Example sentences of "in general it " in BNC.
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| 1 | The limited ‘ defence ’ of mistake about the girl 's age , available to young men under 24 , was explained above , and the reason for creating such a limited ‘ defence ’ is that in general it has been held that the crime does not require any fault element as regards the girl 's age . |
| 2 | In general it can leave children with their natural curiosity expressed by the neverending ‘ why ’ questions of childhood , being squashed by the inability of adults to discuss in any other way what has really happened , and so the child learns that whatever has really happened is just too awful to be talked about . |
| 3 | In general it seems fair to say that rather fewer Zuwaya were concerned with freedom of speech or opinion than with the threats to economic independence , which in their view was more closely bound up with identity and belonging . |
| 4 | In general it leads to low level resistance . |
| 5 | In general it allied itself with the conservative sector , knowing it could then rely on the wealth and status of this group and , in return , offering a value system that supported their regimes . |
| 6 | In general it was an extremely superstitious age . |
| 7 | In general it would seem that the now-extinct Alderney was fairly similar to today 's Guernsey but smaller ( in 1800 bulls stood at 119cm , cows 112cm and oxen 140cm ) and with short , ‘ crumpled ’ ( curled ) horns , fine bones , a long , thin neck and protruding , raised hips . |
| 8 | Much remains unknown about viral persistence but in general it results from stalemate in the battle between the virus and the body . |
| 9 | In general it results in their avoiding owls at all costs , but occasionally they turn the tables on the killer bird — the tormented become the tormentors . |
| 10 | More crucially it ran along political lines , i.e. in general it was applied by Labour-controlled local authorities only . |
| 11 | In general it 's all delicious . |
| 12 | In general it makes sense to change your tampon several times a day and especially to insert a fresh one before going to bed . |
| 13 | The third rule is that in general it is better to tax than to borrow . |
| 14 | In general it is a safe , economic , and effective treatment for nocturnal enuresis ( Houts et al . |
| 15 | In general it is far less complicated to follow the instructions implicitly , just moving the lace carriage in the direction of the straight arrows and knitting the rows where there are curved arrows . |
| 16 | Not in life in general it 's not , no . ’ |
| 17 | Even if they do slip the odd razor blade into their slices of apple pie , in general it 's a view of life that 's , well , kinda pretty neat . |
| 18 | Batch production work is often of this kind and in general it is by no means as unchanging or boring as it might appear to the casual visitor to the factory . |
| 19 | The underlying reasons for this will be considered more fully below but in general it seems clear that large , volume production industries were characterised by low throughput per worker because of over-manning and insufficient intensity of capital use [ Bacon and Eltis , 1974 ; Pratten , 1971 , 1976a ] . |
| 20 | The Ministry , though in general it had a weak set of personnel by Whitehall standards , was imbued with the common cultural attitudes of the mandarinate . |
| 21 | Whilst in general it does seem that relationships with the ‘ outer circle ’ are not particularly important sources of support , one certainly can find predictable — not merely idiosyncratic — exceptions to that rule . |
| 22 | In general it seems that the greater the learning difficulties , the more didactic is the approach and the more controlling the relationship . |
| 23 | It would indeed have defined a biological category of criminals , but as an explanation of crime in general it would have been virtually irrelevant . |
| 24 | Thus in general it seems a mistake to see attitudinism as the enemy of reason in ethics . |
| 25 | In general it was almost exclusively extreme right-wing elements who were first involved , but they tended to be of two distinct types . |
| 26 | Allen was to play an important role in the story of the BUF , in general it was those who came to fascism from outside politics who were to prove the most important elements in the organization . |
| 27 | In general it may be said that ‘ Cromwell 's decade ’ saw a doubling of the ordinary revenue of the Crown — though it also saw an increased expenditure , especially on the household , administration , defence , and Ireland . |
| 28 | Thus , by the very beginning of 1947 , and well before ‘ containment ’ , the Marshall plan and the Zhdanov doctrine drew the battle lines between Russia and the US in Europe and in general it may be seen that a framework of impressions , intentions , hopes and misunderstandings was being thrown up which would support US policy towards Vietnam for the next 20 years and under whose weight it would ultimately collapse . |
| 29 | In general it is felt that investigations into specific problems have been more valuable than wide ranging background investigations . |
| 30 | Yet two other Nixon nominees to the Court were rejected by the Senate , and in general it continued to follow a liberal path on civil rights and individual liberties . |