Example sentences of "a major [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another major event which has affected the British economy is the decline of the British Empire and Commonwealth , linked as it was in a major way to the two world wars of this century . |
| 2 | At the broadest level , the Course contributes in a major way to the achievement of the Polytechnic 's overall aims . |
| 3 | It would be a major disincentive to property improvement . |
| 4 | In the summer of 1935 , George Pateman resigned following his appointment as Assistant Secretary to the Cambridge University Board of Extra-Mural Studies — a major surprise to many in the District and which precipitated a major re-casting of the District 's policies and priorities . |
| 5 | It 's come as a major surprise to his friends at the training club . |
| 6 | we argued there that erm scale of migration was not necessary to be contained within Leeds and Bradford , to promote regeneration because we 're s we 're now , we have now exhausted all our brown field sites to the extent that we 've had to take land out of our greenbelt , but there we were looking at something in the order of four thousand dwellings in three dris districts , spread over fifteen years , and we might reasonably assume that they 'd come forward in a dispersed manner on a site by site basis er and be relatively small scale , certainly we would be looking at the local plans which flow from this alteration to make sure that will be the case , now a new settlement 's a completely different animal , you would have to come forward quickly otherwise it would not be regarded as a success , it would it would need wide publicity , perhaps across the whole region , maybe even beyond , it would be a a major attraction to anybody thinking of moving house er from Leeds to a a location which would be accessible to them to retain their employment in Leeds , so I think we were talking about two different things entirely , more than that Mr Brighton 's su suggested that fifteen hundred would not be an adequate scale , it would have to be , I think two thousand five hundred was his figure , er Mr Timothy 's suggested th the same sort of thinking , and Mr Brook to , that the the settlement would have to get bigger , erm which only compounds our problem , any any settlement which grew larger and larger and inevitably would contain more employment as well as housing would become more of a threat to the regeneration of Leeds and , perhaps to a lesser extent Bradford , and it 's on |
| 7 | Barrie Lamb , chairman of the Preservation Society , said the town had lost out on a major attraction to the North-East . |
| 8 | Barrie Lamb , chairman of Darlington Railway Preservation Society , said it meant Darlington had lost out on a major attraction to the North-East . |
| 9 | Deforestation in the Philippines , especially that for agricultural development , is likely to be a major handicap to its economic development unless appropriate land-use strategies are implemented . |
| 10 | Blindness is also a major handicap to the recognition of a potential mate , as is deviant colouration . |
| 11 | Reading section 4 of the Act with the other relevant interpretative sections , it is hardly surprising that a number of people connected with the children 's hearing system saw the Act as a major handicap to their work . |
| 12 | Accordingly , perception of a gap between social and private returns was not a major handicap to investment . |
| 13 | As with pigs , the high cost of bought-in food is a major deterrent to success . |
| 14 | The complexity of drawing together accurate personnel data in a dispersed organisation — some elements of which have autonomous powers — is a major deterrent to basing decisions on facts . |
| 15 | Lilford ( 1989 ) sees the ability of the home authority to choose who receives treatment as a major benefit to be gained from the system , stating that ‘ some patients will still go without treatment , but commissioning agents will help patients with the greatest need or best prognosis . |
| 16 | The Service Consultancy initiative is a major benefit to clients in this area and I have already received many letters from customers , advised by the circular in their invoicing , thanking us for this additional feature . |
| 17 | Furthermore the research will provide an informed statement about the origins , composition and behavioural characteristics of migrant households which will be a major benefit to policy makers concerned with the provision of rural housing and local services . |
| 18 | Methven was later to create an embarrassing scandal among the godly , when he was publicly deposed for adultery in 1562 — a sin which did not prevent him finding a niche among the ministry of the Church of England — but in 1558 he was a major asset to the Protestants , preaching not only in Dundee but , during the summer months , in other parts of Angus and in Fife . |
| 19 | The sale to the public of 50 per cent of British Telecom ( BT ) in December 1984 was , at the time , the largest privatisation issue and it provided a major spur to the whole programme . |
| 20 | This was seen as being a major spur to improving efficiency for the generating companies . |
| 21 | Pressures from the consumer market to go for cheaper and more efficient plant ( which earlier , when there had been competition from generation by private industry , was a major spur to efficiency for CEB planners and the undertakings ) was now less effective . |
| 22 | ( As the project has developed , the Coordinating Team has had more confidence in " delaying " a Major award to a school by a year to give it time for further consolidation . ) |
| 23 | Given the increasing chip density necessary for more complex CISC designs , resulting in increasing chip faults and greater cost RISC will be a major challenger to the CISC in the future . |
| 24 | The war years integrated the Japanese economy far more closely into the international economy , and made Japan a major competitor to the capitalist economies of the West . |
| 25 | A major stumbling-block to consensus is the fact that ‘ curriculum ’ is an educational term , deployed by educationists . |
| 26 | The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation , a major lender to Bond but one which cut its exposure to about A$1billion earlier this year , said it would study the implications of the NAB action over the weekend . |
| 27 | David Sylvester , the author of the monograph , is also the editor of the catalogue raisonné , which has been financed by the Menil Foundation , the largest repository of Magritte 's art and a major lender to the Hayward Gallery 's exhibition . |
| 28 | That was why he promoted the idea of the Grand Slam Trust Fund , an opportunity for the four Grand Slam tournaments , as the pinnacles of the game , to make a major contribution to the grass roots on a global basis , over and above the enormous funding they provide for tennis in their own countries . |
| 29 | These reforms made a major contribution to the stability of independent Tanzania 's administration . |
| 30 | Firstly it is clear that whatever contingencies entered into the writing of the Treatise , Keynes himself intended it as a major contribution to economic theory , free-standing and internally valid in all circumstances . |