Example sentences of "[prep] the majority of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paradoxical pain may well exist but is neither well documented nor common ; it does not account for the majority of cases of uncontrolled pain , and we are not aware of any evidence that it was an important factor in the care of the patient in the recent highly publicised court case . |
| 2 | Clearly this offers no solution for the majority of students from low-income families , while for most rural children no such alternatives exist . |
| 3 | Insolvency practitioners may have been the butt for the majority of jokes in this year 's Christmas caption competition — they accounted for 20% of the record number of entries — but David Murphy , an Irish Institute industry student based at The Queen 's University of Belfast , has become this year 's triumphant winner without mentioning any of them . |
| 4 | The approximate charge for the majority of places in University Halls of Residence is likely to be around £63 per week . |
| 5 | The approximate charge for the majority of places in University Halls of Residence is likely to be around £64 per week . |
| 6 | RIGHT now , thoughts are inevitably turning to home heating , and the Coal Advisory Service says for the majority of homes in the province , that means solid fuel |
| 7 | For completeness , the remainder of this chapter is devoted to an A to Z list of plumbing tools , materials and equipment that you are likely to need for the majority of jobs around the house . |
| 8 | This learning difficulty has to be ‘ significantly greater … than for the majority of children of his age ’ ; or , he has to have a ‘ disability which either prevents or hinders him from making use of educational facilities of a kind generally provided in schools maintained by the local education authority concerned … ’ . |
| 9 | We collect published and unpublished balance sheet and other data for the majority of banks in the period . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The treatment is successful in 89% of patients and is complete with full recovery of the majority of patients within two to three weeks . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | May I ask a question of the majority of manufacturers of wood boring bits ? |
| 27 | The Council of Mortgage Lenders , in line with the majority of respondents in the ‘ other ’ category , supported the maintenance of the status quo as expressed in the question . |
| 28 | In smaller businesses , job reviews may only take place when the time comes to decide on salary increases and there might be little consultation with the majority of members of staff . |
| 29 | The position thus reached brought English practice into line with the majority of decisions in other Commonwealth jurisdictions . |
| 30 | Medium-sized funds may have a small proportion invested in managed funds , with the majority of assets in its direct control , large pension funds are likely to have totally direct control , whilst smaller funds may simply invest in a range of managed policies . |