Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] as a major " in BNC.
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| 1 | Football hooliganism has been defined as a major social problem . |
| 2 | The privatization programme has been recognized as a major break with the mixed economy consensus . |
| 3 | Mr Clinton 's landslide victory has been hailed as a major step forward by the country 's two biggest nursing organisations . |
| 4 | The inclusion in the new paintings galleries of eight rooms without skylights exclusively for drawings and pastels has been hailed as a major innovation . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ] . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |