Example sentences of "[art] great majority " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nowadays there is little real distinction between Proof and Proof before Answer and the greatest majority of cases heard are Proofs before Answer . |
| 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 | In a follow-up survey , the great majority rated it the best AIDS resource they had seen . |
| 4 | However , this was a fairly necessary compromise : paragraph 2 had already conferred on the Roman catholic church a ‘ special position ’ in the state , on the grounds that the church was ‘ the guardian of the Faith professed by the great majority of its citizens ’ . |
| 5 | Secondly , anti-abortionism is the view of the great majority of the population in both parts of Ireland , as well as the various churches . |
| 6 | The great majority of women wo n't have any abnormalities . |
| 7 | We were well aware of our limitations long before David Steer ( 1980 ) pointed out that ‘ the great majority of crime detections involve little of what the public would perceive as real detective ability ’ . |
| 8 | In the great majority of cases , however , you should encourage any of your employees who have an alcohol problem to seek help and treatment . |
| 9 | ‘ I am doing this in the interest of the great majority of our people , ’ she said . |
| 10 | The great majority of teaching is at least satisfactory , but 10-20 per cent is less than satisfactory ‘ in some important respects ’ . |
| 11 | What is wholly unacceptable is the denial of justice to the great majority of citizens who are not poor enough to qualify for legal aid but not rich enough to risk the costs of litigating an important public law issue in the High Court , the Court of Appeal , and perhaps the House of Lords . |
| 12 | He said the Thatcher years would be seen as the time ‘ in which existing pensioners missed out on the prosperity afforded to the great majority in this country . |
| 13 | Only a mass revolt by AFBD members — which is unlikely - or legal action by particularly aggrieved firms , for example the Commodity Trad ers ' Group , can prevent the great majority of those firms which wish to continue doing business with Americans from signing the commission 's order exempting them from the full rigour of its rules . |
| 14 | ‘ Of course , today 's JA Ashton is likely to be very different from that of our original concept when far fewer people had bank accounts , when the great majority of customers were male and when credit cards had barely hit the scene . ’ |
| 15 | In this respect the National Health Service is unique among the social services : it is the only instance where the great majority of a specific service is the direct responsibility of an organ of the central government . |
| 16 | The support staff is tiny in comparison with that of a Cabinet Minister or US President — about eighty staffworking in Downing Street of whom the great majority ( about sixty ) are clerical and secretarial staff , messengers , clerks , or administrators of the machine . |
| 17 | Mrs Thatcher has been fortunate in that retirements of several senior personnel in the early 1980s gave her the opportunity to influence promotions ; there were thirteen appointments as Permanent Secretary in 1982 alone and she has had a hand in appointing the great majority of Permanent and Assistant Permanent Secretaries since 1979 . |
| 18 | for Maxse , Bridgeman , and the great majority of Conservatives between 1906 and 1910 , the party , if it was to be popular , needed to embrace tariff reform and the gamut of policies with which it was linked , such as social reform and land reform . |
| 19 | The great majority of farmers continue to use minimal quantities of fertiliser although fertility is being depleted ; few governments are tackling the question of the use of their under-populated areas on a systematic basis ; the organizations which serve small farmers have cut back their operations in response to budgetary pressures and in response to the pressure for privatization ; the frequently competent staff of national agricultural research bodies are everywhere starved of funds for transport and field labour . |
| 20 | The family and marriage , in the particular form that it took in Victorian times , was , for the great majority of Engels 's contemporaries a sacred , eternal , and unchallengeable institution . |
| 21 | The great majority live in Reykjavik or a couple of towns close to it , and that leaves the country wonderfully bare , especially in the centre — what remains of the population is concentrated on the coast , where the chief occupations of fishing and farming are best practised . |
| 22 | There is no evidence in the great majority of cases that an altered body clock is in any way responsible , but there is one group of people who suffer from a fairly rare form of insomnia called Delayed Sleep phase Syndrome . |
| 23 | She , for her part , accepted the fact that he was gregarious and , like the great majority of men in those days , tended to congregate with members of his own sex . |
| 24 | There are currently over 28,000 part-time staff in Government Service and , while the great majority of these are in the junior grades , ten per cent of women at Principal level and above ( senior staff ) now work part time . |
| 25 | ‘ The great majority of the pastors try to live in their congregations , ’ he says . |
| 26 | For some it is cows in flowering meadows , for others , cars and cheap central heating ; and for the great majority , both . |
| 27 | The great majority would like to see better and wider roads which would be less congested and safer . |
| 28 | By 2000 the great majority of cars will run on unleaded fuel . |
| 29 | In 1801 the population of England and Wales was under nine million , of whom the great majority lived in rural communities outside London . |
| 30 | Amongst the great majority , the faith of earlier centuries persisted , at least outwardly ; indeed , if we look for a movement of thought and feeling that by the end of the century had penetrated into every class of society except the highest , we shall find it in the revival of ‘ vital religion ’ , or ‘ enthusiasm ’ , as it was also called . |