Example sentences of "to the general [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Exhibition Committee had advertised the event more widely to the general canoeing public than for the last decade . |
| 2 | Johnson , contradicting him , took him from the particular belief to the general likelihood : from the possibility of a singular holy place to the generic derivation from water : ‘ Had it been an accidental name , the similarity between it and Anaitis might have had something in it ; but it turns out to be a mere physiological name . ’ |
| 3 | Not only the continuous activity of the mammal , by contrast to the general torpor and intermittent liveliness of the reptile , but also the wider range of its behaviour and its ecological adaptation call for a more plastic , adaptable behavioural response . |
| 4 | This means that many mergers for which there have been no demonstrable advantages , but which have not been found to be overtly anti-competitive , have been allowed through , and thus contributed to the general increase in industrial concentration . |
| 5 | But the steady drip of disclosures , which appears certain to continue right up to the general election later this year , could yet prove fatal to the Congress ( I ) Party 's chances of remaining in power . |
| 6 | CANBERRA ( Reuter ) — Australia 's conservative opposition , led by Andrew Peacock , announced plans to curb trade unions , sell state assets and cut taxes , with a view to the general election a year ahead . |
| 7 | Richard Ryder is now a ‘ trouble-shooter ’ , licensed to chide those who cause party splits in the run-up to the general election . |
| 8 | But Mr Smith , the shadow Chancellor , worked closely with Mrs Beckett , shadow Treasury Chief Secretary , in the run-up to the general election . |
| 9 | In Parkinson 's Law , C. Northcote Parkinson confidently dates the initial step on the downward path of Empire to the general election of 1906 . |
| 10 | Sir , — The following is an open letter to the general election candidates . |
| 11 | It was simply because the build-up to the general election revealed that policies for reducing pollution were the very last thing on anyone 's agenda . |
| 12 | Prior to the general election , when many experts expected a Labour victory followed by a rise in base rates , there were several enticing bonds to go for . |
| 13 | four days before The Observer published this statement by Wilson , Chapman Pincher wrote in the Daily Express that he had a copy of a DI6 report , detailing the heavy surveillance of Harold Wilson prior to the general election of February 1974 . |
| 14 | ‘ Antonia told me she had been watching Mellor on TV in the run up to the General Election and said she had suddenly been taken over by this incredible desire for him and that she badly wanted to meet him . |
| 15 | Standing up to voters in the run-up to the general election is another matter . |
| 16 | In the run-up to the general election his endorsement of independence could prove to be the SNP 's greatest asset . |
| 17 | In the run-up to the General Election the University Library mounted an exhibition of election posters from bygone eras , including those shown above which date from 1929 , 1906 and 1924 respectively . |
| 18 | In a letter to the PA sent during the run-up to the General Election last April , the Conservative Party said that it would not impose VAT on books or periodicals . |
| 19 | All the constitutional political parties in Northern Ireland have , in recent weeks , given encouraging signs that they would wish to return to talks or to start fresh talks prior to the general election . |
| 20 | During the run-up to the general election , the Government do not want to hear the word ’ privatisation ’ , but that is what is in store for the coal industry — or is it ? |
| 21 | The truth is that it is this party and this Government who have consistently sought to defend employees and trade union members over the past 12 years , and that is what the country will bear in mind when we come to the general election . |
| 22 | However , the debate on these issues will be held in the run-up to the general election at the fag-end of the Parliament . |
| 23 | Notwithstanding the constitutional changes which led up to the general election of July [ see p. 37603 ] , the Habré government had remained an alliance of faction leaders lacking any real popular support . |
| 24 | On Oct. 15 , 1990 , in the run-up to the general election , Senator Gertrude Eastmond resigned from the DLP and the Senate , claiming that the country was " heading for disaster " . |
| 25 | With the economic situation deteriorating rapidly , the NSF and its opponents were engaged in political manoeuvering in the run-up to the general election in 1992 . |
| 26 | The expulsion of the ICRC delegates therefore appeared to be linked to the run-up to the general election due on April 10 , as conservatives maintained that the government exerted insufficient pressure on the ICRC for the return of some 5,000 Iranian prisoners who some believed had survived in Iraq : the ICRC had been unable to locate prisoners in these numbers , while it was supervising the return of some 20,000 prisoners from Iran to Iraq . |
| 27 | The government described the timing of his planned visit as " inopportune " in the run-up to the general election scheduled for Sept. 27 . |
| 28 | This was of course prior to the General Election . |
| 29 | There can be no justification for the comments we have heard from certain leaders of right wing er trade unions , who wish to take away the very principle of what we 're talking about , the block vote , especially one , when one of 'em , allegedly , who have n't even bothered to pay their contributions to the General Election Fund . |
| 30 | Later there was no little discontent in Washington when Douglas-Home , in the run-up to the general election of October 1964 , placed so much emphasis on Britain 's " independent " deterrent . |