Example sentences of "[pron] [be] a major " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am a major shareholder , if you remember . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm a major media celebrity , ’ he claimed , ‘ star of stage , screen and satellite , citizen of the solar system , Monty Marsh Marigold is my name , Distringency Number Romeo Rhubarb Rhapsody three-beta-three-one-double-one-one , that 's Rhubarb Romeo Ringmaster one-three-beta-one-one-triple-k . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm a major shareholder in a number of companies and consequently a director of them . |
| 4 | ‘ Anyway , I 've obviously got to be here if you 're going to be leading the good life , since I 'm a major component of it . ’ |
| 5 | We are assuming that the knowledge concepts and skills , also the development of attitudes and personal qualities , will be delivered through the foundation subjects , options , extra-curricular activities , tutorial and careers guidance programme , and our extensive individual staff-student consultations which are a major feature of the school 's work , and perhaps more than anything else manifest our central concern for the academic and personal needs of each student . |
| 6 | There is no equivalent exhaustive review of family practitioner services , which are a major focus of the recent White Paper and the subject of an additional White Paper on primary health care ( DH , 1989b ) . |
| 7 | It also suggests that they create radical discontinuities between the educational and occupational systems which are a major limitation upon the effectiveness of educational reforms . |
| 8 | This ‘ inverted causation ’ as it has been called , which is a major element of Marxist theory , is to be found in the theory of Asiatic production , in that the subjects of the Asiatic despot are made to believe that they can live because of the blessing of the god-king , the true guardian and shepherd of the community , while really it is he who is living off them . |
| 9 | Clement of Alexandria 's principal achievement was his trilogy : ( 1 ) an Exhortation to conversion ( Protreptikos ) , in the style of ancient homilies commending the study of philosophy to men of affairs inclined to think it a waste of time ; ( 2 ) the Paidagogos or Tutor , providing a guide to ethics and etiquette , which is a major source for social history of the age ; ( 3 ) Stromateis , or Miscellanies , a deliberately rambling work , constantly changing the subject , but from which the discerning reader can reconstruct a remarkable , carefully thought out system . |
| 10 | They eat more in the Irish Republic ( 23.7kg per capita ) , which is a major beef-exporting country producing 570,000 tonnes per annum but only consuming about 84,000 tonnes at home . |
| 11 | In the last 200 years the irrigation system has been extended to increase the number of crops grown annually and especially to increase the cultivation of cotton which is a major export crop . |
| 12 | It also means that you 've spent a productive few hours studying , which is a major contribution to your weekly workload . |
| 13 | As a result in this country we have had a heavy tax burden and a structure of taxation which is a major disincentive to take risk , to invest and even to work . |
| 14 | The insurance giant , which is a major employer in Ipswich , said success was achieved by a strong improvement in UK business in the past year . |
| 15 | it 's very beautiful in the glen , like something out of a fairy tale , and there 's a picturesque waterfall which is a major tourist attraction . |
| 16 | However such hybrid techniques mean the searching algorithm is not quite so straightforward , which is a major disadvantage for this type of application . |
| 17 | Boston test equipment specialist Teradyne Inc has established a subsidiary in Jerusalem , Israel as a joint venture with A M Engineering Ltd , which is a major shareholder in AMT Data Processing Systems Ltd , a quoted company that distributes Sun Microsystems Inc gear in Israel : called Teradam Ltd , the new subsidiary will develop support software for Teradyne Inc 's product line — a series of tools for quality assurance and testing of printed circuit boards , the field in which Teradyne is a leader with annual sales currently running at $530m . |
| 18 | State bureaucracies can not remain completely subordinate to political control , as the democratic elitist model requires , without some sacrifice of expertise and specialized division of labour , which is a major rationale for instituting bureaucratic organization . |
| 19 | Out of the conceptualization of housework as work which is a major theme of this study arises the need to spell out the different components in what is broadly termed women 's ‘ domesticity ’ . |
| 20 | Now , in 1980 , having largely escaped the first round of cuts by the Tory government , the Housing Corporation , which is a major source of funding to housing associations and co-ops , has been cut too , leading to an ever worsening situation for those ineligible for council housing or unable to buy into the private market . |
| 21 | The trade in live exports will begin again which is a major retrograde step . |
| 22 | It is an open economy in the technical sense that the ratios of both imports and exports to Gross Domestic product ( GDP ) have historically been high compared to other advanced industrial countries and in the broader sense that UK firms ' investments overseas are high , foreign firms ' ownership of UK enterprises is high , and the financial sector , the City , which is a major sector of the economy and dominates it in several ways , is essentially international in outlook . |
| 23 | But , having given permission and encouraged the port authority and dock company to move in and operate a port , which is a major long term undertaking , it is hardly reasonable to seek to stop or materially limit it without compensation and when the dock company is doing no more than making a success of that for which permission was granted . |
| 24 | For all the centralisation of power , which is a major feature of government in these countries , sub-central organs of government … have remained power structures in their own right , and therefore able to affect very markedly the lives of the populations they have governed . |
| 25 | Education , which is a major item of social service expenditure , is clearly a necessary investment if the nation is to have the trained people who are as necessary to production as raw materials . |
| 26 | Brazil has a heavy burden of international debt , which is a major contributor to its economic and health problems , but wealth is also characterised by striking internal divisions . |
| 27 | These findings support the view that it is not the boundary of clauses per se but the boundary of units of information which is a major determinant of the units involved in language comprehension . |
| 28 | ‘ But the thrust of our approach is to start at home , focusing on one thing at a time rather than confusing ourselves by trying to do everything at once — which is a major reason why 85 per cent of organisations trying to do something in this area fail to get it right . |
| 29 | Wh which is a major thing . |
| 30 | That is a testament to Nuclear Electric 's management in respect of that project , which is a major achievement by British industry . |