Sentence examples for it is generally supposed from inspiring English sources

It is generally supposed that Mill writes with a lover's extravagance about Harriet's powers.

Though it is generally supposed that all gases are completely miscible i.e., mutually soluble in all proportions this is true only at normal pressures.

Labour's historical difficulties notwithstanding, it is generally supposed that the Conservatives are more vulnerable to tales of banking excesses than is Labour.

As observations suggest that hydrogen and helium are much more abundant than other elements, and there is an abundance peak near iron, it is generally supposed that heavy elements have been built up from light elements.

Reingestion is poorly understood, but it is generally supposed that the process allows the animal to absorb in the upper gut vitamins produced by the microflora of the lower gut but not absorbable there.

She spots the marsh on which the house was built and an adjacent stream on an 1859 map by Egbert L. Viele, a civil engineer who warned: "I know that it is generally supposed that when the city is entirely built upon, all that water will disappear, but such is not the case".

Although the Atacama is well known for its extreme dryness, up to 2003, there was little interest in exploring and characterizing its potential microbial ecosystems, as it was generally supposed to be sterile.

It is easy to miss the significance of what Scotus brought about: in part because it now seems so inevitable, in part because Scotus comes at the end of a gradual trend toward naturalism, and in part because it's generally supposed that nothing of much philosophical importance happened between Aristotle and Descartes.

While most authors were careful not to commit themselves to any account of how this original imposition actually occurs, and while it was recognized that words such as 'person' and 'spirit' (both important in theological contexts) do acquire new connotations, it was generally supposed that the signification of common nouns within a given conventional language remains stable.

While the evolutionary synthesis is of course compatible with evolution, the evidence to support it is actually much thinner than is generally supposed; this is mainly because data is hard to come by in processes that are intrinsically slow and rare.

October 1, 2008), Spencer Leigh wrote in Britain's Sunday Independent: Looking at their repertoire now, it is apparent that the Kingston Trio was far more adventurous than is generally supposed.