Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] of [n mass] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | All things considered the response of people to the proposed scheme can hardly be described as ‘ extraordinary ’ . |
| 2 | The majority of MPs in the Hague parliament believe that there are strong economic and social reasons for the continuation of the nuclear industry . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But the rise of the PLO made the whole issue more dangerous and complex , partly because it became unclear whether the majority of people in the West Bank wanted either Jordan or the PLO back , and partly because Jordan 's East Bank population was 40 per cent Palestinian . |
| 5 | I have concentrated on mortgage arrears and repossessions above , but it 's worth remembering that the HBAI report reminds us that the majority of people in the lowest 10% rely on rented accommodation . |
| 6 | sentiments of the majority of people in the borough … |
| 7 | ‘ The majority of people in the countryside , as evidenced by their public support of hunting and all its associated activities , such as point-to-points and pony clubs , believe that … foxhunting , controlled and under proper scrutiny , is the most acceptable method of controlling the fox population . ’ |
| 8 | Now when interest charges fall , the person who is buying the house benefits from the reduction in interest charges , but the person who is renting a house in local authority and then in this case nobody , nobody else in Harlow to rent it from , is faced with , not with a decreased monthly rental , but with an ever increasing one because as more and more Council houses are sold the cost of maintaining that there , the superstructure of the town , the cost of maintaining Council houses goes on increasing and so the burden is laid on the tenants and the tenant can find , will find himself that pound for pound increasing his rent while the house owner is decreasing his mortgage charges and at the end of the day the tenant is paying increased rent , increased rate and with nothing to show for it , erm , I 've always been in favour of a sale , of , of property er owner occupiers , but not at the expense of the people who can not afford to be owner occupiers , ah , to my mind , the present housing system is designed to maintain the existing class structure because even with the large discounts that one gets and nobody 's ever yet convinced me that why you should get a discount because you buy a Council house , but if you buy one privately owned you ca n't get a discount and it , there 's , this , this is so utter nonsense , but it is throwing a much heavier burden every time a house is sold on the remaining houses which are for rent , and so you that , although the idea is to make it a classless this society with more and more people owning their own properties the mo the mere fact that the majority of people in the town can not afford to buy even the reduced priced Council house , is an example that the , the system , the class system a division by income still exists . |
| 9 | Some of the changes could have a transforming impact — by 2056 , for example , the majority of people in the US will no longer be of white , European extraction . |
| 10 | Yeah oh yes he oh and he was erm being better educated than the majority of people in the Pleck he used to stand outside the Brown Lion to read the newspaper out to them cos they could n't read , and he attended all the weddings , all the funerals and er made the wills out and he almost was the father confessor for the Pleck , and when the old steam tram came off the lines down in the Pleck , when there was a steam train coming through there , he was the man who put it on the rails again . |
| 11 | Which is another point , really , that people I find even if they appeal for witnesses about something that 's gone wrong , people are very hesitant , the majority of people in the community are frightened of being witnesses , |
| 12 | At the time of the Council this was surely the characteristically conciliar expression which mattered most to the majority of people throughout the Church . |
| 13 | One fisherman waxed lyrical about the variety of fish in the river . |
| 14 | During 1985/86 the Archive was working on a major contract to the BBC for the provision of data for the Domesday Project — a commemoration of the 900th anniversary of the Domesday Book to be released on video-disk by the BBC in December 1986 . |
| 15 | According to John Bridges of EIT 's stockbrokers Keith Bayley Rogers the new administrators appointed by the Court , have the support of 75% of the company 's creditors which , it is hoped , will soon lead to the settlement of the creditors voluntary arrangement . |
| 16 | Without the support of people at the top , no one is likely to confront organisational defensive routines . |
| 17 | The Professional Boxers ' Association would try er , many years ago , and it did n't have the support of people like the G M B and the S P F. |
| 18 | It may not necessarily impair the reliability of data in the computer that you feed in something which will produce a result more favourable to a customer than the store holder intended . |
| 19 | The advantage which this scheme affords is a 25% reduction on normal subscription rates or , in the case of staff between the ages of 18 and 24 years , a reduction of 40% . |
| 20 | Many Democrats argued the need to " compensate " for the centuries of white male dominance , and , in so doing , to address the many " disguised " job barriers which continued to hamper the progress of minorities within the labour market . |
| 21 | Despite attempts to diminish the drain of people from the depressed areas the flow to the south continued . |
| 22 | But actually it does n't tell you anything about the quality of the care which they 're purchasing and the evidence that we are getting increasingly from the community health council is the experience of people of the health service is that actually the quality of the care is getting worse and this is not due to the staff in the health ee the more detailed plans coming to the next meeting of the e the more detailed plans coming to the next meeting of the for an operation er , four years , it should to be said er , she 's been waiting despite the government 's claim that all operations are done within two years er for very severe varicose veins and surprisingly enough she got them because of course most varicose have been removed her , the north-east Thames region erm , and er she turned up on the Wednesday and the operation had been postponed twice previously er , she was er gone through all the er , various tests which took her four hours cos she had to find all the places herself , there was nobody to show her to X-ray and various other places erm she was prepared for the op and then was sent home because there was n't a bed available ! |
| 23 | For the time being , it remains true that most studies require some form of typing activity ( key punching ) in the preparation of data for the computer . |
| 24 | In the documents relating to the purchase of works from the Hermitage , discussed between Colnaghi and Knoedler , no French rococo painting was singled out , only one Italian eighteenth-century painting was mentioned , and no seventeenth-century Italian or French pictures were discussed . |
| 25 | On March 22 the former President and three others were charged with profiting personally from the purchase of aircraft by the government in 1989 . |
| 26 | Instead of using the Lasswellian framework for the study of the media 's effect on , say , individual voting preferences — namely , what is ‘ the effect of the media on the election ’ — Seymour-Ure suggests that one should rephrase the question as follows : ‘ What is the function of media in the electoral process ? ’ |
| 27 | Tentative agreement was also reached on the payment of $400,000 by the USA to settle 108 Iranian small claims , mostly by naval cadets forced to leave the US after the revolution . |
| 28 | But the discharge may be refused or postponed if he has been guilty of certain offences or misconduct in connection with the bankruptcy , or if his assets are insufficient for the payment of 50p in the £ , unless this is shown not to be due to the debtor 's fault . |
| 29 | Thus by the beginning of 1797 , discounting contributed to a situation in which the adding of £200,000,000 to the debt secured an effective loan of only £108,000,000 . |
| 30 | I must here point out to you that any attempts on the part of people outside the project to have any contact with the child will be vigorously rejected . |