Example sentences of "that [art] major [noun] " in BNC.

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31 Similarly , in Jefferson v Cape Insulation Ltd ( 3 December 1981 ) Farquharson J awarded substantial damages to a woman who knew she must soon die of mesothelioma for her evident distress in being parted from her family : per Farquharson J : I have also to bear in mind … that the major misery this woman is going to sustain is not the pain , serious and terrible as that is , but the prospect which must be continually in her mind of being parted from her family , and particularly her youngest child .
32 This might suggest that the major difficulty with closed class items is that they are harder to access than open class items .
33 I think that the major difficulty has always been that erm oh I hate this .
34 In short , what the figures confirm is that the major achievement of building societies is to take funds from surplus units within the personal sector , to supplement these with lending from other sectors and to lend to personal sector units who wished to go into deficit to buy houses .
35 Bolivian President Jaime Paz Zamora stated that the major achievement of the summit had been the change in US policy and the recognition that drug production and trafficking were not simply criminal activities requiring police and military action , but products of the economic , social and legal problems of the Andean countries .
36 If there is another rights issue , a possible result may be that the major shareholders will decide to take out the minority interest .
37 It is to be expected , therefore , that the major flows of elderly migrants will be either local ( adjusting to changing housing needs ) or from urban to rural areas , perhaps at an interregional scale .
38 General Household Survey data indicate that the major provider of care for the elderly in Britain is the family .
39 I do not think much of the House of Lords anyhow , but it is essential for the proper performance of parliamentary government that the major Bills — this is one — are introduced first in this House .
40 Space domain iterative modelling of the regional gravity and aeromagnetic data in the East Grampians suggests that the major Younger Basic bodies and post-tectonic granites extend to maximum depths of about 4 and 8 kilometres respectively .
41 A further spatial relationship worthy of note is the fact that the major gas fields of the area are associated with areas of anomalous Carboniferous uplift ( Fig. 14 ) .
42 It is unlikely that the major elements in either of these groups will actually change sides , but it may be threatening to the parties if they are lukewarm in their support .
43 A further 15 per cent , all female , stated that the major factor in their experimentation was their male partner 's use .
44 It is supposed that the major factor behind this trend is the financial pressure faced by local authorities , especially as a result of reductions in the amount of central government grant that they receive .
45 Like Marx , Weber argues that the major class division is between those who own the forces of production and those who do not .
46 The temptation to link the change with the disruption to equatorial atmospheric conditions produced by the El Chichon eruption in April is strong , and lends weight to the argument of researchers at the University of East Anglia that the major effect of the volcano on climate occurred soon after the eruption ( see next week 's New Scientist ) .
47 Note that the major effect of the change in the money supply is on the rate of interest .
48 With pie diagrams indicating that the major pop consumers are the staid , over-25s , the development in the ad industry of ‘ psychogeographics ’ ( the science of using pop to home in on specific taste publics — i.e. Springsteen fans are likely to desire different products from Whitney Houston fans ) , and the construction of bands in the studio , pop has never required less urgently a rush of theory from the ‘ left ’ .
49 We noted that the major instrument of central control over local activity was financial : local authorities depend on central government for nearly half their income , with most of the rest coming from rates .
50 It was in negotiations concerning these core and grey areas that the major use of computers was made .
51 The depute procurator-fiscal , Sandra McRobert , told the court that the major police operation began after Say phoned a relative and a neighbour , telling them his wife had left him and that he intended to commit suicide .
52 T n regions are not affected by the antibiotic and that the major cleavage products correspond to the two GC steps .
53 It has become evident since the second oil shock that the major incentive to energy efficiency is a pricing policy where price is directly related to real cost and value , in other words passing on the rising cost of oil and its products to the end consumer .
54 Despite some changes in the family , such as the decline in the size of the nuclear family and its increasing distance from public life , the essential assumption that the major task of women was to serve a husband , bear and rear his children remained .
55 In English it is not necessary to be able to class a vowel as ( +front , +round ) , whereas this is necessary for French and German ; it could be said that the major task for the learner in this case is to learn the combination of these features , not to learn the individual vowels , and ( in French ) .
56 Solar energy is one source , but in section 9.3 you shall see that the major source is of internal origin .
57 Reviewed in the light of these population shifts , the findings in subjects with phenylketonuria suggest that a high proportion of early treated subjects — not just a poorly managed minority — exhibit some degree of intellectual impairment and that the major impact is in early childhood before there is any question of relaxing or stopping treatment .
58 The original quantity theory suggested that the major impact of the money supply is on the general price level , but this crude theory fell into disrepute during the inter-war years with the absence of any well-defined link between money and prices .
59 Now that the major aspects of the InsP 3 -calcium signalling pathway have been mapped out , attention is beginning to focus on its role in specific cellular responses .
60 Oddly enough , the initial cause of varicose veins is not fully understood , but there are some eminent medical researchers , like Dr Denis Burkitt , who believe that the major cause of varicose veins is increased abdominal pressure caused by straining to pass small , firm , Western-style stools .
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