Example sentences of "[verb] the general " in BNC.
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| 31 | Using the General Health Questionnaire and their own measures of social interaction and of recent life experiences , Henderson and his colleagues interviewed a large random sample of adults in Canberra . |
| 32 | It does little to promote the general public understanding of the sport when riders whose only role will be in the supporting competitions are mixed in with those in pursuit of the World Cup . |
| 33 | And given the general increase in mobility , would even a massive increase in investment in railways make much difference to road traffic ? |
| 34 | Given their concern that only well-founded ideals of the good , and not any ideal one believes in , should be implemented , and given the general knowledge of human fallibility , it is not really surprising that the original position does not yield a commitment to any particular ideal . |
| 35 | Given the general anxiety to avoid long-term indebtedness , a stated preference for small instalments — even at the expense of a long repayment period — must often be interpreted as recognition of tight budget limits that rule out larger instalments . |
| 36 | Genetic variation could result from a balance between mutation and selection , or from balancing selection alone ; given the general difficulties of finding the causes and genetic basis of polygenic variation , it is hard to take this line of evidence further . |
| 37 | Given the general distrust of authority amongst the user population and the problems encountered in obtaining treatment and successfully coming off in the community , there is obviously a need for a service which is seen by users to be impartial . |
| 38 | Once it has been acknowledged that linguistic differentiation is a particularly salient manifestation of the tendency of communities to mark out gender distinctions by a variety of means , it is difficult , given the general orientation of current sociolinguistics , to progress further in finding a convincing explanation of linguistic sex-marking . |
| 39 | It was weeks since she 'd seen Elaine , and she had n't even asked her how she felt about James being given the general managership , albeit only temporarily as yet . |
| 40 | Within the small towns , apparently independent bath-houses are more common than might have been expected given the general level of amenity provision ( fig. 5 D–H ) . |
| 41 | Some of these were long overdue , given the general advances in technology which the organisation had not yet fully taken advantage of . |
| 42 | These arguments have assumed increasing significance given the general economic situation and the strategies of the present government . |
| 43 | Given the general background of the Bill 's legislative history , and its late application to the children 's hearings system , it is hardly surprising that there is an apparent , though fundamental , ambiguity in its provisions in relation to children 's hearings . |
| 44 | ‘ Given the general caution and lack of opportunities recently for management buy-outs and buy-ins , we now have £40 million available for investment in small companies , which is currently tied up in blue chips . ’ |
| 45 | Aggregate supply , on the other hand , is the amount that firms want to produce given the general level of wages and prices . |
| 46 | Before getting to such details , we first review the general considerations of policy regimes . |
| 47 | Each ganglion gives off two pairs of principal nerves , one of which supplies the general musculature of the segment and the other innervates the muscles of the legs . |
| 48 | It is wrong to deal with the needs of the poor by encouraging the general population to a wasteful use of energy supplied at a price too low in relation to its present environmental costs and the detriment of our descendants from the rapid exhaustion of fossil fuel reserves . |
| 49 | I fear the general public will find they can get along quite well without universities for a day . ’ |
| 50 | The first demarcation is between what is and is not ‘ higher education ’ ; this constitutes the general boundary within which knowledge and curricula are structured . |
| 51 | Gravelle ( 1977 and elsewhere ) and others have formulated the general problem of a public firm subject to a rate of return constraint , as follows : where Y is the firm 's output vector , X is the firm 's input vector ( |
| 52 | In September the Council formulated the general directive quoted in the previous chapter ( see p. 207 ) and the next year , just before it broke up , two new members actually advocated the suppression of polyphonic church music altogether . |
| 53 | In the early days I had been a bit disappointed that the NUJ had n't immediately leapt to John 's defence , but ever since I had first been to see the General Secretary , Harry Conroy , and his assistant , Tom Nash , the union had done what it could to respond to what was asked of them . |
| 54 | Failure to see the general principle that lies behind such simple , common-know edge , facts as these has often led anthropologists to write a great deal of nonsense . |
| 55 | After he 'd been offered the job Archie had been taken over the new building to see the general layout . |
| 56 | In that case the trial judge had regarded the general level of awards in the class of case with which he was dealing as " unacceptably low " , and had made an award above the generally accepted bracket . |
| 57 | The overall picture of usage with bid tends therefore to confirm the general view of the infinitive proposed here . |
| 58 | ( 1 ) The subsection imposes the general prohibition . |
| 59 | And Jill Duffy 's succinct comment summarizes the general situation : |
| 60 | A. McCormick summarizes the general opinion thus : ‘ probably the very crimes attributed to him were essential to terrorize his gang and bring them to subjection . |