Example sentences of "the [noun sg] of [noun pl] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our case is that , while the nature of the social relations at the workplace is clearly an important differentiating characteristic of the Dukeries field , they are probably a necessary but insufficient factor to account for the response of miners there to the 1926 and 1984 calls to strike . |
| 2 | In other words , instead of preserving a level of insider employment L 1 at a lower real wage rate w 2 , the level of employment among insiders falls to L 2 owing to the inability of insiders directly to influence the real wage rate . |
| 3 | The majority of builders therefore prepare a second set of accounts known as the cost accounts . |
| 4 | The fact that the majority of families now only have two children may add additional value and intensity to the sibling relationship . |
| 5 | Why were the majority of clubs not asked for their thoughts on the changes ? |
| 6 | I shall now endeavour to show that the lack of real happiness manifested by the majority of adults today is due to the fact that they are experiencing , not an improving , but a continually deteriorating use of their psycho-physical selves . |
| 7 | In the majority of cases however , the valuation engagement will be value added , where the firm uses information , which may already have been the subject of validation , enquiry and analytical procedures or information gathering work , to derive a conclusion in the form of an estimated value or range of values for a particular purpose . |
| 8 | The evidence for destruction of buildings is almost non-existent and the human remains of ‘ the victims ’ in the majority of cases clearly belong to organized burials in small cemeteries , post-dating the occupation of some of the villa buildings . |
| 9 | Whereas the older ‘ career ’ users served their ‘ apprenticeship ’ at a time when the majority of users also injected , this fund of knowledge was not readily available to the new users . |
| 10 | These twin problems of psychological dependence and social pressure were regarded by the majority of users as more difficult to overcome than the physical aspect of their addiction . |
| 11 | Can he confirm that there will be no discrimination against state schools , for which the majority of parents still exercise a preference , or in favour of the segregated education system that the Roman Catholic Church and most Catholic parents want to maintain ? |
| 12 | The majority of mothers just could n't care less . |
| 13 | As yet , very few people were about , the majority of holiday-makers still at breakfast . |
| 14 | Old Hall yes , yes , yes , yeah and so I think and of course erm I have talked erm I talk in the different clubs you know , as I say , and I think erm the majority of women usually like this , they look forward to the divi to buy say a major item , you know . |
| 15 | The majority of teachers also examine the results by looking at : |
| 16 | No vote was taken , but the majority of delegates reportedly expressed a preference for the retention of the present de facto one-party system . |
| 17 | Strange really as the majority of games early in his career were in mid-field as deputy for E.Gray . |
| 18 | The majority of hotels now use the printed registration forms ( Fig. 3.8 ) because of their many advantages : |
| 19 | The majority of hostels now offer family accommodation and all provide excellent , free , self-catering facilities , though breakfast ( £2.30 ) , packed lunch ( £1.95 ) , and evening meal ( from £3.50 ) are widely available and some hostels even run to a wine list . |
| 20 | The majority of sub-contractors either price an extract from the bill of quantities or prepare an estimate from the drawings and specification . |
| 21 | In 1872 the Catholic Archbishop Cardinal Manning announced that the majority of clerics now believed that there was nothing incompatible between evolutionary science and their own theological system . |
| 22 | In British public schools , for instance , not only are the majority of pupils deliberately drawn from that small section of British society committed to the standards which the public school promotes , but teaching staff are similarly rigorously selected , not merely on the basis of academic competence , but also on the basis of the extent to which they have successfully internalised the standards they are expected to foster among their pupils . |
| 23 | The expansion of the past few years has resulted in the majority of subjects now reaching a size at which they are academically viable in terms of staffing and the portfolio of courses they can offer . |
| 24 | In the three years that the revised scheme has now operated the Council has noted that the majority of bodies clearly have been able to submit their applications well within that timescale . |
| 25 | The majority of readers probably regard these features as self-evident , but they may not be aware of the speed with which UK society has changed in the last three decades , or , as we shall see , of the effects on areas which have not shared in the process . |
| 26 | And if the reading public as a whole is shrinking , if literature is increasingly relegated to the schools as something ‘ to be studied ’ — if , in a word , the majority of readers now are scholars ( whether students or professional academics ) — then the claims of literary theory to be our representative literary genre become stronger still . |
| 27 | The 4GL runs on top of multiple databases , including Oracle , Informix , Ingres and Sybase , as well as the Cobol-based flat file systems that still act as a base for the majority of installations out there . |
| 28 | The majority of children today are born to married couples . |
| 29 | The majority of children under 16 live with both their natural parents . |
| 30 | The majority of architects also stated that it was now competitive forces which determined fees . |