adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be widely/generally acknowledged to be sth
▪ The mill produces what is widely acknowledged to be the finest wool in the world.
be widely/generally/commonly held (=be the opinion of a lot of people)
▪ This view is not widely held.
generally speaking
▪ Generally speaking, the results have been good.
generally/widely/universally etc accepted
▪ generally accepted principles of fairness and justice
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
accepted
▪ Nation usually speaks louder than ideology; as a result, the generally accepted notions of government and opposition break down.
▪ Some difficulties arise, however, from the generally accepted distinction.
▪ It is not therefore possible at present for the public finance economist to appeal to a generally accepted body of theory.
▪ The generally accepted surveillance policy in most centres today is regular colonoscopy for patients with longstanding extensive colitis.
▪ In the field of criminal investigation there are as yet no advanced and generally accepted standards of professional competence.
▪ At Low Birk Hatt we didn't have Christmases in the generally accepted sense.
▪ The definition of power Immediately we have difficulties since there seems to be no generally accepted agreement on the meaning of power.
▪ Both writers and readers are affected by generally accepted ideas, without necessarily having given them independent thought.
available
▪ Instead of being a development of an inherent or generally available faculty, it is a specialized technique wholly dependent on specific training.
▪ The older works listed first are still widely read and most are generally available in both hardcover and paperback.
▪ The first SBus solution supporting distributed voice processing applications, it will be generally available by June following a May beta.
▪ But such devices were not yet generally accepted, and would not be-come generally available for another fifty years.
▪ Some products will benefit from being generally available for photography or for legitimate testing.
▪ This drug is the only dopamine agonist generally available.
▪ The final versions of these will be generally available soon.
▪ The drug's being tested by cancer specialists ... although it could be some years before it's generally available.
low
▪ The contribution of this to full employment is obvious, particularly at times when demand in the economy is generally low.
▪ The company negotiates lower drug costs with pharmacies for health maintenance organizations, whose stock were generally lower today.
▪ The evidence of Western civilisation suggests that the status of older people has been generally low, but variably so.
▪ The actual are generally lower than the regulatory limits allowed in Florida on a region to region basis.
▪ Here items in short supply are sold at inflated prices - but still generally lower than on the black market.
▪ This, combined with generally low penalties, does little to encourage compliance with the law.
▪ The results for Ac-5-ASA were similar but the concentrations were generally lower.
■ VERB
accept
▪ It was coming to be generally accepted by 1880 that the state was the proper political expression of the nation.
▪ Not that there was a generally accepted view of how, they might be different.
▪ That is to say, your study will provide you with the knowledge that is generally accepted as making up the subject.
▪ The media continue to publish favorable reports on prediction claims that are not generally accepted by the scientific community.
▪ That period over, there is a stage of continued high growth when the dominance of the new technology is generally accepted.
▪ Under generally accepted accounting principles, companies may use straight-line or one of the accelerated methods of depreciation for financial accounting purposes.
▪ Power is legitimate authority in that it is generally accepted as just and proper by members of society as a whole.
▪ This measurement is generally accepted as the cost of the retained earnings portion of equity capital.
acknowledge
▪ A closer examination of the Celtic Church reveals a much greater deviation from Rome than is generally acknowledged or even known.
▪ The generally acknowledged leader of the cartel is Benjamin Arellano, who usually keeps a low profile.
▪ Another set of therapies which are generally acknowledged to be helpful are the physical ones which are mostly based around massage.
▪ Although most who take advantage of flexible schedules are working mothers, fathers are using them to an extent not generally acknowledged.
▪ Nicky Haslam is generally acknowledged as a superb story-teller, who judges his audience beautifully.
▪ It is now generally acknowledged that Helicobacter pylori infection is the major cause of antral gastritis.
agree
▪ The Weimar Constitution, it was generally agreed, had suffered from two principal defects.
▪ Analysts generally agree that the fundamental economic factors that produce corporate profits remain strong.
▪ It's generally agreed that drugs are overpriced in Britain.
▪ Health-care experts generally agree that many cities have too many hospitals and some must close.
▪ News at Ten was not exactly sinking, but it was generally agreed it had lost its edge.
▪ Industry analysts generally agreed with the dividend figures, however.
▪ Despite a few dissenters, paleontologists generally agree that dinosaurs were forerunners of modern birds, rather than reptiles.
▪ Ministry officials were unavailable for comment, although economists generally agree the 5 percent goal was unrealistic.
become
▪ But until steam-power became generally used, these landscapes did not achieve their final horrific form.
▪ Doctoral degree recipients generally become college professors or work in an area of research.
▪ In the later years, teaching generally becomes less formal.
▪ People would become generally calmer and less aggressive.
▪ He was 17 years old when he suddenly became generally exhausted and tired of studying.
▪ Mormon religious leaders generally became conservative Republicans who spoke out against trade unionism and welfare programs.
▪ The consequences of changes in the budget constraint for hours of work again become generally unpredictable apriori.
▪ Obviously, even parents who have lacked early contact with their infants after hospital births generally become bonded to their babies.
believe
▪ There are other features that may have much earlier origins than is generally believed.
▪ It is generally believed that the earliest Soviet military use of photographic imaging spy satellites was in 1962.
▪ It was generally believed that this would increase their efficiency in line with private industry.
