Example sentences of "has a major [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately , the jacket has a major drawback should you want to go climbing in it . |
| 2 | London has a major problem in finding room to dispose of all its rubbish . |
| 3 | ‘ And he has a major problem reaching the food on his table . ’ |
| 4 | So I do n't think in terms of paralinguistics anybody here has a major problem . |
| 5 | ‘ Life on the wild side with David Bowie ’ , which is hardbacked this January and has a major serialisation deal with the Sunday Mirror . |
| 6 | In this book , Leonie Archer looks at the effects of this in the Judaism of antiquity , where blood has a major significance in ritual both in the sacrifices in the Temple and in the shedding of blood in circumcision — the ‘ Covenant ’ between God and his people . |
| 7 | In November 1989 , Guinness Anchor Berhad was formed , as a result of the merger of Guinness and Malayan Breweries Ltd ( in which Heineken has a major shareholding ) . |
| 8 | Digital , the world 's second-biggest computer company , has a major presence in Livingston and a microchip unit at South Queensferry which supplies the Alpha chip for the hard-ware assembled at Ayr and Galway . |
| 9 | He said : ‘ Fortex already has a major presence in the UK through Towers and Co , which is the company 's official importer of chilled and frozen lamb into the UK . |
| 10 | The town has a major shopping centre close to completion , a grand leisure complex in the Dolphin Centre and ambitious plans for the future . |
| 11 | Pearson , which has a major stake in BSkyB , gained 4p to 451p while Granada , another substantial investor , put on a penny to 408p . |
| 12 | Rotterdam has a major rôle in export refining and supply of products . |
| 13 | Rothmans , which has a major manufacturing plant in Darlington , was forced to switch the venue to Spennymoor when Sedgefield District Council stepped in with an offer . |
| 14 | Again , the A nineteen south has a major highway constraint upon it and it 's very difficult to see how that could be overcome . |
| 15 | The company reckons it has a major advantage over its competitors because it does not have to develop a new product for each market — it simply adds a local user interface , which also cuts down on development and maintenance costs . |
| 16 | A public company has a major advantage over a private company in that only public companies are able to offer shares to the public at large , and where possible to be quoted on the Stock Exchange . |
| 17 | In operational day-to-day terms the Bank of England has a major influence on three major markets , the sterling money market , the foreign exchange market , and the gilt-edged market . |
| 18 | In some of these cases the company may be the market leader , that is to say it has the largest single share of the market and because of this has a major influence on market prices and product design . |
| 19 | The international system not only has a major division between communist and capitalist states but also deeper cultural divisions between what are usually termed the First and Third worlds . |
| 20 | Links of this sort are intuitively likely to be stronger when local government has a major construction programme , with orders to distribute , or when large-scale development is on the cards and council co-operation is needed to ensure its success . |
| 21 | First the company has to sell the service to a young market , and it also has a major competitor : Thorn EMI , whose Hospitelli service currently has installations in 30 hospitals . |
| 22 | The company , which has a major share stake in Sky 's rival British Satellite Broadcasting but which rents receiver equipment for Rupert Murdoch 's operation , said around 30,000 dishes a month are being sold or rented . |
| 23 | The company has a major share of the broiler feed market in the SE region thanks to the commitment of the regional poultry team who ensure their customers needs are met as economically as possible . |
| 24 | When it comes down to it , common sense also has a major part to play . |
| 25 | Electricity has a major part to play in making Christmas go with a swing . |
| 26 | INDONESIA Through its interest in the Sanga Sanga PSC. , LASMO has a major position in the growing Pacific rim LNG market . |
| 27 | For the simpler tasks of cataloguing , none the less , the computer has a major contribution to make and is already making it . |
| 28 | I am particularly pleased to see present my hon. Friend the Member for Windsor and Maidenhead ( Sir A. Glyn ) , who obviously has a major interest in this matter . |
| 29 | There is no doubt that the efficient way to plan projects is to take them in order of priority — the marketing function has a major interest in priority setting — and allocate to each in turn the maximum amount of resources it can usefully employ . |
| 30 | The Manchester City striker has scored just once so far this season — so he has a major incentive to score against Arsenal in this televised tussle . |