Example sentences of "[pron] general [noun sg] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Roughs , based on my general knowledge of the subject , were presented at my first meeting with the ‘ team ’ and accepted in principle . |
| 2 | My general impression of the guide is a good one , and Towland gets a very good press and a lot of credit . |
| 3 | Above all , each was determined not to allow the other to gain any strategic advantage or increase its general influence in the region . |
| 4 | The biggest shortcoming of the Dobry Report , however , was that it never really came to grips with the major weakness of the development control system : its general isolation from the remainder of the planning process . |
| 5 | The adrenalin rhythm is like that of body temperature , therefore , in its general timing and its general integration with the sleep/wake cycle . |
| 6 | Nevertheless the HMI secondary survey expressed some disquiet at the complexity of option schemes and the resulting individual curricula so generated , in addition to their general concern about the extent of the ‘ core ’ ( too many pupils were discontinuing study of important subjects well before the end of their schooling ) . |
| 7 | They were selected on the basis of their general knowledge of the drug scene ( several were dealers and thus the centre of specific networks ) and their ability to communicate that knowledge . |
| 8 | In each case the successful disambiguation of the deictic reference requires that hearers identify the relevant context on the basis of the content of the utterance and of their general knowledge of the world . |
| 9 | To make some sense of this vast range , and to understand how the variables can be employed to make useful , but considerably different products out of the same basic chemicals , it is necessary to classify products according to their general function in the food environment . |
| 10 | Opposition backbenchers , as in the House , make their general case against the bill . |
| 11 | Nor is there much evidence pointing to their general education as the origin of their vision and managerial skill . |
| 12 | The picture these volumes provide about the working of canals and their general state at the beginning of this century is vast and complex . |
| 13 | 52% ( 108 ) had consulted their general practitioner at the onset of incontinence and a further 31% ( 65 ) later . |
| 14 | Overdoses of three drugs are most common among teenagers ( Hawton and Goldacre 1982 ) , who are less likely than adults to have visited their general practitioner before the attempt ( Hawton and Blackstock 1976 ) . |
| 15 | Word-processors , because of their general similarity with the typewriter , are exceptionally easy to use — as a typewriter ! |
| 16 | Visitors felt that a number of factors contributed to the appeal of the exhibitions , and it became clear that , in addition to their general interest in the subject of the exhibitions and in their content , the most important of these were ( a ) the informative nature of the exhibitions , ( b ) the layout and presentation of the exhibits , ( c ) the presentation of original documents , and ( d ) the presence of photographs and artefacts . |
| 17 | The Labour party 's plans to nationalize British civil aviation were based both on their general policy for the nationalization of industry , and on a desire to avoid the haphazard market of the years before 1939 . |
| 18 | It would be appropriate not simply as a true alternative to expulsion where the grounds for the latter exist but also where the circumstances make it difficult to identify some particular breach or failure by the partner served with notice , where the problem is more that his face no longer fits , where his general approach to the business of the firm is inconsistent with the policy which the other partners have decided to adopt , and so on . |
| 19 | His general objective in The Constitution of Liberty was ‘ to restate … the traditional doctrine of liberal constitutionalism ’ . |
| 20 | The marriage , and the recruitment and endowment of the two Rhinelanders , had the same purpose : Charles wanted to strengthen his general position in the part of Francia which was to constitute the northeastern sector of his kingdom . |
| 21 | In other words Locke argues on the basis of his general notion of the relationship between the individual and God and the individual and his fellow human beings , erm Locke argues that the individual in the state of nature has what one may fairly call legislative and executive authority over others . |
| 22 | Much of Roe 's earlier activity was at the Alderley Edge copper workings where , reports Henry Holland in his General View of the Agriculture of Cheshire , not less than 40 or 50 men were kept constantly employed . |
| 23 | He agrees with the ‘ more probable opinion … [ that ] this consciousness is annexed to , and the affection of one identical immaterial substance ’ , but , expressing his general scepticism about the extent of our knowledge , he says we really do not know the truth of the matter . |
| 24 | Anthony Smith ( 1971 , pp. 5–9 ) , in his general study of the subject , observes that ‘ The prevailing image of nationalism in the West today is mainly negative ’ , and he continues by saying that this negative evaluation ‘ contrasts with the favourable attitude of nineteenth century liberals and radicals , and later conservatives , towards the doctrine of national self-determination ’ . |
| 25 | I do not think those were happy times in Emerson 's marriage and they certainly did not enhance his general image in the sport . |
| 26 | So what 's your general feeling at the end of that particular experience ? |
| 27 | They account for our general sense of the appropriacy and inappropriacy of language as reflected in impromptu observations about style , varying from Queen Victoria 's remark on Mr Gladstone that " he speaks to Me as if I were a public meeting " , to more everyday comments like " No one would ever speak like that " , and to attributions like colloquial , journalistic , biblical , childlike , pedantic . |
| 28 | The effect on us that every year our General Secretary during the finance debate , asks Congress to approve increases in contributions . |
| 29 | Our general philosophy about the area has n't changed . |
| 30 | And , for as long as the robots of science fact were limited to the assembly lines of the automotive and a few other manufacturing industries , our general perception of the robot was unlikely to change . |