Example sentences of "[noun prp] [be] a major " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reading it , you need no convincing that Walker is a major writer . |
| 2 | TECHNIQUEST is a major tourist attraction — with over 150,000 visitors during the first 18 months in Cardiff Bay . |
| 3 | No prizes for guessing that Brahms is a major culprit . |
| 4 | They say Koons is a major artist who sacrifices nothing for his work . |
| 5 | While the election of Paisley was a major blow to the credibility of Chichester-Clark , who might have been better advised to save face by not becoming personally involved in opposing Paisley , William Beattie 's victory in South Antrim was probably more damaging in that Beattie was far less well known , was standing in a more cosmopolitan constituency , and was competing against a man who had previously been a cabinet minister . |
| 6 | That Rotherham was a major international conference centre |
| 7 | For three hundred years , until around 1934 , Faversham was a major centre of gunpowder manufacture , and one of the former factories , Chart Mills , was saved from demolition in recent years by the Faversham Society , when the area in which it stands was being cleared for a new housing estate . |
| 8 | At Galerie Tanit until 30 May is a major new work by the Turin artist Michelangelo Pistoletto , who will also appear at Documenta . |
| 9 | The Variscan granite province of South-west England is a major mineralised region and remains an important area for tin exploration . |
| 10 | Consider now the various kinds of argument which can be used in approaching these points of focus in your material and making something new and interesting from them : mode of argument ( a ) : Revalue a reputation ( or assess relative achievement ) ; example An extended essay which argues that Josephine Tey is a major Scottish writer , and that she has been neglected because she wrote detective fiction . |
| 11 | Al-Khorayef is a major licensed manufacturer of water well pumps , pipeline repair services and agricultural products and repair services including the John Deer tractor distributorship . |
| 12 | Today Benson is a major station within number one group of strike command , with duties ranging from servicing the R A F's Andover and Wessex aircraft , to flying Andovers to all military airfields here , in Germany , Cyprus and Belize , to calibrate radars and landing approach aids . |
| 13 | ‘ At the end of the day the money has to be found and there must be an acknowledgement at the higher echelons of British Rail that Chester is a major tourist destination and deserves a station to match . ’ |
| 14 | Two fragments of the chariot were also tested : one , a wheel , was also of Pentelic marble but the axle was of Ephesian marble ( Ephesus was a major port on the west coast of Turkey , north of Halicarnassus ) . |
| 15 | She doubted if Williams were a major player — even on the telephone , he sounded a loser — but at least he might tell her who had put him up to it . |
| 16 | United Kingdom bilateral aid is naturally focused on the Commonwealth in Africa , but Zaire is a major recipient of the African Development bank finance and fund resources . |
| 17 | DAINTYFIT is a major employer in the North West , employing more than 500 people at its Limavady site in the manufacturing of bras for Marks & Spencer . |
| 18 | The fact that business men have volunteered to give up their time and expertise to TECs is a major new breakthrough in the delivery of policies at local level . |
| 19 | In all of these patients , recurrent HBV was a major contributing factor to death , sometimes complicated by other infections or reoperation . |
| 20 | Josiah Wedgwood was a major backer of projects forming links to Staffordshire , not only to cheapen the costs of his intake of clay and flints but also because steadier transit on canals reduced the breakage losses in carrying pottery . |
| 21 | This includes around one hundred works painted between 1780 to 1850 , when Copenhagen was a major European art centre . |
| 22 | Hazelton UK is a major subsidiary of the world 's largest provider of chemical and biological contract research and is a leader in the field of product safety evaluation . |
| 23 | Transfer responsibility for broadcasting to the new Ministry The BBC is a major patron of the arts , and broadcasting itself combines a variety of arts and crafts . |
| 24 | Perkins is a major defence contractor , and builds engines for the Challenger tank at the former Rolls-Royce Diesels plant at Shrewsbury , which it owns . |
| 25 | Lehzen was blamed , probably wrongly , for the queen 's ineptness in the Lady Flora Hastings [ q.v. ] affair , and fear of losing Lehzen was a major contribution to the queen 's stubbornness in the ‘ bedchamber crisis ’ of 1839 . |
| 26 | The EPLF , however , continued to claim that Israel was a major arms supplier , notably of cluster bombs , Kfir aircraft and Soviet-made tanks , and that Israel sought to develop military base facilities . |
| 27 | Glaxo was a major winner in an otherwise depressed sector as its full-year results provided welcome comfort for investors . |
| 28 | The lack of progress in China was a major cause of Japan 's advance into Southeast Asia . |
| 29 | Peter Carrington was a major loss , and although I admired the loyalty of Humphrey Atkins and Richard Luce I thought their resignations unnecessary . |
| 30 | ( a ) Sale of models to A N Other Ltd , in which Mr Johnson is a major shareholder , of £52,000 . |