Example sentences of "[noun] that [art] major [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As these factors are examined it is important to bear in mind that a major advantage to the builder is that the financial risks of employing labour direct are transferred to the sub-contractor . |
| 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 | This project originated from a recognition that a major concern in early childhood education in Britain at present is the role of parents . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | It was in negotiations concerning these core and grey areas that the major use of computers was made . |
| 6 | There is always a danger with such large amounts of disclosure that the major points can be missed by the acquirer and its advisers . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | TVS shares shot ahead by 4½p to 26p on the news and there is speculation that a major battle could be in the wings . |
| 10 | Can a cleaner on the shopfloor really be expected to know and understand the complex set of aims that a major corporation sets itself ? |
| 11 | ‘ This is further evidence that the major hospital on one side of the river is being denuded of major medical facilities . |
| 12 | The authors of the Black Report , who included one of the most eminent Fabian academics , Professor Peter Townsend , were clear that such disparities were socially unjust and the NHS needed policies to address them , but they were forced to conclude from the evidence that the major causes of health inequalities lay beyond the NHS and were rooted in the material conditions of life experienced by the different classes . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Retail sales around the country were reported to have plummeted amid forecasts that a major recession was inevitable . |
| 15 | There may indeed be something in the Professore 's argument that the major fault of Marxism was to over-estimate man 's capacity for altruism , for purity , for in tellectual-philosophic sustenance . |
| 16 | Many rural authorities followed the example of Cambridgeshire village colleges inspired by Henry Morris , the chief education officer , so that Devon , Somerset and Leicestershire all wrote the notion into their development plans and did actually build some , which would support the argument that the major move towards equality that was achieved by the 1944 Education Act was the diminution of the gap between rural and urban children — this was not Butler 's two nations becoming one but it was a step towards it . |
| 17 | It is hard to escape the implication that a major source of this taboo is the sense that the priest kneeling down and washing women 's ‘ naked ’ feet would be somehow both sexual and polluting to the sacred . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Despite criticisms voiced by the Post Office Engineering Union ( 1980 ) it is still the case that warrants are to be issued under the hand of the Home Secretary rather than a judge , there apparently being no concern that a major invasion of privacy can take place by executive act without the need for any judicial approval or authorization , as is required in other democracies . |
| 20 | It is for this reason that a major part of ISS is devoted to improving the staff-development of teachers , and in the period of implementation of ISS efforts have been directed to improving the Authority 's INSET and school self-evaluation procedures . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | There are indications that a major reappraisal of curriculum content and access is already under way and seems to be well supported by teachers . |
| 23 | Most of this appears to have taken place in Paris although there are some indications that a major London firm of stockbrokers was also involved . |
| 24 | It was during the first four decades of the twentieth century that the major contours of psychoanalytic theory were first developed by Freud . |
| 25 | I have no doubt that a major influence in forcing him to make what must have been for him a most distasteful and humiliating manoeuvre , was a letter sent by a number of Durham county councillors to a local newspaper in reply to an article penned by Mr Fallon in the previous week 's issue . |
| 26 | I have little doubt that a major force in the moulding of the law in this form is to be found in the practitioners ' text books of the time , notably Bullen & Leake 's Precedents of Pleadings , 3rd ed. ( 1868 ) , p. 50 , and Leake 's Law of Contracts , 5th ed. ( 1906 ) , p. 61 ; we can see this reflected in the form of the arguments advanced in the cases , and the manner in which the court reacted to submissions by counsel challenging the accepted view . |
| 27 | This may sound ominous and rather exaggerated but there is no doubt that a major alteration in your personal life as well as your career is imminent and unavoidable . |
| 28 | On the following day , a sprinkling of ash fell over a wide area , and a great column of steam was seen rising above Krakatoa , leaving no doubt that a major eruption was under way . |
| 29 | He had no doubt that a major reason was drink or , sometimes , gambling . |
| 30 | Many sciences moreover share the characteristic that a major discovery means that all other models and theories are simply out of date and have to be discarded . |