Example sentences of "be that [art] [adj] majority " in BNC.
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| 1 | It said , the key finding of the survey is that an overwhelming majority of the Trusts are reporting an improved performance . |
| 2 | ‘ The achievement of the uprising , ’ says the journalist Nahum Barnea , ‘ is that the vast majority of Israelis who were happy with the status quo are now much more unhappy with it . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ The achievement of the uprising , ’ says the journalist Nahum Barnea , ‘ is that the vast majority of Israelis who were happy with the status quo are now much more unhappy with it . ’ |
| 4 | As we approach Christmas the real tragedy is that the vast majority of our friends — good , sincere people , most of them — will not get within a mile of the real meaning of Christmas . |
| 5 | The other difference is that the vast majority of successful candidates would undoubtedly fail the exams for entry to the higher levels of the bureaucracy . |
| 6 | Part of the answer is that the vast majority of service personnel who answer telephones , serve in shops and deal with the great British public are female . |
| 7 | Christians need to be ready for it , and the most alarming aspect is that the vast majority have never |
| 8 | The sad fact is that the vast majority are failing to realise their evangelistic potential , preferring to concentrate on spiritual nurture of the existing group members . |
| 9 | The problem is that the vast majority of stand alone fax machines are set up to send faxes in low resolution . |
| 10 | What concerns me is that the vast majority are not coming to enjoy the Park but are using the roads as convenient thoroughfares . |
| 11 | My impression is that the great majority of those who have entered the field have merely applied their particular area of expertise to this fascinating molecule . |
| 12 | The general impression of investigators is that the great majority of the graduates , in spite of certain difficulties , enjoy their work . |
| 13 | now this particular question , this , it 's a very solemn and searching question , it belongs to a group of three questions found in the New Testament which have to do with a matter of salvation , the first one is , we wo n't look up the reference and that for time this morning , the first one is the question that the disciples put to Jesus , who then can be saved , that 's in Matthew , chapter nineteen , then there 's this one in Luke thirteen , are there few that be saved and then that very , very personal question that was put not to Jesus but to Paul by the Philippinean jailer in act sixteen , what must I do to be saved , three questions in the new testaments about salvation , who then can be saved , are there few that be saved , what must I do to be saved , you know as Christians you possibly found yourself , asking yourself the , the same question that these people put to Jesus , why are there so few Christians , look about our own town , think of your own neighbourhood , your own street , think of the place where you work how few there are who are followers of Jesus Christ , how few there are who have committed themselves to Jesus Christ to of receive him as their saviour , who 've have accepted him as saviour , how few there are when you compare it er to all the others who are rejecting him and er who are living their life regardless , how true it is that the great majority of people seem in , in this present day to have little time for God or for the things of God , they 've got time for all sorts of other things , but God and his claim on their life is crowded out , how many there are like that , how few there are who have submitted to Jesus Christ and have received him as their saviour or so it seems . |
| 14 | The result was that the vast majority of those attending the initial meeting went home and stayed home , and the Group , as far as I am aware , achieved little . |
| 15 | What was significant was that the vast majority of these appeals were rejected , and that while the Court had no means of enforcing its opinion , its verdicts were accepted , if not immediately implemented . |
| 16 | Erm I mean one one fact that emerged after the the riots , when the actual arrest figures were were analyzed , was that the vast majority of people who were arrested at any rate , did n't come from the area . |
| 17 | One rumour circulating recently was that the vast majority of the 250 job losses would be from Barlaston . |
| 18 | The first was that the large majority of intentional killings within the family , or other existing personal relationships , were excluded from the death penalty , leading Professor Glanville Williams to remark : |