Example sentences of "of the majority of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | This maintenance of the divine cults marked an important distinction between the official religion , which they represented , and the religious practices of the majority of Egyptians . |
| 3 | The description of the majority of demonstrators as ‘ self-righteous prigs ’ is just silly . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | As a result they were endowed with both the legitimacy of their official role and the popular support of the majority of users . |
| 9 | Bill Clinton is no miracle-worker , but he is much closer to the gut instincts of the majority of Merseysiders , who believe elected leaders have a key role to play in building a fair society . |
| 10 | The group may become self-perpetuating and exclusive , failing to encourage the involvement of the majority of parents ; or be badly led by a bunch of incompetents who cause chaos and disaster with every move they make . |
| 11 | More likely in statistical terms is that it will close down even earlier due to judicious coaches ' or managers ' recommendations on the inadequacy of the majority of aspirants ‘ to make the grade ’ . |
| 12 | In July 1940 , following France 's military defeat and occupation by the German army , Tixier-Vignancour was one of the majority of deputies who abolished the Third Republic and voted plenary powers to Marshal Petain . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | In the past the attitude of the majority of teachers has been one of ‘ tell us what you want and we will provide it ’ . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 ’ . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | In the building industry land stock is perhaps more significant in the balance sheet of the majority of builders than trading stock . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Although Rein and Miller describe themselves as ‘ normative egalitarians ’ , any of the above positions may not be close to the view of the majority of economists or , more importantly , of the public at large . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |