Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] of [noun pl] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The majority of requests were for fiction ( 47% ) or popular non-fiction ( 22% ) . |
| 2 | The majority of councillors were aged 45 or over with none under 24 , the oldest being 85 . |
| 3 | The majority of changes were at minister of state level , including the appointment as Minister of State for Planning of former National Education Minister Kighoma Malima . |
| 4 | The newspapers were particularly impressed by the appearance in Marylebone court of 88 people in a single day , 70 of whom were charged with disorderliness of some sort , although The Times ( 16 August 1898 ) observed that ‘ the majority of cases were of a very ordinary kind ’ . |
| 5 | The majority of owners are above average earners , however , and if higher taxes reduce take-home pay , they will find it harder to take on larger loans . |
| 6 | When you and I joined the force the majority of homicides were like that — family affairs , or at least concerned with intimate human relationships : legacies , jealousies , frustrated passions — always with a powerful personal element . |
| 7 | But by the time of Charlemagne the majority of warriors were on horseback , though it is not clear if they actually fought from horseback or if they used the horses simply as rapid transport for traditional Frankish foot soldiers . |
| 8 | Although children are bussed into the ‘ A ’ schools from poorer neighbourhoods , their location in the richer suburbs means that the majority of pupils are from either black or white middle-class families . |
| 9 | The same logic was evident in the self justification offered by one of the parents who in 1987 withdrew their children from a school in the Yorkshire town of Dewsbury because the majority of pupils were of South Asian origin . |
| 10 | The majority of carers are between the ages of forty and sixty , with some eight per cent under forty . |
| 11 | He pointed out that Northern Ireland has one of the highest levels of unemployment in the UK , at around 14pc , and the majority of households were in the lowest socio-economic groups . |
| 12 | The determinist position , with its assumption that the complexity of causes is at least potentially discoverable , avoids such arbitrary cut-off points and fires researchers continually to attempt to improve their predictive effectiveness ( a point made by Hook , cited , but not heeded , by Matza , 1964 , pp. 10–11 ) . |
| 13 | The funding of CTCs is on a par with that of other local education authority schools , and their recurrent funding will not be different from that of other schools in their areas . |
| 14 | On 27th May 1854 while the Board of Guardians was in session a message was passed in to say that two persons from St. Cuthbert with smallpox had just been brought to the workhouse . |
| 15 | I am convinced that the subordination of women is at the root of the distribution of power within any society . |
| 16 | The mass of instruments was like the cockpit of a seven-four-seven , even down to a control column . |
| 17 | Printed materials published or distributed to accompany petitioning campaigns , in 1792 and 1823–4 for example , were clearly in the first instance intended to produce as many petition signatures as possible ; the mass of petitions was to be the weight behind the parliamentary initiatives of Wilberforce and Buxton . |
| 18 | The Museum Documentation Centre in Zagreb and the Institute for the Protection of Monuments are in constant touch with UNESCO , ICOM , ARCH and other institutions involved in the protection of cultural property . |
| 19 | The bell rang and the sound of doors being unlocked and the thunder of boots were like a mushrooming echo . |
| 20 | The clerk was regarded as ‘ first among equals ’ by the other chief officers , but the co-ordination of services was at a minimum and sometimes non-existent . |
| 21 | If the level of fees is of concern , particularly in the event of a failure to sell , it can be helpful to break down costs and adopt a staged approach . |
| 22 | The future and prosperity of the north-west are best served by a Government who are determined to keep inflation down , who want to keep taxes down — and will not let interest rates rise as the Opposition would — and who recognise that the level of strikes is at its lowest for more than a century . |
| 23 | They felt that the course of events was beyond their influence ; they were living well . |
| 24 | Unreasonable refusal of access to a child in the course of inquiries is in itself a ground for making an emergency protection order where the applicant has reasonable cause to believe that access is required as a matter of urgency ( s44(1) ( b ) and see p149 ) . |
| 25 | Before ground was consecrated at Muker in 1580 , the nearest ground to Keld consecrated for the burial of corpses was at Grinton . |
| 26 | The bulk of translations are from Western languages ( and predominantly English ) into other languages — very little is translated from Chinese or Hindi into Western languages . |
| 27 | The bulk of receptions are under section 2 of the Child Care Act . |
| 28 | The third main contribution of coins to the study of portraits is to their chronology . |
| 29 | This criticism is part of a wider attack on the use of classification of functions as a criterion for deciding issues such as the availability of judicial remedies to control administrative action ( the remedy of certiorari was at one time said to be available only if the decision-maker was under a duty to act ‘ judicially ’ ) , or the applicability of the rules of natural justice in particular circumstances ( sometimes said to apply only to ‘ judicial functions ’ ) . |
| 30 | The most fruitful feature of Pythagorean teaching was the key idea that the essence of things is to be found in the concept of number , which was regarded as having spatial and also temporal significance . |