Example sentences of "general [noun] of confidence in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But a combination of the £1.3 billion cash call and the general lack of confidence in the pharmaceutical sector means that Zeneca is unlikely to get off to the sort of flying start that some had hoped for . |