Example sentences of "[be] [to-vb] a major " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , if we are to see a major confluence of the world 's financial markets , we need to have prepared our financial structure and planning in good time to take advantage of such changes . |
| 2 | The depth of the recession facing Germany means that the boom must fall soon , and then about the only way for Siemens to save the company will be to make a major acquisition that finally puts it onto the world stage . |
| 3 | The British Defence White Paper of 1958 laid down with surprising confidence the circumstances in which it would unleash nuclear weapons : ‘ It must be well understood that if Russia were to launch a major attack , even with conventional weapons only , the West would have to hit back with strategic nuclear weapons . ’ |
| 4 | More specifically it was in southern California , Reagan 's home territory , that political issues began to surface that were to play a major part in national politics in the years that followed . |
| 5 | Now scientific education and research were to become a major feature of America 's drive to supplant Europe as the centre of western culture . |
| 6 | While Japanese computers were hardly a factor in the boom years , they were to become a major force in the 1980s . |
| 7 | As one of the Northern League 's two unpaid Press officers , he was doubtless pretty pleased also at Monday 's announcement that the council is to provide a major financial leg up for the district 's four NL clubs . |
| 8 | The desperate dad is to launch a major legal battle to get custody of the little girl from his wife , a member of the weird cult , The Family . |
| 9 | Dracula star Monica Bellucci is to front a major publicity push in a move which could leave the supermodels out in the cold . |
| 10 | NORTH WALES is to host a major international research and development conference next week at Mold , organised by the Welsh Development Agency . |
| 11 | In fact , a most significant area for dealing with the problem , if not in some cases accounting for it altogether , is to realise a major part lies not outside ourselves ( in them and their attitudes ) , but with me ( in me and my attitudes — in my inner reactions , habits of mind , prejudices and habitual behaviour given certain threatening circumstances ) . |
| 12 | The ambition is to have a major tournament here by 95 … and the ryder cup soon after that … |
| 13 | The first thing to do is to have a major component of the reading section to include dyslexia , with erm instruction of trainee teachers , not only in how to recognise the problem , but also how to do something about it , and how to use the education system to bring support for parents and pupils . |
| 14 | THE most famous observatory in the world is to get a major relaunch next month . |
| 15 | The HHA is to undertake a major dredging scheme at the port this year and is eager to co-operate with the NRA by allowing it to use the extracted sand , clay , gravel and rock as a barrier to sea erosion on sites like The Naze . |
| 16 | On Nov. 17 the UPP announced that it was to receive a major defector from the DLP on the following day . |
| 17 | It was announced that HCIMA was to lead a major industry initiative to consider a Quality assurance programme designed specifically for the industry . |
| 18 | An important feature of these interactions , which was to play a major part in the new interactionism , was that we use stereotypical ‘ labels ’ to make sense of other people , based on cues or knowledge that we have about them . |
| 19 | Edmund of Lancaster , loyal to the end , was to play a major part in the Anglo-French diplomacy of the 1290s and died represent-ing his brother as lieutenant in Aquitaine at Bayonne on 5 June 1296 . |
| 20 | During the tumultuous years that followed , Nottinghamshire was to play a major role in the bitter conflict . |
| 21 | William Coote , who was to play a major role in social purity up to the 1920s , went through a typical adolescent conversion experience in the 1860s and 1870s . |
| 22 | The Doctor , still mistaken for Pettulian , learns of a conspiracy against Nero in which the murdered lyre player was to play a major part . |
| 23 | In such a policy , the social security system was to play a major role since ‘ the income provided by the scheme to persons who are sick , unemployed , injured or past work will almost invariably be spent to the full . ’ |
| 24 | His theology , nonetheless , was to have a major influence upon atonement thinking , and helped to shape modern thought . |
| 25 | The dispute threatened to spread to Woolwich , Birmingham , Belfast and other centres of the munitions industry ; the legislation of December 1915 was to have a major impact on British housing policy . |
| 26 | This cat-and-mouse game between engineers and the elements was to become a major theme in the next great age of wetland reclamation , which began under the Tudors and reached its climax in the middle of the seventeenth century . |
| 27 | This was to become a major grievance . |