Example sentences of "[adj] than [art] general [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These increases were significantly more rapid than the general rate of inflation but , as we have argued ( pp. 31–4 , above ) they were entirely desirable . |
| 2 | I understand they were , they 're better than the general secretary 's anyway . |
| 3 | The car occupants did not move at first , a rising condensation choked the dying ventilation , the inside of the windscreen visibly clouded to reveal nothing more than a general silhouette of the two figures in the front seat deliberating their actions . |
| 4 | Little more than a general impression can be given of the state of music in the churches outside Great Britain . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | This tie-breaker lends itself even more than the general format of the competition to focusing attention on the product in hand . |
| 8 | Ethnic minorities suffer more than the general population from all the main housing disadvantages — overcrowding , sharing of dwellings , lacking basic amenities , older housing , etc. , as Table 3.18 shows . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Thus a paediatrician is paid almost twice as much as a general practitioner for each patient that he sees , but less than a general physician , who is given twice as much as a dermato-venereologist . |
| 14 | Indeed , if the Canterbury claims were as well founded as Anselm believed , anything less than a general authority over the whole British Isles would have done a violence to the early history of the see as it was understood at Canterbury , and to the large geographical and historical conceptions which lay behind these claims . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Alternatively , the rate of marine erosion at the base of the cliffs may be less than the general rate of subaerial denudation over the whole cliff . |
| 17 | People with cystic fibrosis had been less successful than the general population in achieving O level or equivalent qualifications , but more successful in achieving A level or higher qualifications . |
| 18 | Some sites have radiation levels higher than the general background in the area , but there is a tendency for Cornish circles to be below background . |
| 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 | Public libraries form by far the largest sector of the library world and they have no association with any one group of user other than the general public , so they would all receive the benefit of any national or even international promotional campaign . |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | ( c ) European legislation Unlike United Kingdom delegated legislation , European legislation , the most typical example of which is regulations made by the Council of Ministers or ( informally ) the Commission of the European Community , enjoys the force of law within the United Kingdom without any parliamentary endorsement other than the general authorisation conferred by the European Communities Act 1972 ( see pp.136–7 below ) . |
| 24 | 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 . |