11.  What they had in common would become irrefutable, objective verity, the stock-in-trade of general knowledge for the educated and interested (few enough in all conscience) of the metropolises of the West.

12.  The computer, which of course doesn't find it at all funny, needs to guess what it is, and needs to rely not just on sentence structure but also on general knowledge about heads, grenades and buckets of sand - general knowledge that computers don't have unless it is built in to them.

13.  He argued that I cannot know that my diary is in the (closed) bottom drawer of my desk unless I have reason to believe that my experience makes that proposition probable; we can suppose, perhaps, that my relevant experience is that I remember having put the diary there five minutes ago and that I do not remember having touched the drawer since, together with my general knowledge of the consistent behaviour of the

14.  In practice, therefore, the judge generally divines the object of a statute merely from perusal of its language, in the light of his knowledge of the previous law and general knowledge of social conditions.

15.  From the 1850s miscellaneous" general knowledge" about the language, literature, and history had been considered as appropriate content for examining potential recruits to the Civil Service, and especially the Indian Civil Service.

16.  The unfairness of this strikes me, since although we are all from families that vote Labour (no working-class Catholic would vote Unionist) Jimmy had been the only one in the class who'd known that Hugh Gaitskell was the leader of the Opposition in the general knowledge quiz.

17.  This is not the time to subject me to some kind of general knowledge quiz ... or to make love to me, although heaven knows I'd like you to.

18.  An emphasis on experience without general knowledge confines pupils rather than educating them.

19.  It is derived entirely from the general meaning of car , together with the semantic properties of the context (remember that general knowledge concerning cars and operations carried out on them is, on the view of meaning adopted in this book, embedded in the meanings of car , wash , polish , etc.).

20.  Such names as Mercer, Shepherd, Painter, Wainwright, Fowler, Weaver, Miller, Carpenter, Slater, Cooper and Hooper are common enough, but there are many more surnames of occupation than modern spellings or general knowledge reveal.