Example sentences of "is [num] [prep] [art] major [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moisture damage is one of the major problems facing the scientists and is the major cause of interior stonework damage . |
| 2 | The interaction between the various components involved in recognition ( or understanding ) is one of the major problems facing the NLP system designer . |
| 3 | I 'm also an alternative therapist and I do find that this is one of the major problems , that ninety percent of my patients who come to me suffer from stress and depression , and really what has happened in a lot of cases is that they have been put on valium and drugs , they find the side effects are horrific ! |
| 4 | This is one of the major problems of the civilianisation program . |
| 5 | Tradition , along with custom and social institutions , is one of the major components of non-material culture . |
| 6 | Social and geographical differences in mortality are still with us and are still contentious issues ( Chapter 8 ) ; but these very severe differences have gone , and the convergence of mortality is one of the major factors behind the faster improvement of mortality from the end of the nineteenth century . |
| 7 | Cost is one of the major factors for churches in deciding between an electronic and a pipe instrument . |
| 8 | 4 The complexity of IT systems is one of the major factors which causes the occurrence of human errors during the system specification , design , production , operation and maintenance ; 3,6,7 it affects , consequently , quality parameters such as relevance , reliability , modifiability and user friendliness . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's a bad sign but lack of sponsorship is one of the major factors . |
| 10 | Yes I I have er our management in inns erm believe that it is one of the major factors which is helping them to reduce their management turnover . |
| 11 | But however the causes may be conceived , it remains that war itself is one of the major forms of political conflict , and that war has important and far-reaching political consequences . |
| 12 | Whether the weavers of today are aware of the symbolic meaning of their designs — or whether they simply reproduce them out of a general reverence for tradition — is a matter of considerable debate , but there is no doubt that the symbolic potency of nomadic designs is one of the major reasons for their growing popularity in the West . |
| 13 | And it 's plain that this in fact is one of the major reasons explaining why more and more people are actually travelling overseas now . |
| 14 | It enables them to avoid committing themselves and to retreat in front of danger ; and this is one of the major reasons why people speak indirectly . |
| 15 | Like never before ‘ baby talk ’ is one of the major topics of conversation at Douglas Reyburn . |
| 16 | And that I mean is one of the major criticisms against a functional approach , that sometimes you need to know what 's going on inside the box fully to be able to fully appreciate the behaviour anyway . |
| 17 | The RVH is one of the major employers in Northern Ireland and has a workforce in the region of 6,000 people . |
| 18 | Prisoners made it clear that , from their point of view , ready access to such courses is one of the major improvements they would seek . |
| 19 | The absolute discipline of drama training is one of the major things that helps you all the time . |
| 20 | It has a brief dubbed ‘ The Sale of the Century ’ , in which the British Government is one of the major investors . |
| 21 | That is one of the major changes in the MacSharry proposals that we intend to secure . |
| 22 | Business literature is therefore vital for understanding business , which is one of the major forces in modern culture , but it is more limited when it comes to a study of the consumer and his or her relation to the object . |
| 23 | Reckitt is one of the major companies that dominate the market . |
| 24 | It is one of the major themes of Scripture . |
| 25 | We saw above that the real wage is one of the major determinants of the demand for labour . |
| 26 | The object of establishing the Centre is the development of research which can be used to measure and evaluate the functions of social work , which is one of the major areas of local government activity in Scotland . |
| 27 | They are also likely to lead to differences in the way brainstem structures work , since the cerebral cortex of mammals is one of the major sources of input to these areas . |
| 28 | As mentioned earlier in the chapter , the rapid growth of the ethnic minority populations is one of the major features of Britain 's demographic development over the past three decades . |
| 29 | Such strings can easily be found by search programming , and the rapidity of such searching is one of the major justifications for using a computer for storing data . |
| 30 | In pre-industrial economies personal domestic service is one of the major categories of employment . |