Example sentences of "[been] [art] major [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | France had been the major supporter of Euratom ; as the only one of the Six already possessing a nuclear programme , it obviously hoped to benefit most from the joint funding of the Community and to establish a domination of the nascent industry . |
| 2 | Lending to small business owners has become an important profit centre for banks and the importance of establishing an efficient means of raising finance is also vital to the economy , because ‘ recent evidence shows that small firms have been the major creator of new jobs in the 1980s ’ . |
| 3 | Their absence has been the major talking point as Wednesday plot how they will overturn that two-goal deficit , but Francis has had enough . |
| 4 | Another larger issue could well have been the major redirection of Bernician military might and political power needed to secure an advance north of the Forth . |
| 5 | Carpet manufacture and related activities had been the major provider of employment in the area up until the late 1960s . |
| 6 | The parliamentary road to socialism has been the major tradition within Britain where the Labour Party has long been the dominant organisational force on the Left and amongst the working class . |
| 7 | Curiously enough , though , this has not been the major concern of feminist work in the social science disciplines of linguistics and speech communication . |
| 8 | However , the determination of the drug barons to avoid extradition to the United States on drug charges was generally considered to have been the major factor behind the offer to surrender . |
| 9 | The SLORC regime had been eager to attract foreign investment ; this was thought to have been the major factor in its decision to proceed with the election . |
| 10 | Concern about nephrotoxicity has been the major factor limiting more widespread investigational use of cyclosporin in ulcerative colitis . |
| 11 | There 's no doubt it has been the major factor in walkers having accidents . ’ |
| 12 | I mean , ranking of the countries descending as business in the way it changes , and Japan comes first , Germany 's gone down in recent years because of that trouble , but America has consistently been the major investor in this country . |
| 13 | Kent also seems to have been the major importer of garnet , although the actual amount that survives has not been quantified . |
| 14 | Now I know it was likely the alcohol was causing his depression and may well have been the major influence on the poor family relationships involved . |
| 15 | Particularly impressive has been the major revival of the South East since the mid 1970s , but there has also been a return to strong growth in the other three regions of the South in the mid 1980s . |
| 16 | During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the pace of Mediterranean commercial life slackened and the inland sea , which had once been the major artery of European trade , became a cul-de-sac . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , for the Andes as a whole , compressive stresses arising from plate convergence have not been the major cause of uplift . |
| 18 | The breakdown of traditional national markets , in terms of taste and fashion , coupled with the need to cope with a Europe without internal frontiers in 1992 have been the major stimuli towards growing internationalisation . |
| 19 | Arms control and related issues were high on the agenda and significant agreement was reached on the status of air-launched and sea-launched cruise missiles , which had been the major stumbling blocks in the way of a new strategic arms limitation treaty ( START ) . |
| 20 | The seniority-based nature of the wages system in Japan , the nenko system , has been the major focus of much discussion of the relation between rewards and performance in Japan ( see Sano , 1977 ) . |
| 21 | Green belts have been the major instrument of planning in fringe areas , having long been advocated by leading planning theorists such as Unwin and Howard . |
| 22 | But I have to say that they 've been the major percent of them er we think if only they would knuckle down to it they would do it . |
| 23 | Indeed , it had been the major objection to Lamarck 's theory and to Vestiges that man was treated as an animal ; and that if such a view gained currency , people would start to behave like animals . |
| 24 | She had seen him at 5pm and there had been no major problems . |
| 25 | There had been no major showdown for 20 years . |
| 26 | On the other hand there is much reason to suppose that , had there been no major threat to the Eurasian balance of power , trade and other economic differences would have been the most prominent issue , particularly if those in the United States who favoured multilateral and freer trade had gained sufficient backing for their policies at home . |
| 27 | But dBase is no slouch , and there have been no major bug reports , or complaints about existing files failing to run , so maybe the chosen mix is good enough . |
| 28 | The Institution of Civil Engineers said in evidence to the Lords : ‘ The fact that there has been no major disaster in the United Kingdom for more than 50 years should not be allowed to obscure the ever-increasing danger in the future . |
| 29 | There had been no major engagements in the field and the sieges that the king had undertaken had been abandoned . |
| 30 | Does the hon. Gentleman accept that in my constituency there has been no major industry since 1979 , except for last year when two British companies sold their businesses to the Taiwanese ? |