Example sentences of "[verb] [be] a major " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has been a major demand by the National Licensed Victuallers Association , who hailed the decision as a victory for their campaign . |
| 2 | It has been a major political and cultural force for a hundred years . |
| 3 | And , least definably , there is the cultural nationalism , the concept of ‘ Englishness ’ that , from the beginning , has been a major element in the subject . |
| 4 | Roger Henderson , QC , the Bar 's public affairs spokesman , warned that the words used in the White Paper were open to different interpretations , but said : ‘ Lord Donaldson has plainly interpreted the White Paper on the basis that there has been a major change from the Green Paper . ’ |
| 5 | The Washington attorney was a close friend and adviser to Guinness 's former chairman , Ernest Saunders , and has been a major target of the SFO 's investigation of the corporate scandal . |
| 6 | Produced in many parts of the Mediterranean , the oil has been a major trading commodity throughout history , just as it is today . |
| 7 | The application of computer technology in the excavation process itself has been a major area of growth over the last decade . |
| 8 | A : Unfortunately there has been a major problem with overbooking among Cypriot hoteliers . |
| 9 | This Directive has been a major source of conflict between the UK and the European Commission . |
| 10 | This has been a major platform of government economic policy . |
| 11 | This has been a major problem in Kent , Essex , Suffolk , and Norfolk , and most notoriously at Halvergate , where there have also been acidity problems , causing some farmers to have to jet their drains every year . |
| 12 | Just as Japan , a country dependent for 60% of its energy on oil , was a major sufferer when prices doubled in the second oil shock of 1979 , so it has been a major beneficiary of the subsequent fall in crude prices . |
| 13 | In fact , although over the past forty years there has been a major transformation of the Yugoslav economy , inter-regional differences are at least as great as they were before , and in some cases even greater . |
| 14 | The wettest town in Britain has been a major centre of the Welsh slate industry since the eighteenth century , and the hills all round it are scarred by quarries and deformed by spoil heaps . |
| 15 | His methods are still used today and it can reasonably be claimed that the influence of the eighteenth-century cattle breeders has been a major one worldwide . |
| 16 | For several years there has been a major breed improvement and production scheme in France to increase its genetic merit and select the best breeding stock from a nucleus of 45,000 recorded cows . |
| 17 | For those who are capable of learning how to modify diet and insulin dose to suit prevailing circumstances and want to do so , the ability to determine their own blood glucose has been a major step forward , permitting more satisfactory glycaemic control and a more adventurous approach to many activities ( Skyler et al , 1978 ; Sonksen et al , 1978 ; Walford et al , 1978 ) . |
| 18 | The distribution of the special ZIMSCI materials has been a major headache . |
| 19 | While the education system has been a major target for opponents of apartheid since the 1953 Bantu Education Act , it was not until the 1980s that more concrete attempts were made to formulate ideas for another kind of education system . |
| 20 | In particular , there has been a major and disproportionate increase in shoplifting ( 3 per cent of theft in 1945 , compared with 14 per cent in 1978 ) and in thefts from , and of , motor vehicles . |
| 21 | whilst there remain widely varying explanations of the reasons for the disturbances of 1981 , 1983 and 1985 , there can be no doubt that the fear of social disorder , and its association with the needs and demands of black people , has been a major factor in sustaining central government interest in inner cities policy . |
| 22 | This is not just of interest to professional politicians or academic specialists ; local government has become front-page news , its leading politicians such as Ken Livingstone , David Blunkett and Derek Hatton have been catapulted to national fame and the local-central government conflict detailed in Chapter 4 has been a major issue in three successive general elections . |
| 23 | Indeed the ability to produce a range of returns on value for money indices has been a major factor in securing continued treasury funding . |
| 24 | The repeated use of this road to power has been a major factor in perpetuating primitive beliefs in ‘ gods ’ and superstitions within the human race . |
| 25 | From time to time Earth suffers bombardment from meteors and comets , and meteoritic impact has been a major planet-shaper and climate-modeller . |
| 26 | It is now clear to Earth scientists that the extent of ocean water and its depth and shallowness , and the way it periodically invades the land and then retreats , has been a major climatic determinant . |
| 27 | This fact , quite unknown when Hahnemann first discovered the effects of potentization , has been a major stumbling block to the acceptance of homoeopathy by orthodox doctors . |
| 28 | Ironically , it 's the simplicity that has been a major headache for distributors Oak Marketing . |
| 29 | There has been a major increase over the last year in the number of disqualification proceedings taken out against directors , according to the Insolvency Service . |
| 30 | Furthermore , ERM membership has effectively disciplined many EC governments unable to cure inflation for themselves ; this has been a major factor in the creation of prosperity in Western Europe . |