Example sentences of "majority of [noun] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The great majority of changes are from one single field to another , but there are rare cases of students who change both fields . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In the result , when Lord Pearce went with his committee to determine whether or not the agreement was acceptable to the entire population , needless to say he reported that the vast majority of whites were in favour but that there was almost total rejection by the blacks . |
| 6 | The majority of requests were for fiction ( 47% ) or popular non-fiction ( 22% ) . |
| 7 | The great majority of requests were for ‘ ordinary ’ — that is , neither early nor rare — printed books and serials from the stack areas of the Main Building . |
| 8 | The great majority of teaching is at least satisfactory , but 10-20 per cent is less than satisfactory ‘ in some important respects ’ . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Despite this perceived impotence , a majority of teachers are in favour of going on to another round of reviews and reports . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The majority of councillors were aged 45 or over with none under 24 , the oldest being 85 . |
| 14 | The Scottish League Management Committee yesterday claimed the vast majority of clubs were in favour of expanding the number of senior clubs to a total of 40 , however . |
| 15 | The overwhelming majority of victims are from the poorest , most disadvantaged sectors of Indian society — members of Scheduled Castes ( or Dalits ) and Scheduled Tribes ( or Adivasis ) , tribal people in the northeast of India , migrant workers , landless labourers and others who are poor and underprivileged . |
| 16 | Given the opinion poll results in The Guardian today , which show that a clear and growing majority of people are against further moves towards European monetary and political union , does my right hon. Friend find it rather curious that both the Liberal Democrats and the Labour party favour unilateral disarmament on the question of federalism ? |
| 17 | Within each of the broad ICD chapters the vast majority of deaths are of older people ( Table 3.4 ) . |
| 18 | Departmental committees do not have autonomous decision making powers … the vast majority of amendments are of minor importance and the major ones are usually initiated by the government or the Bundesrat ( the Council of Lander Ministers ) . |
| 19 | In that year two hundred and thirty-one daily newspapers served the whole of Africa , with a total circulation of three million copies , yet the majority of sales were at either extremity of the continent : in white-ruled South Africa and Rhodesia in the south , and Egypt in the north . |
| 20 | Unlike previous years the majority of sales were at the cheapest end of the price range , between £100 and £500 with works at the top price of £1,750 harder to shift . |
| 21 | The majority of carers are between the ages of forty and sixty , with some eight per cent under forty . |
| 22 | Such provision was thought to be important in a borough where the majority of housing is in local authority estates with little provision for single people . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |