Example sentences of "the general [noun] that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The election of the Prime Minister has done much to dispel that idea and to show the general public that in my right hon. Friend we have a Prime Minister who is frank about his business background and honest about the employment difficulties that he faced as a young man . |
| 2 | ‘ I said to quite a few people immediately after the General Election that within the course of the next 12 months , I would be one of the most unpopular people in this country . |
| 3 | In these circumstances it is impossible to my mind to regard section 8 as supporting the general proposition that in the exercise of its inherent jurisdiction the court should allow the child 's decision to determine the matter , whether or not the court thinks that this is in the child 's best interests . |
| 4 | Hyman ( 1982b , p. 108 ) reiterates the general point that in industrial relations ‘ the present must be viewed as historically conditioned and historically contingent , and as incomprehensible except by means of historical understanding . ’ |
| 5 | But this would itself be merely an instance of the general fact that with most sentences it is possible for two people to understand them but disagree about their truth . |