Example sentences of "[noun] of [art] majority of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although supplementary pensions and allowances ensure that basic needs are met , those who are entirely dependent upon them certainly suffer some degree of hardship compared with the standard of living of the majority of citizens , and strenuous efforts are being made to raise the level of the government 's ‘ guaranteed income ’ . |
| 2 | The submissions for the defendants included the following : ( i ) a local authority , such as the council , is controlled by elected councillors and the ability to control such a council by the vote of the majority of councillors is the objective of political activity . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | We hope the council will now take the opportunity to act in accordance with the wishes of the majority of villagers . ’ |
| 5 | As a result they were endowed with both the legitimacy of their official role and the popular support of the majority of users . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Although they have gained the support of the majority of MPs , but when the submission reached the Council of Ministers , they unfortunately find that their representations have been shelved . |
| 8 | The description of the majority of demonstrators as ‘ self-righteous prigs ’ is just silly . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | This is not the experience of the majority of prescribers , however , and approaches such as psionic medicine and bio-electronic regulatory medicine find that a number of different remedies are always indicated in a chronic case . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In the past the attitude of the majority of teachers has been one of ‘ tell us what you want and we will provide it ’ . |
| 14 | McKenna , recognising the species specific nature of the sudden infant death syndrome and the relatively narrow time range of the majority of deaths , drew attention to both the relatively long period of physical dependence of the human infant and the ways in which caring practices vary with historical and cultural contexts . |
| 15 | The aim appears to have been two-fold : to reassert the authority of the crown to appoint to military commands and , by a ruthless dismissal of the majority of commanders who had come to assume such commands , to make the army once more an efficient weapon of state in royal hands . |
| 16 | May I ask a question of the majority of manufacturers of wood boring bits ? |
| 17 | Its use of public money to set up a network of city technology colleges in joint ventures with businesses mocked the needs of the majority of children . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | While the politicians and administrators who framed the Act would not have wished to have espoused the notion of the ‘ undeserving poor ’ they felt unwilling to risk the public criticism that would have resulted from an approach to poverty that involved ignoring the potential waste on the ‘ work-shy ’ and the fraudulent application in order adequately to meet the needs of the majority of applicants . |
| 20 | The treatment is successful in 89% of patients and is complete with full recovery of the majority of patients within two to three weeks . |
| 21 | The vote put an end to speculation that the new administration , sworn in on June 19 [ see p. 38311 ] , might not win the approval of the majority of deputies . |
| 22 | Erm the Communist Party needed the approval of the majority of peasants erm before land reform could take place and there was there 's this sort of chicken and egg problem in that how that do you have land reform in order to mobilize peasant support or is it the peasant support that 's going to enable land reform t to take place successfully . |
| 23 | It is now generally accepted in Scottish Education that the above view of the purpose of assessment ( i.e. in order to grade pupils ' performance ) is a limited one and is not the most conducive to the education of the majority of pupils . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The DES survey of Foreign Languages Courses for Adult Students while praising the quality of students ' work as well as the commitment of the majority of teachers confirmed that 52% of foreign language teachers had no training to teach a foreign language at all — although some of them held a general qualification to teach adults ( DES 1988 ) . |
| 26 | On three , if you see then three that we the county council will not support a development of capital , cabinet or executive management , arrangements which would tend to concentrate power in the hands of a relatively few members stifle public debate and diminish the role of the majority of members . |
| 27 | It led to some job losses but it was justified in the company 's longer-term interests — and therefore the interests of the majority of employees . |
| 28 | Already we have looked at the healthy state of the majority of children when they enter this world and how their health tends to deteriorate slowly with time . |
| 29 | While they advocated and worked for such extensions of democracy the European social democratic parties , whether or not they claimed to be Marxist and revolutionary , were also , for the most part , firmly committed to political democracy in the narrower sense ; and where the necessary conditions were present — the legal existence of socialist parties , elections conducted on the basis of ( at least ) universal male suffrage , and participation in parliament and government — they made plain that although they did not renounce extra-parliamentary forms of class action they envisaged the transition from capitalism to socialism as coming about through the will of a majority of citizens , clearly and publicly expressed in elections . |
| 30 | Changes to the social security system have reduced the living standards of the majority of recipients ; but , since women are the main users of the system , they are the main losers . |