Example sentences of "of the majority of [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While battery technology certainly needs to be improved , and this is ongoing by many developers , the batteries available commercially today together with careful design of the vehicle will provide a range that will meet the requirements of the majority of commuters in Los Angeles . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | This was certainly true of the majority of studies before and even till the 1970s , which usually adopted a social anthropological approach ( Arensberg and Kimball , 1940 ) to static or declining farm communities ( Davies , 1970 ) and even by 1 97 1 it was possible for Franklin ( 1 97 1,1 2 ) to argue that ‘ the peasantry , though diminishing in number and importance , still forms the largest single category within the rural community throughout Europe ’ . |
| 4 | The real achievement of headhunting in Britain , which indicates the new maturity of the industry , has been a gradual but discernible change in the attitude of the majority of users of search . |
| 5 | What they each gained separately was a greater individual confidence and capacity for self-determination as women , and each of them fed that confidence back into a variety of struggles to change the position of women , and in the case of the majority of women in that particular group , to a struggle for some kind of socialism . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Their activism is now able to sustain itself independently of the lives , dreams and aspirations of the majority of blacks from whose experience they derive their authority to speak . |
| 8 | He goes so far as to claim that this form of control is now ‘ characteristic of the majority of enterprises in the USA and Britain ’ , thereby denying the predominance of the management control form . |
| 9 | Since there are likely to be a few worms present , even in adult dogs , in spite of the diversion of the majority of larvae to the somatic tissues , it is recommended that adult dogs should be treated every six months throughout their lives . |
| 10 | that the shop stewards would reply to Michael Taylor 's memo to all staff expressing the anger and disappointment of the Union at the manner in which the decision was made , disregarding the strength of feeling of the majority of staff on this issue ; |
| 11 | This has been generated , perhaps , more by past failures than by any great desire on the part of the majority of people for more participatory forms of decision making . |
| 12 | According to official Labour Party policy , any change in the status of Northern Ireland will require the consent of the majority of people in the province . |
| 13 | sentiments of the majority of people in the borough … |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Saxon et al reported that IgG perinuclear antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies could be detected in the sera of the majority of patients with ulcerative colitis and in a much smaller percentage of the sera of patients with Crohn 's disease . |
| 16 | The treatment is successful in 89% of patients and is complete with full recovery of the majority of patients within two to three weeks . |
| 17 | In other words , the example of Forgive us our … is not typical of the majority of speech in suggesting only one likely candidate for the identify of the next word . |
| 18 | When the hon. Gentleman finally gave me a straight commitment across the Dispatch Box to abolish GP fund holding , I told him that he delivered the support of the majority of GPs by doing so . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The intention was to address the needs of the majority of children through a combination of the ‘ broadly-based curriculum ’ and ‘ flexible teaching strategies ’ , and to use additional programmes and resources to cater for certain specific categories of need . |
| 21 | May I ask a question of the majority of manufacturers of wood boring bits ? |