Example sentences of "the majority of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Disinfection is not a universal requirement nor is it necessary on the majority of surfaces within any food operation . |
| 2 | The difficulties outlined above are overcome by the majority of builders in the terms and conditions under which labour-only subcontractors are employed . |
| 3 | In two of the teams the majority of requests for residential care came from health centre staff , while in the third ( the individual specialist ) self and family referrals accounted for most of these . |
| 4 | Consider in this light the following example : It is unlikely that Shakespeare or the majority of writers in construction of their work imagined the twentieth-century reader or considered the possibility that the reader would be of another race or colour than his own ( the exception to this assumption can be found in later twentieth-century writers ) . |
| 5 | In practice , however , provided that the period scanned is long enough , the majority of citations to each thesis will be recorded . |
| 6 | The Government has set a target date of 1991 for the development of occupational standards relating to the majority of occupations in the UK . |
| 7 | It is doubtful if the image of the conventional family ever accurately described the majority of families in Britain . |
| 8 | The majority of players on both sides have had no competitive cricket since the World Cup . |
| 9 | The majority of footballers in the so-called ‘ glamour ’ clubs have been overpaid and underworked for years , and if some of them were paid what they were worth , they would owe something . |
| 10 | The majority of reports of platelet-aggregation studies in diabetics without clinical evidence of vascular complications have found increased aggregation to various agonists , particularly ADP and collagen ( Sagel et al , 1975 ; Halushka et al , 1971 ; Stuart et al , 1979 ; Halushka et al , 1981 a ; Silberbauer et al , 1981 ; Janka et al , 1983 ) . |
| 11 | It would be unrealistic to expect the majority of researchers from overseas to maintain their UK research interests when they return to their country of origin , or move elsewhere , as many of them do , to the extent that they would wish to complete a paper or papers based on their UK findings . |
| 12 | It would be unrealistic to expect the majority of researchers from overseas to maintain their UK research interests when they return to their country of origin , or move elsewhere , as many of them do , to the extent that they would wish to complete a paper or papers based on their UK findings . |
| 13 | Directors , although often members themselves , are answerable to the majority of shareholders for their actions . |
| 14 | As a result the DES ( 1983 ) forecasts assumed that mature entry rates would fall at the same speed as the fall in 21–25 years olds — who constitute the majority of entrants to HE aged over 20 . |
| 15 | You are quite likely to find specimens of the majority of forms of I , aquifolium and I. x altaclarensis in the garden centres and tree-and-shrub nurseries within striking distance of where you live . |
| 16 | Whereas the majority of respondents from the six CCAB bodies favoured the principle of rationalisation by means of reduction of the number of bodies , 58 per cent of ICAS respondents did not . |
| 17 | The Council of Mortgage Lenders , in line with the majority of respondents in the ‘ other ’ category , supported the maintenance of the status quo as expressed in the question . |
| 18 | Another general observation worth making is that , whereas in the past the majority of students at British colleges were likely to be male ( except perhaps on specialized vocational courses such as fashion design , hairdressing or nursing ) , higher and further education in Britain now attracts almost equal numbers of men and women students . |
| 19 | There is a further factor that feminists have drawn attention to , which is that the majority of students of English are women , whereas the majority of academics teaching it are male , and that the female students have a built-in deference to male teachers and to the minority of male students . |
| 20 | It contained the majority of students in post-compulsory education . |
| 21 | Despite the fact that the majority of students in adult education are women , the majority of volunteers , part-time workers , detached workers , and assistant workers in adult education are women , those with key jobs in the career structure — mostly men — made no recognition of this fact , except in so far as it influenced their assumptions about ‘ relevant ’ curricula and enabled them to plan programmes which depended upon an enormous amount of female exploitation . |
| 22 | Clearly this offers no solution for the majority of students from low-income families , while for most rural children no such alternatives exist . |
| 23 | The majority of youngsters in residential care have experienced at least one previous placement . |
| 24 | In fact , the majority of attenders at day hospitals and day care centres are long-term service users . |
| 25 | Insolvency practitioners may have been the butt for the majority of jokes in this year 's Christmas caption competition — they accounted for 20% of the record number of entries — but David Murphy , an Irish Institute industry student based at The Queen 's University of Belfast , has become this year 's triumphant winner without mentioning any of them . |
| 26 | Abisala pledged to retain the majority of ministers in their posts until legislative elections , scheduled for Oct. 25 . |
| 27 | A decision that a local authority should take proceedings for libel , if the action were available at law , would probably be made by the majority of councillors in defence of the reputation of the council with reference to conduct for which that majority might be responsible ; and the proceedings would be conducted at the expense of the local taxpayers . |
| 28 | The majority of visitors to Hong Kong , however , develop an instant buy , buy , buy mania . |
| 29 | In the majority of cases of late congenital syphilis the condition is in a latent phase , and it may be difficult to decide whether the infection is congenital or acquired . |
| 30 | In the United Kingdom , in contrast to anywhere else in the world , the majority of cases of sexually transmitted disease are seen in clinics staffed by specialists trained particularly to deal with these problems . |