Example sentences of "have [been] a major " in BNC.
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| 1 | Strategies to deal with this issue have been a major concern to local organisers . |
| 2 | They have been a major force in church planting in south-east London in the 1980s . |
| 3 | Studies of social change in rural communities have been a major theme in rural community work since the early 1950s , when the first typologies ( some of which have already been discussed in Chapter 4 , and notably in Tables 4.6 and 4.7 were developed . |
| 4 | Hence they have only contributed in a limited way to post-war housing , but they have been a major feature of a commitment to planned decentralization , even though , as Aldridge ( 1979 ) concludes , by the end it was a programme without a policy . |
| 5 | John Elsley spoke for many booksellers up and down the country : ‘ Unemployment and the fear of unemployment have been a major adverse factor , during the year and particularly in the period up to Christmas . ’ |
| 6 | Glyn and Sutcliffe ( 1972 ) argued that low profits have been a major factor in low levels of investment in the UK . |
| 7 | The local authorities spend over a quarter of public expenditure and have been a major source of control problems . |
| 8 | The continued energy , good humour and loyalty of the staff through a most difficult time have been a major strength to the Management Board and the Council |
| 9 | Since then JCI 's diamond interests in De Beers Consolidated Mines Limited , and a number of unlisted diamond trading companies , have been a major source of investment income . |
| 10 | Sporting endeavours have been a major feature of the activities undertaken so far ( see Update ) . |
| 11 | Although this analysis is not strictly accurate — there is always a compression/decompression overhead of about 5 per cent — the benefits and potential cost savings are substantial and compression techniques have been a major field of development from the time of the very earliest digital databases . |