tunnel lit by gas and ventilated through chimneys emerging above sea level .
24 The vigorous shower did not have any of the beneficial effects such things were generally said to have by public-school games-masters of a previous age .
25 Making replicas of existing chairs is generally done to extend sets of antique chairs , but it can also prove a very useful introduction to chair-making techniques .
26 Erm downward convergence are generally done to reduce embarrassment between people of different statuses .
27 85 per cent capacity ( 75–80 per cent is generally reckoned to represent break-even point ) , but the Northwich brewery ( mainly lager ) is currently achieving no more than 65 per cent .
28 He is generally featured peering languidly into a pool , however divests the situation of its seriousness by considering his metamorphosis .
29 The election results were generally felt to represent popular support for the economic reform policies of the Economy Minister Domingo Cavallo .
30 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 .
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