Example sentences of "for the majority " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Roman catholic adoption agencies , the source for the majority of children awaiting adoption , are not obliged to assign baptized Roman catholic children to such couples , and whether they do or not is not a matter of public knowledge . |
| 2 | The implementation of this policy was the work in part of the new Roman episcopal appointees , from Cullen onwards , though the growing hatred of the ascendancy because of the famine and their continued landownership must have provided ample cause for separate schools for the majority of Roman catholic clergy . |
| 3 | Indeed , the formula for the majority of comedy on television remains as it was before a ragged man struggled along the seashore , collapsed and panted seemingly with his last breath : ‘ It 's … ’ |
| 4 | Age Concern said : ‘ If local authorities ’ precious stock of properties suitable for elderly people begins to be sold off , the consequences for the majority of elderly tenants in ordinary housing could be very serious indeed . ’ |
| 5 | The teaching of specialist options is relatively expensive ; this might enable universities to maintain intellectual standards at a lower unit cost for the majority of undergraduates while still serving those who need more advanced knowledge . |
| 6 | While a few policemen tried to the bitter end to avoid conversation with the field-worker , sufficient rapport was established over time for the majority to talk quite openly to her about what are highly sensitive and controversial topics in a Northern Ireland context . |
| 7 | This in large part won in return their acquiescence in the research , at least for the majority , even though this was usually a reluctant and resigned co-operation . |
| 8 | On a deeper level , however , as we shall see in later chapters , the identity category ‘ Catholic ’ is , for the majority of policemen and women , not an all-inclusive typification in which every Catholic is categorized alike . |
| 9 | The result of this sensitivity for the majority of respondents was a friendly but uneasy and measured co-operation , although there were extremes at either pole . |
| 10 | In assessing the potential market within a country for the majority of products , and in comparing the potential market of different countires , the most important factors are total income and income per head of the population . |
| 11 | He stresses also the white person 's fear of and fascination with the imagined sexual potency of the negro : ‘ For the majority of white men the Negro represents the sexual instinct ( in its raw state ) . |
| 12 | I am sure this would only be a minority but it is always the minority that spoil it for the majority . |
| 13 | This will be by helicopter and Hercules aircraft , taking less than half a day for the majority of the fighting troops . |
| 14 | For the majority , today is just another training day , but for one group of men breakfast has never tasted so good . |
| 15 | Tolkien brought a response on this level of emotional intensity to those texts which , for the majority of the English Faculty , were the ‘ boring part of the course ’ . |
| 16 | In this he almost certainly spoke for the majority of Lewis 's pupils . |
| 17 | Hopefully such ideas will spread to the rest of the community , but for the majority of this year 's school leavers it will be too late . |
| 18 | The venue , Silksworth , near Sunderland , is as usual for this championship neither central nor convenient for the majority . |
| 19 | The venue , Silksworth , near Sunderland , is as usual for this championship neither central nor convenient for the majority . |
| 20 | The wok is used for the majority of Eastern cookery . |
| 21 | But it is a mistake to think that Mr Saddiqi speaks for the majority of Muslims . |
| 22 | They ask me how much I paid for everything I was wearing , how much I pay for my room at the pension , how much salary I shall be getting at the university — a salary to me ridiculously small , little more than pocket-money , but for the majority of working-class Spaniards a fortune . |
| 23 | Paisley 's rebuttal of Murphy 's claims to speak for the majority of local people was characteristically florid : |
| 24 | For the majority of the population , it seems that , now as before , the ‘ Jewish Question ’ was of no more than secondary interest . |
| 25 | Nor is it good news for the majority of people who already own-especially those who became first-time buyers over the past four years and whose complete capital has been wiped out : more than a million such people are probably technically bankrupt but need not admit it so long as they keep paying their mortgage . |
| 26 | JOHN Major 's income tax cut which Labour described as a bribe should be in the people 's pockets in mid-May , but he should be able to provide an even greater post-election thank you for the majority of voters in the form of a stabilised housing market . |
| 27 | Ipswich were as lethargic at the start of the second half as they had been for the majority of the first and on the hour , in an attempt to liven them up , Lyall brought off Milton and Goddard to introduce Palmer and Johnson . |
| 28 | Almost 70% of Norwegian farmers were part-time , with forestry and tourism accounting for the majority of off-farm jobs . |
| 29 | We will strengthen equality before the law and equality of opportunity for the majority of the population — women . |
| 30 | The former 11th tee box , on what is now the 10th fairway , was sufficiently far back from the road for the majority of golfers to carry the road with their second ( or third ! ) shots , although some doughty souls had a go for the green from the tee using the existing oak tree as being to the left of the ideal line ; ( 3 ) reconstructing the 13th afresh and ( 4 ) taking back the 14th tee box considerably as now . |