Sentence examples for it was commonly understood from inspiring English sources

"I've been teaching in this field for 30 years, and even back then it was commonly understood that quotas were a bad idea," Professor Walker said.

Although the official cause of his death was respiratory complications, it was commonly understood that he died of a broken heart.

It was commonly understood wisdom he should have made it to twenty years and then spent his life drinking and fishing.

Before the advent of modern medicine, it was commonly understood that both men and women had to achieve orgasm for conception to occur.

It was commonly understood that growth factors and chemokines secreted by Sertoli cells and other types of cells in the niche directly regulate the self-renewal and differentiation of SSCs.

That's not a restaurant as it's commonly understood; it's Brigadoon".

"It is commonly understood to be constitutive of that which touches an object, such as conservation and preservation activity," he said.

In the "American Idol" lexicon, it's probably better to be "nice" than "pitchy" -- the judges' diplomatic term for off key -- but it's commonly understood that nice is not nearly enough.

The finding, Mr. Grafton said, means that Gutenberg was not the inventor of movable type in the way it is commonly understood: as bits of identical type that are created from metal molds.

Thomas Pynchon, by contrast, continues to embrace a version of 60s-ness as it's commonly understood, which has interesting effects on the authority he wields as America's senior postmodernist writer.

Although it's commonly understood that our senses of taste and scent are linked, even the most refined gourmets aren't always aware of how intimately bound together they are.