Example sentences of "the [noun sg] of [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | In the development of illness , therefore , a combination of external and internal factors is involved in the majority of cases in the production of the original imbalance , and this imbalance can occur on any level , depending on the main thrust of the external stress . |
| 33 | The diagnosis of gonorrhoea in man can thus be confirmed in the majority of cases within the time it takes to stain and examine a slide of urethral discharge from the penis — a matter of some fifteen or twenty minutes . |
| 34 | This point can be proved in the majority of cases by the observations of the reporting officer . |
| 35 | As is the case in the majority of countries in the world , none of the countries in the Common Market ( with the exception of Southern Ireland ) recognizes venereology or genito-urinary medicine as a distinct specialty . |
| 36 | Within the bird world as a whole , these conflicting interests are resolved in a huge variety of ways , from the steadfast monogamy of the majority of birds to the bewildering polygamy of the dunnock , and from the resplendent tail feathers of the male widow-bird to the male pied flycatcher 's deceit . |
| 37 | The study found that the majority of takeovers in the EC outside the UK took place between non-listed or private companies and that , once agreement was reached between the parties , the barriers to takeovers were relatively low . |
| 38 | Consequently an artificial odorizer in the form of tetrahydrothiophen is added to North sea gas at the off shore terminals to achieve a ‘ distinctive smell ’ similar to the characteristic smell of coal-gas , as required by regulations made under s.26(1) of The Gas Act 1972 — the intention being no doubt to ensure that the majority of members of the public are able to detect a gas leak by its characteristic odour . |
| 39 | The majority of members of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers have voted to take industrial action over their workload . |
| 40 | Despite the rise in female employment , women today perform the majority of tasks within the household . |
| 41 | The majority of deliveries to the distribution centres are now also being despatched directly from the Slough filling lines without being stocked on site , with a new system of bar coding for ‘ full pallets ’ made up of single product lines . |
| 42 | I am sure the majority of taxpayers in the rest of Britain are now resentful of the huge cost of rebuilding and compensation for retaining the status quo in Northern Ireland . |
| 43 | The majority of hairdressers in the North West have at one time been trained by him . |
| 44 | The majority of holdings in the uplands of Great Britain are farmed by owner-occupiers with an ageing population of farmers . |
| 45 | The majority of deputies from the opposition bloc were absent from these sessions . |
| 46 | It has been known for some time that the majority of fibres from the left and right eyes converge upon single cells in the visual cortex of the cat and monkey ( Hubel and Wiesel , 1967 ) . |
| 47 | As would be expected , the majority of senses of the constituent words are related to property and its purchase ( e.g. ’ leasehold ’ , ’ house ’ , ’ home ’ , ’ first ’ , ’ time ’ , etc . ) . |
| 48 | The House will be aware that the majority of contracts for the development of this aircraft have already been let , including the radar selection which my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State announced on 8 May 1990 . |
| 49 | There is , for example , virtually no economic justification for retaining any hedgerows at all on the majority of farms in the southern and eastern counties of England . |
| 50 | Theddlethorpe in Lincolnshire and Bacton in Norfolk bring the majority of gas to the South West , having been transported along subsea pipelines from offshore production platforms . |
| 51 | The majority of MPs in the Hague parliament believe that there are strong economic and social reasons for the continuation of the nuclear industry . |
| 52 | For example , dictionaries can also be used to define unknown words , relying on the assumption that the majority of words in the definition will already be known by the user . |
| 53 | Service industries account for the majority of employment in the economy , but the rate of growth varies between industries and some industries are contracting in employment terms . |
| 54 | Consequently , the majority of participants in the group discussion had been in coal mining but now had jobs as unskilled workers in factories . |
| 55 | It 's the only , and it 's only because , and this is , I mean , having to understand why Government , surely the majority of supporters of the present Government would n't approve of this . |
| 56 | Irons and radios had been the only appliances owned by the majority of consumers before the War and they were joined by electric fires at the end of it . |
| 57 | This strategy has two basic flaws : * it assumes that the profile of the " average consumer " is adequately representative of the majority of buyers within the market . |
| 58 | 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 . |
| 59 | The majority of seats in the March 1990 elections [ ibid. ] went to groups supporting Estonian independence , principally the Estonian Popular Front ( 43 seats ) and the Association for a Free Estonia ( 35 seats ) . |
| 60 | The majority of seats in the People 's Assembly are held by members of the Socialist Party of Albania . |