Example sentences of "[prep] the general " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Festival series of four drama presentations , LOCATION BIRMINGHAM , is an opportunity for the general public to discuss with the producers , directors , writers and performers ( if available ) their series : the origins of the idea for the series , the production background , the writers ' viewpoint , audience reaction , future plans etc . |
| 2 | The commentaries would not be designed for the general reader but for the specialist , who , looking up Zapp , would find that the book , article or thesis he had been planning had already been anticipated and , more likely than not , invalidated . |
| 3 | An ambitious lecturer in an English Department is writing for his peer group , not for the general public . |
| 4 | Grass-roots workers recognise the problems being stored up for the general election . |
| 5 | Three of the –e wards which make up Easton have a proportion exceeding 500/0 of households with no car ; one of these wards is above the average for the general area at 53.5 per cent of households . |
| 6 | If one is partly responsible already for the general policy of a Church or for anything else , it is better to be more responsible . |
| 7 | He also answered for the general practitioner , dental and pharmaceutical services . |
| 8 | While there was a general recognition that the matter demanded further discussion , only Dalton urged support for the general thrust of Keynes 's paper . |
| 9 | Bevin agreed with Attlee about the need to forestall the Russians , and took the initiative in drafting a resolution for the General Assembly authorizing the crossing of the 38th parallel with a view to establishing a unified , independent , and democratic government of all Korea . |
| 10 | I think that 's the voice of conscience and the voice of charity and the voice of doing something for the general good . |
| 11 | There is plenty of opportunity for the general sense of ambiguity discussed above to manifest itself at the level of individual projects . |
| 12 | This revolutionary conclusion , which is perhaps the most important for the general reader of The Origin , is one easily supported by modern anthropologists although they might disagree with him about what exactly will happen when the change comes or even whether this kind of change can be predicted . |
| 13 | Morgan still remains the main authority on the Iroquois , but the real problem for the general theory is that confederations of the Iroquois type are not found in many places . |
| 14 | Everyone stands for the general salute — they may be civilian guests , but they have studied the programme avidly and have learnt what to do . |
| 15 | This is why noise groups invariably deal with subject matter that is anti-humanist — extremes of abjection , obsession , trauma , atrocity , possession — all of which undermine humanism 's confidence that through individual consciousness and will , we can become the subjects of our lives , and work together for the general progress of the commonwealth . |
| 16 | They are also aware of the regional and local variations in the support for the General Strike . |
| 17 | Here , as elsewhere , there are difficult questions to be answered : whether membership of a society should involve a positive duty to take care of one 's body for the general social good , either to avoid becoming a burden on other members of the community or even to preserve oneself as a positive contributor to that community . |
| 18 | As a detailed opinion poll conducted in May showed , there was considerable support for the general aims of the strikers — better security and majority-rule devolved government — but there was also a strong sense that the strike was ill advised and would only play into the hands of republicans . |
| 19 | They were , in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries , responsible for the general management of this category of Crown properties — for the felling of timber in the forests for the Royal Navy , for repairs to Crown property , for royal gifts to subjects , or for sale ; for dealing with claims to customary rights in the Forest , for paying the keepers ' wages and for providing hay for the deer in times of scarcity . |
| 20 | One impatient customer , David Pollard , has taken things into his own hands and is rushing out his own edition in time for the general election . |
| 21 | Public support for the General Strike was most evident in Cambridge where students and members of the University were openly supportive and where Pateman arranged a WEA class in public speaking . |
| 22 | No doubt I will request our librarian to get me some of the original references cited but my point is that surely Chemistry in Britain is written for the general interest and education of chemists and ought to be comprehensible to the reasonably trained chemist . |
| 23 | John Pople has set new standards for quantum mechanics , theoretical chemists , and for the general chemistry community . |
| 24 | But these would be for the general benefit , not for the worse . |
| 25 | That we look not for detailed application of single techniques in a piecemeal fashion , but rather that we look for the general developments from which we can build school specific approaches which translate the experience into usable school practice . |
| 26 | Most books which have been written about mental handicap are for doctors , nurses , parents with mentally handicapped children , social workers ; rarely for the general public . |
| 27 | As was noted above , however much one may value identification with one 's community , since it can be expressed by other means than respect for law it can not be a foundation of an obligation to respect the law , nor a basis for the general authority of governments over all their subjects . |
| 28 | The hip scores of both parents are then given and all this information is published in the Club magazine , not only to assist people in the purchase of quality puppies , but also for the general information and education of members . |
| 29 | Nor were new ideas produced by the Labour government for the general elections of 1950 and 1951 . |
| 30 | This was the signal for the general discontent to erupt into action . |