Example sentences of "that the majority " in BNC.
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| 1 | But now , on the basis of a number of well-documented opinion polls , W. Harvey Cox ( 1985 ) argues that the majority in the Republic of Ireland favouring reunification is barely two to one , and that in the island as a whole it is three to two . |
| 2 | By mid-June , the projection of the opinion polls was already suggesting that the majority favouring a measure of divorce legislation was declining so rapidly that by the time of the poll , the noes would have it . |
| 3 | There is a further factor that feminists have drawn attention to , which is that the majority of students of English are women , whereas the majority of academics teaching it are male , and that the female students have a built-in deference to male teachers and to the minority of male students . |
| 4 | The message behind the report is that the majority of parents has got it all wrong . |
| 5 | The gap between the willingness to lend and the capacity to receive is partly due to the fact that the majority of donors have country lending , or granting , targets . |
| 6 | The CBI survey revealed that the majority of distributors feel that their stock levels are at an uncomfortably high level . |
| 7 | The CBI survey revealed that the majority of distributors feel that their stock levels are at an uncomfortably high level . |
| 8 | This would imply that the majority of mustards are hot , but it is only the English mustard that is really fierce . |
| 9 | The fact is that the majority of the Conservative Party supported the appeasement line , through the National government , from before the Abyssinian crisis of 1935 to the Second World War . |
| 10 | There is no doubt that the majority of the Conservative MPs in the National government were quite pleased with the developments in Spain . |
| 11 | Some of the power workers refused to act as a militant vanguard and said that they would only come out when it was clear that the majority of people supported the stoppage . |
| 12 | Although Christianity is the ‘ state religion ’ of Britain , it is often said that the majority of people who are nominally Christian will go to a church only on a very few occasions in their lives — for a Christmas or Easter service maybe , or a family christening . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm sure that the majority of runners have to get money because you can not survive without it , and only a few are in a position to do otherwise . ’ |
| 14 | Most Tory MPs are determined to maintain the tradition that the majority party nominates the new Speaker when the position becomes vacant . |
| 15 | It has often been said that the majority of European farmers live poor , but die rich . |
| 16 | It has been argued , for example , that the majority of the 30,000 government employees in the reafforestation programme in two of the poorest regions of southern Italy are uneconomically employed . |
| 17 | Information collected on the professional experience of front-line practitioners revealed that the majority of police officers w&re more experienced than their social work counterparts . |
| 18 | It is noteworthy that the majority are of plants starting with the letter ‘ A ’ which , as has been explained , proportionately outnumbered the other letters in the Figures . |
| 19 | The grid survey showed that the majority of Britain 's deciduous trees , and 60 per cent of all oaks , were in the ‘ moderately damaged ’ categories , having lost 26–60 per cent of their leaves . |
| 20 | As Figure 5.3 illustrates , it may be derived that teams which are not effectively constituted will have difficulty moving out of the forming and norming stages and that the majority of their time will be spent in these activities ( see Figure 5.4a ) . |
| 21 | Their work also confirmed what had long been suspected : which is that the majority of creatures on Earth are insects , and most of them are beetles . |
| 22 | Moser points out that the majority of small-scale enterprises , of the type described in the informal sector , fit into the character of petty commodity production ( Moser 1978 ) . |
| 23 | The Elton enquiry research showed that the majority of teachers in secondary schools had used detention of individual pupils or groups of pupils but that teachers were divided as to the effectiveness of detention as a sanction . |
| 24 | The question was designed to establish the level of public concern over this development , so there were no positive suggestions , but the low concern rate for most of the problems posed suggested that the majority of people were not worried about this prospect , nor that it would trouble them personally , socially or financially to any great extent . |
| 25 | In spite of this handful of ‘ collaborators ’ , it was nevertheless inevitable that the majority of those serving in the Imperial household should be drawn from among the families which had been connected with the First Empire . |
| 26 | Now while I would accept that the majority of butlers may well discover ultimately that they do not have the capacity for it , I believe strongly that this ‘ dignity ’ is something one can meaningfully strive for throughout one 's career . |
| 27 | When he found that he could demonstrate some discharge in the early mornings e was convinced that his infection had returned , not realizing that the majority of males can produce a certain amount of mucus at the urethral meatus in the morning if they try . |
| 28 | I do n't believe for one minute that the majority of your readers are male , nor that the majority of riders are male . |
| 29 | I do n't believe for one minute that the majority of your readers are male , nor that the majority of riders are male . |
| 30 | The result has been that the majority of boards produced today fall under the blanket description of being funboards , although there are in fact a number of different designs . |