▪ It was generally believed that such women bore a mark on their bodies.
▪ From then on, Nazarean tradition is generally believed to have disappeared.
▪ It is generally believed that garlic and tea-tree essences are the most powerful anti-viral oils.
▪ I believe generally good teams are built around a strong defence and this has been lacking all season.
consider
▪ Finally they do not generally consider that its use constitutes any threat to them.
▪ The night police beat is generally considered the worst assignment at the paper.
▪ A word of warning, though-counters are generally considered a design no-no.
▪ The first five teams passed on Phillips even though he was generally considered the top player available.
▪ This was considered generally impractical and in view of the particular difficulties of carrying out social research in Belfast, probably unattainable.
▪ The kids: Not as important as Rhodes' colleagues, who generally consider Mr Rhodes too freaky and newfangled.
▪ Human beings generally consider life to function best when that ratio of male to female is relatively even.
▪ What is feminine is not generally considered economic and the economy is not usually thought of as feminine in nature.
find
▪ At the time of the research, children could generally find employment in the area without leaving home.
▪ The larger working-class and poor population generally finds it necessary to engage in multiple economic activities at the household level.
▪ Mothers generally found the group useful.
▪ Executives in charge of poorly performing companies or departments generally find their jobs in jeopardy.
▪ There health care is available and people can generally find some cash.
▪ They are generally found on the banks of shallow waters.
▪ The percentage of still births among all births was found generally high when the mother was less than 20 years.
▪ Companies, like people who try to stop the future from happening, generally find themselves run over by it.
hold
▪ The next chamber or chambers generally hold the main media, aimed at biological filtration.
▪ In the city a bold and beautiful young man named Bellerophon was generally held to be his son.
▪ The defenders of Masada are generally held to have been Zealots.
▪ Nontenured teachers generally hold their positions under annual contracts.
▪ In Chapter 6 we shall discuss the issue of anaphoric reference which is generally held to depend crucially on co-text for interpretation.
▪ Such numbers suggest a recession is more likely than generally held.
know
▪ At the time, it was not generally known the Symington family had a financial interest in the Canelos farming operations.
▪ This is the phenomenon generally known as the poverty trap.
▪ The full extent of its difficulties is not generally known.
▪ It is still generally known as the gateway to the Emmental.
▪ There's been nothing in the media about the hair either, but that piece of unpleasantness seems to be generally known.
▪ This section of the market is generally known as London Bankers' Acceptance Market.
▪ Boswell chose to suppress this fact, which did not become generally known until 1936.
regard
▪ Well Loaded Much talked-about guitar rockers, generally regarded as destined for the bigger stadia of life, unless they self-destruct enroute.
▪ Patrick is generally regarded as having been an aggressive enforcer of civil-rights laws and often came under fire from conservatives.
▪ Sinks and Tanks Sinks, generally regarded as fixtures, are the basis of any cleaning operation big or small.
▪ Five-year forecasts of economic activity are generally regarded as a science somewhere between astrology and darts.
▪ Samuel Oldknow was generally regarded as a humane employer, but even he expected his apprentices to work for thirteen hours.
▪ Bill padding has become so endemic to legal practice that it is generally regarded as a joke.
▪ You might be able to think of crimes that are not generally regarded as deviant - crime committed in self-defence, for example.
▪ Unemployment in the 1980s is generally regarded as one of the most important political issues facing all major capitalist economies.
speak
▪ Thus the importance of coinage for our understanding of the past diminishes, generally speaking, the more up to date we come.
▪ They are, generally speaking, the most expensive type.
▪ But generally speaking, the availability of landfill space is more a matter of politics than geology.
▪ By Lyle Jackson Quality check for the kitchen GENERALLY speaking, you get what you pay for in a kitchen.
▪ So, speaking generally, statements made at meetings of local authorities are thus privileged.
▪ In all these there is, generally speaking, a trade-off between the speed of analysis and the amount of information recovered.
▪ These include opening books at random. Generally speaking, this is deemed to provide some clue as to one's destiny.
use
▪ Microcomputers on the other hand generally use local storage on floppy disks.
▪ They carried with them galvanic batteries of a type generally used for feats of entertainment at carnivals.
▪ Describe the types of simulation model generally used by geographers.
▪ The equity method of accounting is generally used when from 20 to 50 percent of the subsidiary is owned by the parent.
▪ This appears more often these days generally used to fill in small areas on the ubiquitous picture sweaters.
▪ The majority of state and local governments are required by their constitutions or charters to use Generally Accepted Accounting Practices.
▪ These advertisements generally use a Box number at the publication as the contact address and may be placed by the client.
▪ Tables 8. 1 through 8. 4 present the most generally used and best known neural network paradigms.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Generally, the team has been more successful at home.
▪ His first year as President was generally regarded as a success.
▪ It is now generally accepted that the so-called "Hitler Diaries' were forgeries.
▪ Morrison is generally regarded as New York's best defensive player.
▪ The quality of the food here is generally good.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A tax or taxes on energy generally were possible approaches.
▪ Looking at the administrative and financial arrangements more generally, the diminution of political concern is remarkable.
▪ Okay, so it generally gives us the setting for the story.
▪ The tax incentive is applied generally to all adoptions, foreign and domestic.
▪ The twenty-five articles of the decree were far-reaching and generally beneficial.