Example sentences of "of the general [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This happy pessimism is a far more compelling element in adventure stones , to my mind , than the cheerful man-gets-girl conclusion of the general run of romance-adventures . |
| 2 | They are put into such wards because there are not sufficient resources in the health service to open up other wards that have been closed because of the general lack of resources in the health service . |
| 3 | ‘ Railway liability is a branch of the general law of carriers . |
| 4 | in view of the prominent part taken by the women 's movement and of the general position of women in society , it was not surprising that women felt particularly strongly on such issues . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | If expectations of the general level of prices rose to some level between P and P 2 then there would be some stimulus to output and some rise in prices . |
| 7 | If expectations of the general level of prices rose above P 2 then there would be a fall in output and a rise in prices above P 2 . |
| 8 | And if expectations of the general level of prices fell below P there could be a fall in prices and a rise in output . |
| 9 | 3.5 But what of the general level of awards itself , ignoring inflation ? |
| 10 | The deliberate adjustment of the general level of awards , or of any particular category established within that general level , is , however , the sole prerogative of the Court of Appeal , or conceivably of the House of Lords . |
| 11 | Table 9.2 is designed to indicate the relative importance of commodity trade within the framework of the general balance of payments of Yugoslavia . |
| 12 | The Pioneers did not ‘ attempt to carry it on as part of their own activities under the control of the general body of members ’ . |
| 13 | By contrast , production by what became in time the Co-operative Wholesale Society is , in principle at least , under the control of the general body of members of the consumers ' societies . |
| 14 | This is done only in exceptional circumstances and where the Government considers such action necessary to protect the interests of the general body of taxpayers . |
| 15 | Your Directors firmly believe that the proposed addition to Article 93 is not in the interests of the general body of shareholders . |
| 16 | The choice of rent structures involved therefore a weighing of the interests of tenants as a whole ( including impoverished tenants ) with those of the general body of ratepayers . |
| 17 | Cosmological recurrence involving the complete destruction of the universe and its exact re-creation , as believed in by the Stoic philosophers , must be distinguished from historical recurrence involving only the repetition of the general pattern of events , as believed in by the historian Polybius , for example . |
| 18 | Despite press coverage of closures and cut-backs , real and imagined , there was no mention of the dispersals , or of the more worrying phenomenon of the general dissolution of libraries that seemed from local evidence to be taking place . |
| 19 | Therefore , I decided that I had the clue to something that had long baffled me , that whereas Levis 's strict division of the world into sensuous particulars and more intellectual abstractions — I hope I 'm being fair to him , I 'm caricaturing and shortening _ whereas this was applicable to the modern period , it probably was n't to the period I decided , I think , roughly before the eighteenth century , and with this in mind I then turned to the mysterious last plays of Shakespeare that we 've been talking about earlier and tried to see whether the sense one gets in those plays of love , for example , not as simply a logical construction for talking about the way people behave in relation to each other , but as some kind of spiritual entity existing prior to the human subjects in the play , whether that sense could be in some degree confirmed and explained by an investigation of the general use of universals in the period and earlier . |
| 20 | And with this in mind I then turned to the mysterious last plays of Shakespeare that we 've been talking about earlier , erm and tried to see whether the sense one gets in those plays of love , for example , not as erm simply a logical construction for talking about the way people talk in relation to each other , but as some kind of spiritual entity , existing prior to the human subjects in the play , whether that sense could be in some degree confirmed and explained by an investigation of the general use of universals in the period and earlier . |
| 21 | Published by order of the general meeting of subscribers to the College , London , 1801 , Smith described it as ‘ … a very poor product for seven years ’ work : it was the first and the last' . |