Example sentences of "[art] majority 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 | Despite this perceived impotence , a majority of teachers are in favour of going on to another round of reviews and reports . |
| 13 | The principal weakness of these provisions is that companies ( especially , but not exclusively , private ones ) are deplorably dilatory in delivering returns to the Registrar so that at any one time a majority of companies are in arrear to a greater or lesser extent . |