Example sentences of "[subord] [art] general [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This rule only applies where the specific listed items have some common feature so that a genus can be identified , and it may not apply where the general word precedes the list . |
| 2 | the first arises where the general law imposes a stricter duty than rules made by a regulatory organisation . |
| 3 | Whilst not wishing to sound preferential where the general level of performance is so high , I feel that Schmidt 's sopranos deserve special mention , every bit as assured and skilful in their work as their counterparts in longerestablished groups . |
| 4 | It is more and more a high tech event where the general public and even the family concerned have little , if any , role . |
| 5 | There is no power of arrest under the section , so that arrest is available only where the general arrest conditions of PACE are satisfied , or the disrupters are committing some other arrestable offence . |
| 6 | However , what an owner sees as his due rights may be seen by others as undue privilege ; and where the general interest is material enough to insist on the second alternative , it may with whatever necessary degree of consideration and justice , seek to override the first . |
| 7 | Where the general condition of a slated roof-slope is good , slipped slates may be resited by extracting the remains of the corroded fixings from beneath the overlapping course with a slater 's ripper . |
| 8 | By contrast the natural-entity theory fitted perfectly a world where there was free incorporation and where the general belief was that there was no particular need to regulate the business company . |
| 9 | An added precautionary measure is to form Newco specially for the management buy-out rather than acquire a shelf company , because a shelf company 's accounting period may have commenced at a time when its Memorandum of Association does not reflect the relevant purpose test , for example , where a general trading company is purchased and turned into a holding company . |
| 10 | Indeed , for some purposes its cheapness and speed make quota sampling a procedure which could be more extensively used in some academic research where a general indication of the attitudes extant in a specified population is required . |
| 11 | I understand they were , they 're better than the general secretary 's anyway . |
| 12 | Twenty-three of the courses approved by this point were sandwich courses , and 12 per cent of the students enrolled had qualifications other than the General Certificate of Education ( as compared with 33 per cent in science and technology ) . |
| 13 | Similarly , at various times nationalized industries have been instructed to pursue social objectives or to help implement incomes policy by holding their price increases to less than the general inflation rate . |
| 14 | Gainers will be those groups whose incomes rise more rapidly than the general price level : examples include those workers who are represented by strong trade unions or who are employed by benevolent employers . |
| 15 | Losers will be those groups whose incomes rise less rapidly than the general price level : examples include workers who are not represented by unions or who are only weakly unionised but face strong employer resistance to wage claims . |
| 16 | Yeah negative , right , textiles rise faster , the price of textiles rises faster than the general price level , the real increase in textile prices , therefore , we 'd expect providing the first law of demand holds , that we get a negative response consumption , right . |
| 17 | The prices of another , broader category of goods began to rise faster than the general price level and attracted enormous sums of speculative funds . |
| 18 | Because the chances are that because you know more about the subject than the general reporter , to whom — this may be to you the most important part of the day , most important story of your day , to him it might be only one of four , five or six that they 're doing . |
| 19 | The position of the aggregate demand curve is determined by the values of all the variables other than the general level of prices which determine the positions of the IS and LM curves , such as real government expenditure and the nominal quantity of money in the economy . |
| 20 | There is no express disqualification from voting in the case of mental patients other than the general reference to ‘ any legal incapacity to vote ’ in s.1(l) ( b ) ( i ) of the 1983 Act but it is generally considered that any person who , at the moment of voting , lacked capacity to understand what he was immediately about to do , whether by reason of mental illness or drunkenness , etc. , could be denied the right to vote by the presiding officer at the poll . |
| 21 | The selection of an anecdote to narrate the significance of an occasion is more important than the general sense of what was actually said or done . |
| 22 | In 1938 the ordinary fees were twenty-one guineas a year , and for those who paid fees this made Emanuel rather more expensive than the general run of London County Council secondary schools . |
| 23 | As already noted above , small towns often contain one or two buildings of greater extent and more sophisticated plan than the general run . |
| 24 | See D. N. MacCormick Essays in Social Democracy , Oxford , 1982 , ch. 10 ; and P. Atyiah , Promises , Morals and Law , Oxford , 1983 , for two of several analyses of promising which attempt to reduce it to what is in effect nothing more than the general principle of personal responsibility for one 's actions . |
| 25 | Second , there are situations in which the regulatory rule sets a less onerous standard than the general law but does not prohibit compliance with the higher standard , raising the question of whether the rule offers a " safe harbour " for those who comply with it . |
| 26 | The advantage of the hybrid model is that the courts retain some control over the regulatory rules in the sense that they are not bound to give effect to them rather than the general law if they are considered unreasonable . |
| 27 | Alan Milburn , said official department of employment figures showed that over the last two years youth unemployment has increased over 40pc faster than the general rise . |
| 28 | Rousseau was emphatic that the general interest of society was not the mere sum of individuals ' interests , any more than the general will was the mere sum of individual wills . |
| 29 | Mr Major said that plans for devolved Scottish , Welsh and regional assemblies , combined with moves to a federal Europe and an end to the first-past-the-post voting system , were ‘ of far greater importance than the general election itself ’ . |
| 30 | He added : ‘ It is more important than the general election itself that we maintain a constitution that has served us well for generations , and ought not to be lightly tampered with for party political purposes in the midst of the general election . ’ |