Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the majority of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So for the majority of formulae that 's all you need to do to make the formulae copyable , so when I got this extra product to insert just insert the rows , copy the formula down and that change is made very quickly indeed , I do n't have to spend a lot of time understanding and editing the formulae . |
| 2 | Not all of these off-site units are administered and funded exclusively by LEAs although this is so in the majority of cases . |
| 3 | Is the Secretary of State further aware that the proposal is welcomed not only by the majority of Londoners , but by all the senior officers of Scotland Yard ? |
| 4 | Thus for the majority of teachers corporal punishment was available as a sanction against pupil misbehaviour until comparatively recently , although some LEAs , about 30 in all , had banned its use prior to then . |
| 5 | How can the poor woman explain that , probably like the majority of wives , she loved him most of the time , when he did n't snore in her ear all night or shout at the kids or keep her short of Bingo money . " |
| 6 | Some schools and LEAs have already begun to construct multicultural and anti-racist policies ; it is up to the majority of institutions that appear not to have grasped the urgency of the issues to follow their lead . |
| 7 | The principal proposals of the Discussion Paper were received favourably by the majority of respondents : these proposals have therefore been retained in this FRED . |
| 8 | Because of the risk of rejection by the ITVA , the vast majority of commercials are first shown to them at script stage , and the discussion and negotiation that goes on in the majority of cases takes place on scripts alone . |
| 9 | Thus , some type of course assessment if not programme evaluation was carried out in the majority of cases . |
| 10 | If it is a customer service that gives advantage , then for the majority of consumers who have minimal communication with branch personnel , it is the personalised quality of the computerised communication systems that constitutes the service quality level . |