Example sentences of "has [verb] the major " in BNC.
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| 1 | Döldissen has listed the major characteristics of the six research areas ( Figure 6.1 ) . |
| 2 | King Hussein ibn Talal , of the Hashemite dynasty , has played the major role in Jordanian politics since he succeeded his father as King in 1952 . |
| 3 | The latter has become the major occupation for women , for about one quarter of Latin America 's female workforce are maids — 25.5% of the female labour force in Bogotá in 1985 were domestic servants ( López & Pollack 1989 ) and 32 per cent of the total Brazilian female workforce are live-in maids ( Filet-Abreu Souza 1980 ) . |
| 4 | Since the widespread use of insulin therapy during the 1920s , macrovascular disease has become the major cause of morbidity and mortality in the diabetic subject in both the UK and USA ( Entmacher et al , 1964 ; Marble , 1976 ; Tunbridge , 1981 ) . |
| 5 | The spread of HIV infection has become the major public health issue of the century . |
| 6 | In the old world continual distraction has become the major weapon of control — bread and circuses — or the modern equivalent : football , royalty , and fashion . |
| 7 | The international rock star Bruce Springsteen has spurned the major venues in London to play a concert here in the Central region . |
| 8 | Revisionist research has underlined the major scale of those mutinies , and the abruptness with which soldiers refused to implement orders to crush disturbances and began instead to press their own grievances . |
| 9 | It rapidly became a staple , and has remained the major crop throughout the modern period . |
| 10 | This is partly because of the great competition brought about by the flood of new records over the past two years which has prompted the major record companies to reissue at mid-price ( and sometimes in the bargain range ) many of the first generation of digital records made in the early 1980s . |
| 11 | A section of opinion believes that the emphasis on the Green Belt has obscured the major threat to the traditional British countryside which lies in the inappropriate development of small country towns . |
| 12 | ‘ The controversy surrounding the employment arrangements of John Birt has obscured the major issue in British broadcasting — the future of the BBC beyond 1996 when its current charter expires , ’ says the letter . |
| 13 | In the letter to the Times , the board members say : ‘ The controversy surrounding the employment arrangements of John Birt has obscured the major issue in British broadcasting — the future of the BBC beyond 1996 when its current Charter expires . |