Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [art] [adj] general [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main function of MPs is to support their leaders , to attack the other side and to score the maximum points with the electorate in preparation for the next general election . |
| 2 | Strike action on the coalfields was the major catalyst for the 1926 General Strike , and the miners have been widely perceived for several decades as at the forefront of trade union militancy in the United Kingdom . |
| 3 | This was a return to the test of outrage , with all its faults , but it met little outrage in Standing Committee and fell only because of the dissolution of Parliament for the 1987 General Election . |
| 4 | Future product enhancements will include support for the Standard General Markup Language ( SGML ) , ISO 's SQL3 specifications and the Object Management Group 's Object Request Broker , the company says . |
| 5 | As many observed at the time , the question could have similarly been asked nearly fifty years earlier with regard to the relative lack of support for the 1926 General Strike in the same county : as Sunley ( 1990 ) describes the two geographies , they have ‘ striking parallels ’ . |
| 6 | The Labour Party is currently establishing Labour groups overseas in order to mobilise support for the forthcoming general election . |
| 7 | Under the proposals for the new General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) , genetically-engineered plant varieties are to be protected by patents or similar legislation . |
| 8 | Calls for a one-day general strike went largely unheeded on Aug. 24 . |
| 9 | But the governing New Democracy Party dismissed calls for an early general election . |
| 10 | Recent trends in the geography of voting in Great Britain pose major problems for all political parties as they develop strategies for the next general election . |
| 11 | As also has been found for the other two scales , however , the inner city problem has become much more evident over the past decade since the deteriorating situation prompted central government to introduce more comprehensive powers in the 1978 Inner Urban Areas Act , to the extent that it was identified by the Prime Minister as the single most important challenge for the new Parliament after the 1987 General Election . |
| 12 | I suspect that those of us who continue our work as Members of Parliament after the next general election will find our surgeries just as busy with people complaining about the council tax and its anomalies as we have during the past year as a result of the poll tax . |
| 13 | At the same time , this ethic-based explanation fits well into a particular corner of the general theory of social integration offered by Shils. though the gap between the very general theorising of Shils and the over-particular and superficial descriptions of Banfield is a result of the great difficulty this variant of pluralism has in achieving its declared aim of sustaining empirically based theory and empirical research guided by theory . |
| 14 | Contact has been made with professional and educational institutions in many of the other Member States and CIOB members are now seeking recognition through the First General Directive in a number of countries . |
| 15 | As India 's leading political parties shift into gear for the forthcoming general election campaign , no fewer than three of the ex-Maharajah 's once-royal relatives are jostling for the right to contest the Bharatpur seat . |
| 16 | He arrived a few weeks before me at the Elephant and retired just a few weeks before I left the department after the 1987 general election . |
| 17 | This must happen once in each Parliament , usually not later than thirty-six months after the last general election . |
| 18 | Labour 's traditional commitment to restoring full employment was dropped during a policy review after the last general election as an impractical hostage to fortune and does not appear in the party 's manifesto . |
| 19 | And I doubt , as a result of the last general election , whether people want that kind of state . |
| 20 | The Potsdam conference , attended by Truman , Stalin and Churchill ( until the latter was replaced by Attlee as a result of the British general election ) met in July 1945 : while the conference deliberated the atomic tests were completed successfully in the United States . |
| 21 | A survey of sweet-toothed voters could provide a pointer to the result of the next general election . |
| 22 | It seems probable that the visiting extra-terrestrial would see ethnic exclusiveness and conflict , xenophobia and fundamentalism as aspects of the same general phenomenon . |
| 23 | Hermit crabs must occupy shells of the right general size if they are to survive and breed . |
| 24 | The centre-right Hungarian Democratic Forum ( HDF or MDF ) and its allies emerged as the clear winners of the Hungarian general election after the second round of voting on April 8 [ for first round on March 25 see pp. 37325-26 ] . |
| 25 | In order to make the exposition more tractable let us assume that j ( ) and are linear so that , on rearrangement , an equation of the following general form is derived : |
| 26 | The middle of 1917 saw the party at its lowest ebb , but the demands of an approaching general election produced a recovery . |
| 27 | Gen. Suchinda addressed a news conference on Feb. 24 in which he announced that the NPKC would attempt to complete the drafting of a new Constitution and the holding of a fresh general election within six months . |
| 28 | The two factions agreed , however , to remain in coalition until the next general election . |
| 29 | Does my hon. Friend agree that , now that the Conservative party is formally represented in Northern Ireland and will have candidates in the next general election there , we should remove the anomaly whereby Northern Ireland citizens — who are of course British subjects — have to follow the rest of the United Kingdom ? |
| 30 | Despite financial difficulty , the Greens are to put forward a record number of candidates in the forthcoming general election — 332 in the case of a June poll and 400 in the case of an autumn election . |