Example sentences of "[adj] [be] a major " in BNC.
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| 1 | blues parties was that Has that been a major problem in the flats ? |
| 2 | This is a major meditative speech brooding on the loneliness of the man caught between action and passivity — thinking aloud in much the same way as Hamlet does in his many renowned arias on the soul and the theme of revenge . |
| 3 | This is a major reason , in addition to state interventionism , why economic matters precede the issue of Northern Ireland both theoretically and practically in contemporary Irish politics . |
| 4 | ‘ This is a major step forward in British men 's tennis — truly a first , ’ commented the LTA 's Director of National Training , Richard Lewis . |
| 5 | This is a major issue , since not only must the control information be interpreted correctly , but the printer must know when the control characters have finished and it should start interpreting the following characters as text again . |
| 6 | This is a major reason why sexual deviance is found threatening : in deviating from normative truth and the ‘ nature ’ which underpins it , such deviance shifts and confuses the norms of truth and being throughout culture . |
| 7 | This is a major theme in the work of the American anthropologist Lowie and the British anthropologist , Radcliffe-Brown . |
| 8 | This is a major contribution to the ‘ Greenhouse Effect ’ with its catastrophic influence on the earth 's climate . |
| 9 | This is a major work : a dense , multi-layered allegory with its roots firmly in reality . |
| 10 | This is a major and unexpected bereavement to face . |
| 11 | This is a major step forward from the Renault 25 , a car that was good with a V6 but coarse with the smaller four-cylinder engine . |
| 12 | Clearly , this is a major player in this branch of the pharmaceutical business . |
| 13 | This is a major but long overdue reform which will benefit around four million low-paid people , 80 per cent of whom are women . |
| 14 | This is a major boost to the Northern Ireland quarry industry and the Port of Belfast means to play its full part in seeing that this export trade is expanded even further in the years ahead . |
| 15 | This is a major cause of physical handicap , but the insertion of valves which drain off fluid to the heart have reduced the risk of brain damage . |
| 16 | This is a major advance on the pre-existing system of judicial monitoring where the Government agreed only to the publication of the first but not the succeeding reports of the monitor . |
| 17 | The Yugoslav government has always used its control over the banking system to cover expenditures in excess of its revenues , and this is a major cause of the current economic crisis . |
| 18 | Believe me , this is a major step forward , because carp that have been caught on floating baits before know exactly what to look for . |
| 19 | This is a major problem in the Sahel zone where cash cropping has been mooted by Earth Report ( 1988 ) as one of the major causes of environmental degradation , and while the case presented may be oversimplified it is worth reiterating since cash cropping in general is not ( if past performance is taken as a measure ) the answer to Africa 's development problems . |
| 20 | Underemployment is endemic is the agricultural sector where the additional output of each extra worker may be zero ( or even negative ) ; this is a major reason for population drift from rural areas into city slums in many LDCs . |
| 21 | This is a major financial responsibility . |
| 22 | This is a major area which can only be touched on here . |
| 23 | This is a major predator of small mammals in Europe ( Brown , 1976 ) , although today it has a limited distribution . |
| 24 | However , this is a major penetrative feature triggered by a fault ( the Outer Silver Pit Fault ) and has not had the displacive effect of the salt swells located further south and east . |
| 25 | This is a major piece of work which is carried out under the guidance of a project supervisor . |
| 26 | In the office environment this is a major plus . |
| 27 | This is a major system of burrows , all interlinking so that it becomes necessary to work on all aspects of the warren at one time . |
| 28 | This is a major part of the genius of God and of his Word — that it speaks specifically to people where they are and in terms of the culture in which they are immersed . |
| 29 | This is a major sensual tragedy ! |
| 30 | ‘ But this is a major project and it is hoped that most of the 12,000 people it puts in work will be in Britain . ’ |