Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [prep] a general [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The list given here is intended only as a general guide . |
| 2 | But Living Wills should be regarded only as a general indication of our wishes . |
| 3 | But this was to be expected just before a general election . |
| 4 | This was to be expected just before a general election , however . |
| 5 | The rise in the popularity of herbs as medicinal remedies is less obvious but it seems to have come partly from a general dissatisfaction with synthesized drugs , as well as plastics , artificials and chemicals — " manufactured " articles of all kinds , which are being rejected in favour of substances naturally grown and formed by hand into the artifact required . |
| 6 | A prospective cohort study [ 6 ] carried out on a general population in the west of Scotland found that mortality from all causes was higher in passive smokers than in a control group of nonsmokers , as were all causes of death related to smoking , including mortality from lung cancer and ischaemic heart disease . |
| 7 | If you claim for loss of or damage to the glass in your cars windscreen or windows , or to the bodywork scratched by the broken glass , you will only have to pay the first £40 of the cost if the replacement is carried out by a General Accident approved windscreen specialist . |
| 8 | If you claim for loss of or damage to the glass in your cars windscreen or windows , or to the bodywork scratched by the broken glass , you will only have to pay the first £40 of the cost if the replacement is carried out by a General Accident approved windscreen specialist . |
| 9 | If you claim for loss of or damage to the glass in your cars windscreen or windows , or to the bodywork scratched by the broken glass , you will only have to pay the first £40 of the cost if the replacement is carried out by a General Accident approved windscreen specialist . |
| 10 | With the changing outlook of its leadership , the NFoL 's early concentration upon opposing pornography broadened out into a general opposition to the modern permissive society . |
| 11 | I went to the conference armed only with a general feeling of being pissed off that men seemed to have it all their own way . |
| 12 | The company 's shareholders got tangled up in a general bout of profit-taking that hit all electricity shares . |
| 13 | The term ‘ further education ’ ( FE ) is used sometimes in a general sense to cover all post-school education , but in practice it is usually differentiated from higher education ( study at universities , polytechnics and colleges of higher education ) , and divided into the categories of non-advanced further education ( NAFE ) , which means A-level standard or below , and advanced further education ( AFE ) which is above A level or its equivalent . |
| 14 | But increasingly , doubts , some of which can be traced back to a general report on the supply of professional services by the Monopolies Commission in 1970 , were raised about whether restraints on competition in the professions are necessarily beneficial . |
| 15 | This belief in ‘ independence ’ is well entrenched in the West and it has developed out of a general mistrust of centralized political power and of power that had historically not tolerated the free expression of dissenting views . |
| 16 | The literature review will be set in to a general policy context of recent developments in the UK vocational training field . |
| 17 | As schools increase in their heterogeneity , those that serve areas where there is a concentration of disadvantage will watch helpless as the more motivated , more able , more ambitious children move to the favoured schools , leaving them to cope with the rest , and worse , suffer the ignominy of having their results on national tests published , protected only by a general statement from the local authority , indicating ‘ the nature of socio-economic and other influences which are known to affect schools ’ ( Task Group on Assessment and Testing , para 134 ) . |
| 18 | What it can offer will be illustrated in case studies below , but can be summed up as a general information carrier , providing instant access to a variety of information which is more up to date than printed sources an educational service , providing information on new technology , higher education , careers , educational developments and new educational products a gateway service , providing access to remote databases such as ECCTIS ( see below ) a service providing access to other viewdata systems via Bulletin ( W.M. ) , Monitel a mailbox facility , allowing electronic communication between schools and other users and providing contact points for school librarians and teachers a software service providing telesoftware and enabling users to obtain access to software via Prestel Education and Micronet a microviewdata service , allowing users to create their own databases through Prestel |
| 19 | ‘ I have offered a prediction to several officials of the Soviet government that , on the present slow course , the reforms run a very high risk of being set back by a general collapse of confidence in the rouble — an inflationary disintegration , ’ Mr Angell said . |
| 20 | Although the role of Western doctors in the introduction of Western medicine to China has been known about in a general sense for a long time , no studies exist which assess the contributions of British doctors in the last two centuries , yet evidence suggests that these were by no means insubstantial . |
| 21 | In all these cases catalogues can be amended simply by a general notice explaining that the groups of materials have been moved to remote storage . |
| 22 | Mr Mr I think it 's implicit in our own nature and in our own character and a known fact that we are constituted here as a general assembly and we indeed ascribe to that and I do n't think we need to affirm it on a lower level of what is in fact the very standard of our existence here er in a general assembly . |
| 23 | It should be identified either in a general way with matter as understood by the corpuscularians or , more specifically , with the particular arrangements or ‘ textures ’ of corpuscles which constitute real essences . |
| 24 | But because the demand for central control has arisen out of a general dissatisfaction with education , and this dissatisfaction is often directed towards an excess of ‘ creativity ’ in the classroom , a lack of a disciplined work-force , it is generally assumed that the central common curriculum to be nationally accepted would be down-to-earth , factual , able to be assessed , and marked by a tick or a cross . |
| 25 | View from City Road , page 25 Polly buys in : Shares in Polly Peck Far East have been suspended ahead of a general offer by majority shareholder Polly Peck International for the remaining equity . |