Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] [prep] a major " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kielder Water , the largest man-made reservoir in Europe , surrounded by the largest man-made forest in Europe , was opened by HM The Queen in June 1982 , and has been developed into a major water-sports centre . |
| 2 | South Korea 's Environment Minister has been sacked following a major scandal in which tap water in millions of homes twice became severely polluted . |
| 3 | Romania has been hit by a major tragedy with hundreds of young children HIV infected through hazardous medical or nursing treatments . |
| 4 | Football hooliganism has been defined as a major social problem . |
| 5 | The privatization programme has been recognized as a major break with the mixed economy consensus . |
| 6 | Mr Clinton 's landslide victory has been hailed as a major step forward by the country 's two biggest nursing organisations . |
| 7 | The inclusion in the new paintings galleries of eight rooms without skylights exclusively for drawings and pastels has been hailed as a major innovation . |
| 8 | The news has been hailed as a major success for the showpiece centre , currently one of Cumbria 's top tourist attractions and the subject of a recent TV advertising campaign . |
| 9 | A 240K protein previously shown to be tightly associated with the cGMP-gated channel of ROS membranes has been identified as a major calmodulin-binding protein of ROS membranes by affinity chromatography and western blotting . |
| 10 | The chemical multinational ICI has announced that it will close the last of its plants producing halon , a firefighting chemical which has been identified as a major cause of ozone depletion . |
| 11 | The need for developing countries to generate export surpluses to service their debts has been identified as a major cause of environmentally destructive policies such as exploitation of the rainforests . |
| 12 | This dramatic reduction has been accompanied by a major change in course provision ; during recent years , the three-year Certificate of Education course , followed for a minority of students by a fourth year leading to a Bachelor of Education degree , has been completely replaced by integrated three- and four-year courses leading to ordinary and honours BEd degrees respectively . |
| 13 | Since its inception in the early 1970s , genetic engineering has been welcomed as a major scientific breakthrough because of the potential that it provides to manipulate organisms from the most simple life-forms , such as bacteria , to the most complex , including Homo sapiens sapiens . |
| 14 | The impact of increased competition between building societies and banks has been blamed as a major determinant of the observed change in relationships among the various monetary aggregates , and between them and nominal incomes . |
| 15 | Most publishers wo n't pay artists any money until a record has been released in a major market because the publisher has no other way of recouping any investment . |
| 16 | Empirically however , the last century has been dominated by a major movement of people away from the countryside , although in the past 10 or 20 years there has been a significant repopulation of rural areas . |
| 17 | Unemployment remained high by historic standards ( a peak of 3.2 million being reached in April 1985 ) ; but somehow it appeared to have been defused as a major political issue during the eighties , partly through redundancy payments . |
| 18 | And in their survey of 9–13 middle schools , the HMI argued that work was of a higher standard where there was a greater use of subject teachers , and where those subjects had been studied in a major way in higher education by the teachers concerned . |
| 19 | It reflected the growing problem of how to deal with surplus manpower once peace had been made in a major theatre of war . |
| 20 | Taylor was subsequently reported to have denied that he wanted to head a proposed interim government , an insistence which had been perceived as a major obstacle in the peace process [ see p. 37994 ] . |
| 21 | It had been formed from Buffon 's old Jardin du Roi ( the royal zoological and botanical garden ) by the revolutionary government , and had been turned into a major institution for promoting the study of all the non-physical sciences . |
| 22 | If he had been associated with a major electric manufacturer it could have been different , but his character was too individualistic . |
| 23 | Quality circles have been seen as a major achievement of the Japanese system , and not only because they serve as a substitute for quality surveillance as a separate management function . |
| 24 | These increases have been matched by a major decrease in the proportion living with others , from 60 per cent to 22 per cent . |
| 25 | In addition , savings worth 19.6 million have been identified without a major effect on services . |
| 26 | And it is really in the last decade that credit cards have been sold as a major source of credit ; and that American banks have tried to sell people loans here . |
| 27 | The methodologies used by the SPRU workers have been described in a major review article by Martin & Irvine ( 1983 ) . |
| 28 | Developments in police-control techniques have been accompanied by a major extension of police powers which encourage their intervention , not only on marches , at demonstrations and mass pickets , but in the everyday affairs of the community . |