Example sentences of "[noun pl] have generally [been] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The general comfort , feel and fit of its shoes has generally been enough to attract a regular and loyal band of supports . |
| 2 | The degree of involvement in the reviews has generally been high , nearly half the teachers feeling very involved , a further third fairly involved , and only 5 per cent feeling not involved at all . |
| 3 | Films have generally been few on the ground , perhaps the most successful being Ira Wohl 's ‘ Best Boy ’ a documentary based on the life of his cousin , Philly , a 52 year old Down 's Person . |
| 4 | Tacis officials have generally been flexible in their approach to the design and implementation of our project . |
| 5 | Commercial banks have generally been able to provide the finance necessary to support the huge increase in investment because they have collected substantial deposits from savers . |
| 6 | For the past ten years , managers have generally been able to take for granted that nurses will be there to manage . |
| 7 | While most of the snow gullies remain choked , snow conditions have generally been disappointing . |
| 8 | Even though the old man himself is supposed to have rebuked one of his more imaginative pupils with the phrase : ‘ There are times when a cigar is only a cigar ’ , his disciples have generally been reluctant to embrace the more prosaic and parsimonious explanations for life 's little difficulties . |
| 9 | Some of these groups envisaged the return of General de Gaulle in the wake of the insurrection , though many did not ( the pieds noirs had generally been Pétainist during the war and many officers either viewed de Gaulle as over the hill or still resented his indiscipline in 1940 ) . |
| 10 | Some years later both Shinwell and Reuben Kelf-Cohen ( the civil servant who then headed the Electricity and Gas Division in the Ministry of Fuel and Power ) suggested that the Labour Government 's nationalisation plans had generally been ill-prepared , but in retrospect their complaints of the absence of nationalisation ‘ blue-prints ’ seem wide of the mark , at least in the case of electricity . |
| 11 | The courts have recognised that , whilst contracts in the first category , even though on standard terms , may be unobjectionable , very different criteria apply to those in the second category , and in modern times the courts have generally been vigilant to prevent the abuse of contracts of adhesion by parties with stronger market power , especially in the context of " consumer " dealings . |