Example sentences of "be the [adj] majority " in BNC.
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| 1 | Something has got to give and that something has been the vast majority of Third World people . |
| 2 | ‘ There was quite an uproar and the sailors had to help the English for to keep back the Irish , they being the greatest majority . |
| 3 | Local law societies were largely supportive of the proposal ( 42 in favour to 15 against ) , as were the overwhelming majority of ‘ others ’ . |
| 4 | Whereas horizontal mergers , the type most likely to yield production economies of scale , were the vast majority in the 1960s , there has been a steady trend away from horizontal mergers and towards conglomerate mergers more recently . |
| 5 | From the beginning the putsch had been poorly conceived : it had failed to mobilize the support of the pieds noirs or to win over the conscript troops , who were the vast majority . |
| 6 | If we look at the actual numbers of cystoscopies performed you will you see that there were the vast majority of work was done in the lower and intermediate risk group patients er and the positive er cystoscopy rate erm was much lower in the lower risk group , as you would expect , than in the higher risk group . |
| 7 | Well it 's it works best with people who =r mildly depressed in fact , l less so with very severely depressed people , but that is the great majority of people , one in three women with children under the age of five are depressed , for example , so it 's a huge advantage for them to be able to take it and not have side effects . |
| 8 | The other factor we should also bear in mind is the great majority of the people are not only not interested , they 're basically hostile the whole business and I think that members may not have really noticed if they looked at the European newspaper , the highest ever figure , fifty three percent of all the people of Britain are now totally and completely opposed to the whole business of the E C , they do n't think it 's a good idea . |
| 9 | The ‘ culture of contentment ’ — Galbraith might equally have used the phrase ‘ culture of complacency ’ — is the prevailing majority of electors in the US , UK and other advanced economies . |
| 10 | But in only 42 of these is the Tory majority less than 4,000 ( there are 11 more where the main challenger is a Liberal Democrat ) . |
| 11 | The Symposium was at pains to stress that it was the black majority who were to be the prime targets of any campaign . |
| 12 | This constitution , which had its origins in Roman law , made no distinction among the ranks of the cardinals ( i.e. whether bishop , priest or deacon ) as to voting rights and allowed an election even if only a small number of the whole college were present , provided there was the necessary majority . |
| 13 | Their constituency was the silent majority of music paper readers that critics love to sneer at : students , ex-students , and those destined to be students ( sixth formers and fifth formers ) . |
| 14 | In the referendum of 8 January 1961 , seventy-five per cent of the metropolitan population backed de Gaulle 's policy , but an equally significant result was the clear majority of Muslim Algerians who followed the GPRA 's instructions to abstain . |