Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [art] general " in BNC.
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| 1 | 4.17 In Roberts v Johnstone [ 1988 ] 3 WLR 1247 the Court of Appeal laid down a general rule for assessing damages where a plaintiff has to purchase special accommodation . |
| 2 | It laid down the general principle of comprehensive education which would have ended selection over a period ( but this was repealed in the 1979 Act ) . |
| 3 | Mountbatten offered the British government two courses ; either there should be negotiations between Dutch and Indonesians with a view to bringing in a general ceasefire ( plan X ) or else punitive action against ‘ Known or suspected terrorists ’ ( plan Y ) . |
| 4 | Herbert also penned the verses which have come to sum up the general fate of such investigations : |
| 5 | And just as well : because , however persuasive the case for the public ownership of particular industries , experience since 1945 can hardly be said to bear out the general case , the proposition that public ownership is the necessary precursor to the realisation of the rights of man . |
| 6 | They might prefer to work out a general letter and simply insert the details such as where they saw the job advertised and the name given to the vacancy advertised . |
| 7 | During that painful walk I managed to work out the general outline of these pages . |
| 8 | In those circumstances , it will be necessary to attempt to spell out the general laws , metaphysical and methodological principles , etc. involved in a paradigm in order to defend them against the alternatives involved in the threatening new paradigm . |
| 9 | Your camcorder 's microphone will no doubt do a first-rate job of picking up the general sound atmosphere , or ambience . |
| 10 | for example , it is very hard to set up a general management consultancy with a broad range of clients and then allow the executive search firm to poach people out of them . |
| 11 | Having mapped out the general social and drug career characteristics of users interviewed in the four snowball samples , the following section will discuss why these users had not come into contact with the various voluntary and statutory bodies expected to deal with the ‘ heroin problem ’ . |
| 12 | But whatever you do , do not send out a general mailing and then ring up and ask whether the recipient is going to use it or not . |
| 13 | ‘ Put out a general call for Lt. Vologsky at once , ’ he snapped . |
| 14 | The tendency of historians to play down the general effect of the Combination Laws seems rather insensitive to the feeling of oppression widely found in these manufacturing districts . |
| 15 | Indeed , leading up the General Election , one tabloid paper said truth , not propaganda , and it ran a series of articles each day de doing features on the main Parties , to give a fair and balanced view , but also running other features claiming nothing wrong with the N H S , banking systems and other high profile problems . |
| 16 | That would just about sum up the general South African reaction to the record 26–3 defeat by Australia . |
| 17 | The requirement for long-term robustness rules out the general use of dowels but the thought of complex , angled mortise and tenon joints is intimidating . |
| 18 | Consequently , the National Certificate Modules which make up a general SVQ may not relate directly to functions performed in employment , although they are relevant to the needs of employment . |
| 19 | To address the fragmentation issue , general SVQs will also feature an additional assessment , probably taken towards the end of the course , which will require the candidate to demonstrate that he/she can pull together the work across all of the modules which make up the general SVQ . |
| 20 | Delegated legislation is used mainly to add detail to primary legislation which may lay down the general principles although matters of considerable importance are sometimes dealt with in this way . |
| 21 | Head Office can draw up a general set of specimen job descriptions for all posts , if this is thought to be helpful . |
| 22 | Labour proposes an Education Standards Commission ; both parties would set up a General Teaching Council . |
| 23 | ‘ Since Tweed appears to have scooted , are you sending out a general alert , setting the hounds after him ? ’ |
| 24 | It may set out the general terms on which the firm will be prepared to deal , its right to refuse to deal and the fact that any deals that it undertakes will be on the customary terms of the market concerned . |
| 25 | He was quick to come to the city 's defence , arguing that , what was lacking in financial support , was made up for in sheer determination , enthusiasm and innovation , ‘ We have been keen to draw out the general cultural life of Dublin ’ , he explained , ‘ much of our funding has been matched by donations from such organisations as the EEC ’ . |
| 26 | Wilds and Busby laid out the general design and the facades of the houses ; others were left to finish the interiors and tidy up the edges . |
| 27 | Our critical strategies can range far wider , and in doing so can take on a general character . |
| 28 | embed sentences in relations to reality in such a way that they can take on the general pragmatic functions of representation , expression and establishing interpersonal relations . |
| 29 | Long before that — at least as early as 1775 — the courts had laid down the general principle of law that a person can not bring an action based on his own wrong ( ex turpi causa non oritur actio ) . |
| 30 | Many of these techniques culminate in your being able to trigger off a general sense of relaxation when it suits you . |