Example sentences of "that [art] major [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , one may reasonably presume that the major changes in the marine faunas at this time followed from the regressions caused by the Hercynian orogeny . |
| 2 | Examples are the splitting up of AT&T in the US , referred to above , the more stringent conditions put on the BA/BCal merger by the EC authorities , and the MMC recommendation that the major UK brewers should divest themselves of most of their public houses ( Supply of Beer , 1989 ) . |
| 3 | Essentially , the Inquiry found that the major institutions in the public sector ( many of which were larger than some universities ) should be exercising much more responsibility for the standard of their work , and be accountable for that task . |
| 4 | It may be that the major mischief at which the Act was directed was the mischief which has become endemic of persons using one computer to hack into another computer . |
| 5 | He also recognised that the major problem which faces any large multi- operational enterprise is the appropriate degree of centralisation or decentralisation of decision-making authority . |
| 6 | Zander indicated that the major problem with such a scheme is the initial funding , particularly if the fund were to be established on a voluntary basis . |
| 7 | I would say , incidentally , without elaborating , that this is potentially beneficial to the health of the cows , because we do know that the major problems of ill health in cows are the production diseases associated with very high yields . |
| 8 | I assumed that the major problems would be financial — the Centre now has to make a considerable charge to cover their costs — and one of occupancy . |
| 9 | In his statement , chairman John Slater says that the major problems relating to the group 's past have now been dealt with , but that the directors are not yet in a position to recommend the payment of a dividend . |
| 10 | But three of the poems which follow were published in 1807 — Alice Fell , Stepping Westward and Elegiac Stanzas — and when we consider that the major part of The Prelude dates from this time there seems no reason to challenge the usual critical dictum that this was Wordsworth 's major creative period . |
| 11 | Appellate counsel 's point was that P was anxious to make it clear that the major part of the blame for the offences fell on others , and he might not have appreciated that the statement could be used against him ; it was thus unfair . |
| 12 | When surveying the focus of attention of physical geographers it is evident that the major part of the earth 's surface , the oceans , has been ignored in physical geography research . |
| 13 | Although Adsersen ( 1989 ) believes that the major threat to conservation is not from tourism but from land-use via agriculture and sand and gravel extraction , there is still much cause for concern , especially if hotels and tourist resorts are developed . |
| 14 | It was during the first four decades of the twentieth century that the major contours of psychoanalytic theory were first developed by Freud . |
| 15 | The argument is thus that the major purpose behind project work from a teacher 's point of view should be skill development rather than knowledge acquisition . |
| 16 | It quickly became apparent that the major purpose which the questionnaire was to serve was as an agenda for the formal meetings between the Head of the Art Department and two of the members of the Senior Management Team ( Deputy Head ( Curriculum ) and the Director of Studies ) . |
| 17 | This equation states that the major influence on demand in the th market is the expected real quantity of money holdings of consumers in the th market ; that is , their actual nominal holdings deflated by their expectation of the aggregate price level . |
| 18 | The government 's position is that the major decisions on countering global warming will have to wait on international agreement at the 1992 UN conference on the environment , which would project them beyond the present government . |
| 19 | Third , evidence from molecular biology indicates that the major lineages of Metazoa were distinct at least 700Myr ago ( suggestive of even earlier origins ) , but this too is disputed . |
| 20 | Has the Prime Minister noticed that the major issue in the Kincardine and Deeside by-election is the widespread public opposition to the application by Foresterhill hospital in Aberdeen to become a self-governing trust ? |
| 21 | ‘ We fear that the major call-up … could , instead of helping to prevent violence , lead to serious intimidation of local communities and even more violence , ’ the ANC said . |
| 22 | One of these promising directions has been the realisation that conservation is as much about social processes as physical ones , and that the major constraints are not technical ( in the agricultural engineering sense ) , but social . |
| 23 | The US secretary of state , Warren Christopher , said in Geneva that the major powers had agreed on negotiations , but it seemed that Mr Christopher did not have a cast-iron Palestinian commitment on new talks . |
| 24 | This suggests that the major transfer of care from state hospitals has taken place without any specific political driving force . |
| 25 | Experiments tend to show that the major contribution comes from the χ s component , indicating that there is a large decrease in entropy ( non-combinatorial ) which is acting against the dissolution process of a polymer in a solvent . |
| 26 | Note that the major peak is at 250μV whereas the smaller peak is at about twice this amplitude . |
| 27 | They should be reminded that the major investors coming into Ogwr borough , and Bridgend in particular , were Ford of Bridgend , which was brought in under Jim Callaghan 's Labour Government , and the Japanese company , Sony , which was also brought in by a Labour Government . |
| 28 | We noted above that the major legislation affecting insurance companies is contained in the Insurance Companies Act 1982 . |
| 29 | A number of sources of research reviewed here suggest that the major differences between good and poor readers of all ages are in word-decoding processes , and that the surest way of improving an individual 's reading ability is to improve their sight vocabulary . |
| 30 | Comparison of the results of this study with those from our previous study shows that the major differences in anorectal function between patients with complete supraconal lesions and those with incomplete lesions are that the almost complete loss of rectal sensitivity and the ability to contract the sphincter at will . |