Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [prep] [n mass] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The majority of people also voted for parties which advocate a Scottish parliament , but the Government rejects it . |
| 2 | The fact that the majority of people officially labelled as ‘ criminal ’ by the criminal justice system for the first time , never are again , seems to be a restriction on labelling theory 's potential in this respect . |
| 3 | The majority of people never progress beyond the householder stage . |
| 4 | Do you know , I went in there right and the majority of people never took no blind bit of notice then suddenly one person walked through the door , you know , he 's always playing next to me and he sits down , puts his trumpet there , gets his trumpet on ya , sits there , turns round and the next thing he were laying on the floor going |
| 5 | Rudston is basically a farming community , but mechanisation and modernisation have resulted in much less employment than of old and the majority of people now travel out of the village to work . |
| 6 | Is my hon. Friend aware that in my constituency the majority of people infinitely prefer the council tax to Labour 's alternative — the so-called fair rates , which are nothing but a return to the dreaded rating system that we had before , and which was especially hated in the south of England ? |
| 7 | Like my colleagues in Newport , I have been dismayed by the checks for people over 75 : it is not just the collection of medical facts but the appreciation of the social and personal difficulties of elderly people . |
| 8 | Such increases set a bad example and I hope that managers in the private and public sectors will remember that the setting of pay for those who are high on the ladder affects the willingness of people further down the ladder to respond sensibly . |
| 9 | But these studies looked at the interactions between species only to explore the process by which evolution produced complex adaptive structures . |
| 10 | The most important chairman ( of the municipality ) was a Jlulat from Tazarbu , that is to say from the category of people least involved in the Kufran disputes . |
| 11 | The division of species certainly is n't quite as definite as he supposed . |
| 12 | All too often research and staff turnover testify to a failure to use the talents of people already employed in the enterprise . |
| 13 | as if impelled by some nameless undertow , the mass of people gently flowed towards the doorway , some still holding their sherry glasses aloft . |
| 14 | Curiously enough , the same MPs who opposed the building of barracks never objected to the press-gang nor to the occasional use of conscription to keep the army up to strength . |
| 15 | In the former the outcome will depend on the level of sales actually achieved . |
| 16 | In the former the outcome will depend on the level of sales actually achieved . |
| 17 | The course for staff also included input from the Department of Management Studies , giving them a management skills , as well as a personal development , focus . |
| 18 | We did not believe that any of these should be the subject of charity or whim on the part of people more privileged than ourselves in this society . |
| 19 | The defendants argued that the operative figure was the rent of £600 actually payable , when the plaintiffs ' commission would be £60 . |
| 20 | Cain leaps at once to disastrous conclusions , and the consequence is not the eating of fruit now , but jealousy and cold , calculated murder , fratricide . |
| 21 | Status relates to our concern for our standing in the eyes of people more distant from us . |
| 22 | One of the absolutely necessary qualities of any writer of fiction is the possession of what is called empathy , the ability to see life through the eyes of people very different from oneself . |
| 23 | For example , even the fragment of the research described above suggests that some of the taken-for-granted ideas about the sorts of people most likely to harm their children be subjected to much more critical scrutiny and scepticism . |
| 24 | As Table 17 shows , although the number of items falling into each group varied considerably — with items in their publishers ' hardback ( cloth ) bindings making up the largest single group — most of the groups contained a percentage of defective items which was broad comparable to the figure of 6% already recorded ( above , 3.3.2 ) as the overall percentage for all monographs . |
| 25 | It would be much appreciated if Mr John Devaney , managing director of Eastern Electricity explained in detail what the figure of 50p really relates to . |
| 26 | Unemployment is a major affliction , and at the time of the riots 36 per cent of the workforce in Handsworth was out of work , while the figure for people under 24 years was 50 per cent . |
| 27 | Often there is no such work to be had , but if there is , the asylum seekers should not take it at the expense of people already here . |
| 28 | These are factors such as education , training , language and responsibility which colour the thinking of people so that different impressions result from the same data . |
| 29 | The relative initial velocity of channel activation by cGMP was plotted against the concentration of cGMP either in the presence ( i ) or absence ( ○ ) of calmodulin . |
| 30 | The programme of works over £10,000 to be undertaken during the periods 1st April to 30th June 1990 and 1st July to 30th September 1990 but no such work is scheduled for Juniper Green . |