Example sentences of "[noun] of [art] majority of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Titled ‘ Frederic Bazille : Prophet of Impressionism ’ , it is an enlarged version of a show that was held earlier this year in Montpellier , repository of the majority of the artist 's works . |
| 2 | Although supplementary pensions and allowances ensure that basic needs are met , those who are entirely dependent upon them certainly suffer some degree of hardship compared with the standard of living of the majority of citizens , and strenuous efforts are being made to raise the level of the government 's ‘ guaranteed income ’ . |
| 3 | The submissions for the defendants included the following : ( i ) a local authority , such as the council , is controlled by elected councillors and the ability to control such a council by the vote of the majority of councillors is the objective of political activity . |
| 4 | However , the recovery plan 's future , and that of the ruling coalition government , was placed in serious doubt when it was opposed by the Christian Democratic Party ( PDC ) , the holder of the majority of seats in the Legislative Assembly . |
| 5 | A detailed assessment of the majority of the SSAPs is outside the scope of this book , except for SSAP2 which is discussed below and SSAP9 which is discussed in detail in Chapter 12 . |
| 6 | This has been generated , perhaps , more by past failures than by any great desire on the part of the majority of people for more participatory forms of decision making . |
| 7 | This allows little opportunity for self-actualization on the part of the majority of organizational members ( those in the lower occupational strata ) . |
| 8 | Here … the payment of the majority of the men each week takes place four and a half thousand men are handed their wages by the pay-clerks in less than ten minutes . |
| 9 | We have upheld our pledge that Northern Ireland will remain an integral part of the United Kingdom in accordance with the democratically expressed wishes of the majority of the people who live there . |
| 10 | We hope the council will now take the opportunity to act in accordance with the wishes of the majority of villagers . ’ |
| 11 | It will prevent the government pushing thro' policies ( such as the poll tax ) which are contrary to the wishes of the majority of the citizens . |
| 12 | If this cycle obtains , then it is argued that government is controlled , and public policy is congruent with the wishes of the majority of the electorate for most of the time . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , the general conclusion of observers was that the vote , however flawed , was the most free expression of Romanian opinion that was possible under the circumstances , and that the victory of the NSF reflected the wishes of the majority of Romanian voters . |
| 14 | This is now so widely accepted that it seems less like a theory , or even a theoretical framework , than a piece of common sense ; and in one form or another it encompasses the views of the majority of Anglo-American philosophers and neuroscientists about the basis of consciousness or , at the very least , of perception . |
| 15 | On the 2nd November 1917 the Balfour Declaration was issued with total disregard for the views of the majority of the population ( i.e. well over 80% ) . |
| 16 | In contrast to the views of the majority of local law societies , the Conference of Presidents and Secretaries concluded that existing conflict rules were ineffective , and they reluctantly supported the introduction of a prohibition . |
| 17 | Indeed , the results of recent research suggest that abnormalities of prostaglandin metabolism may lie at the heart of the majority of the chronic degenerative diseases — defects in particular enzymes giving rise to different aspects of chronic disease . |
| 18 | L. 41 ) , provided the main inspiration for the argument of Woolwich , and the judgments of the majority of the Court of Appeal , in the present case . |
| 19 | Though Pirelli insists its approach is ‘ friendly ’ , it also claims the support of a majority of Continental 's shareholders . |
| 20 | Pressure for Hawke to resign increased in mid-December , with several delegations of senior ALP figures informing him that he could no longer count on the support of a majority of the parliamentary caucus . |
| 21 | It then comes to the practical point , Citing German experience to show that ‘ there was a tendency for employee and shareholder representatives to vote and act in distinct groups ’ , they add that the presence of co-opted directors on the board would mean that either group would at the very least need to gain the support of the majority of the directors before they could carry or veto a proposal . |
| 22 | As a result they were endowed with both the legitimacy of their official role and the popular support of the majority of users . |
| 23 | Although they have gained the support of the majority of MPs , but when the submission reached the Council of Ministers , they unfortunately find that their representations have been shelved . |
| 24 | When the hon. Gentleman finally gave me a straight commitment across the Dispatch Box to abolish GP fund holding , I told him that he delivered the support of the majority of GPs by doing so . |
| 25 | He had , however , succeeded in demonstrating to President Ratu Penaia Ganilau that he had the support of the majority of the FPP leadership behind him . |
| 26 | He said people in Britain must realise that such attacks did not have the support of the majority of Irish people . |
| 27 | The description of the majority of demonstrators as ‘ self-righteous prigs ’ is just silly . |
| 28 | The main flaw with the system of categorisation of my work was the omission of the teaching component of the majority of these activities . |
| 29 | However , it is that means that over the last few years every time we have actually debated about budget we recognised that the force had unwillingly and against the judgement of the majority of this council , not necessarily er bounded by political affiliation , we have to be getting down further and further towards the completely inaccurate expanded spending assessment that is assessed as necessary for the needs of this city by the department of the environment . |
| 30 | Secondly the decision is a nineteen ninety one budget by the Chancellor of the Exchequer who raised the level of the Value Added Tax to seventeen and a half per cent from fifteen per cent hit the income of the majority of County Federation and certainly the National Federation because Customs and Excise when VAT was introduced ruled that the annual subscriptions was made VATable . |