Example sentences of "to generalize about [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet , except for their poverty , it is not easy to generalize about the poor : their attitudes and assumptions are harder to disinter than those of the dominant and vocal élites . |
| 2 | - If it is difficult to generalize about the style of an author , how much more difficult may it be to generalize about the style of a genre or an epoch . |
| 3 | - If it is difficult to generalize about the style of an author , how much more difficult may it be to generalize about the style of a genre or an epoch . |
| 4 | As for the doorstep survey , this was carried out in order to generalize about the speech of the city as a whole , and in this way to be able to describe modifications to the vernacular that might be of general import . |
| 5 | Any attempt to generalize about the English village is therefore regarded as an affront : bland uniformity is an attribute of the urban population , but the English village is believed to be resistant to any summary . |
| 6 | So it is impossible to generalize about the extent of the provision . |
| 7 | Similarly , it is not easy to generalize about the balance between central and local government when services are administered locally , and that between administrators and professionals within a particular service is equally obscure and variable . |
| 8 | e.g. to generalize about the significance of an event : " The basic weakness of the Treaty ( of Versailles ) lay in the fact that it left the German people in a frame of mind not conducive to a lasting peace . |
| 9 | The multiple causes of migration and the problems which individuals have are so diverse that it is impossible to generalize about the reasons for these differences . |
| 10 | This situation is , of course , only one of an infinite number of models but while it is clearly impossible to generalize about the impact of party politics , any attempt to understand local public administration without reference to the party-political dimension is doomed to failure . |
| 11 | It is clearly naive to talk in general terms about ‘ central government control ’ over local authorities , or indeed to generalize about the relationship at all . |
| 12 | It is very difficult to generalize about the American police because , with the exception of the nationally organized FBI , there are 40,000 police departments at state , county and municipal levels . |
| 13 | If it is hard to generalize about the pattern of farming , it is no easier to summarize the resources or standing of the men who worked on the land . |