Example sentences of "general [noun] of [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | In considering what capacity for use the land has , relevant factors are the physical state of the land , its size , shape and surroundings , and the general patterns of land-uses in the area ; a use of relatively low value may be regarded as reasonably beneficial if such a use is common for similar land in the vicinity . ’ |
| 2 | The general division of labour in peasant and pastoral households is significant — it is women who frequently collect water , fuel , forest litter and fodder , and indeed in some societies do most of the agricultural work as well , except ploughing ( as , for example , in parts of South Asia ) . |
| 3 | The position of lawyers is explained by what Spaniards call the ‘ lack of preparation ’ of other classes and the predominance of law as a general course of study in the universities . |
| 4 | In the evening she teaches both boy and girl the laws and customs , especially those governing the moral code and general rules of etiquette in the community . |
| 5 | The government places a statutory responsibility on local authorities to provide certain services and is not indifferent to the general level of service in localities . |
| 6 | If the expectation of the general level of prices in this economy is P , the relevant short-run supply curve is the line labelled SS . |
| 7 | This did not occur here ; the experience of unemployment can not be interpreted as causing preparedness to break the law by altering respondent 's general level of trust in the institutions of authority and the state . |
| 8 | At the same time the general level of wealth in this unremarkable corner of the East Midlands , peopled entirely by peasant farmers , with a leavening of yeomen and only a handful of rich squires , was lower only than on the fertile cornlands of Norfolk and in the opulent Stour Valley manufacturing district — higher not only than in other , similar regions but also Berkshire , which the yield of the loans , 1522 — 3 , placed fifth jointly with Suffolk , and Gloucestershire which shared fourteenth place with Rutland itself . |
| 9 | In that case the trial judge had regarded the general level of awards in the class of case with which he was dealing as " unacceptably low " , and had made an award above the generally accepted bracket . |
| 10 | Social factors include the general level of unemployment in the neighbourhood and whether there is a local trend for firms to shed their work force . |
| 11 | He also protested at the general level of unemployment in the country and issued specific demands for the reinstatement of the standing of the Panamanian security forces which had been largely disarmed and reduced to a police force by the US-backed civilian government . |
| 12 | Glass credits her with raising the general level of musicianship in the United States and the debt he owes to her tyranny is ‘ a sense of style , accomplishment and a technique that I simply did n't have before . ’ |
| 13 | So we had already experienced the general loss of illusions in socialism . |
| 14 | The achievements of the past 10 years will be jeopardised not only by the present bout of inflation , but even more by a general loss of confidence in the Government 's ability to deal with it . |
| 15 | In the new global situation , there is a general loss of confidence in the ability of any agency to predict or control the future course of world events . |
| 16 | The lower status of their own customs could then well lead to a general loss of interest in the arts and this could gradually spread throughout society . |
| 17 | A general perception of Britain in continued decline has given way in the past week to a feeling that the economy really is ‘ bottoming out ’ at last , says David Kern , chief economist of the National Westminster Bank . |
| 18 | In the examination itself , divide up the time on the basis of how the marks are likely to be distributed ; if you run out of time for your first answer , quickly sketch a conclusion and move on to the next question , so that you have provided at least a general indication of work in all the questions . |
| 19 | ‘ I have offered a prediction to several officials of the Soviet government that , on the present slow course , the reforms run a very high risk of being set back by a general collapse of confidence in the rouble — an inflationary disintegration , ’ Mr Angell said . |
| 20 | As the work of a man who is not only a poet but a Catholic poet , Paradiso is hardly a typical case , but the sheer volume of fiction produced in Spanish America in recent decades — and continues to be produced — scarcely betokens a general collapse of confidence in the written word , and it is noteworthy that Cabrera Infante 's Three Trapped Tigers , for example , re-creates the atmosphere of pre-revolutionary Havana even as it casts doubt on the feasibility of such an enterprise . |
| 21 | A general appraisal of IT in the service industries and the testing of a reverse product cycle hypothesis for services will be completed in 1986 . |
| 22 | Judging from American experience , general disclosure of APRs in line with Consumer Credit Act regulations will indeed make many more people aware of the sort of APR that they can expect with a particular type of credit . |
| 23 | Finally , as summarized in table 4 , there seemed to be little interest in some of the current general matters of concern in education . |
| 24 | The most notable representative of the latter has been Michel Foucault , who has remorselessly continued the critique of totalizing forms of history and the disavowal of a general philosophy of history in favour of strategic ‘ genealogical ’ analyses . |
| 25 | In addition to the regulation of exemption clauses , the UCTA also makes some alterations to the general law of contract in relation to the contracts affected by it , and regulates the exclusion of tortious liability , in business situations , for death , personal injury or other damage caused by negligence . |
| 26 | The actual decision was given on the basis that applying s5 of the Partnership Act in the first case and the general law of agency in the second , the firms were liable on the undertakings because they were given by their partner/employee acting within the usual course of his business as a qualified solicitor . |
| 27 | An alternative method of wound closure uses tapes but the general experiences of tapes in the A&E department has been disappointing . |
| 28 | The general issue of omissions in the criminal law was discussed in Chapter 4 . |
| 29 | There is a more general issue of accountability in the voluntary sector . |
| 30 | In the general run of life in a river this may be very true , but many times I have been able to take barbel and chub from the same swim simply by altering the depth at which my bait is fishing . |