Example sentences of "[noun] had a major [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That assurance , derived from the conviction that the WEA had a major role to play in society and that the Eastern District was successful in fulfilling it , was apparent in the paper , ‘ A Consideration of Aims and Purposes ’ , written by former treasurer Edward Miller in 1956 . |
| 2 | During his term of office as provost Councillor Thomson had a major role in attracting the Exacta Electronics firm to the town . |
| 3 | Another Director-General whose vision of broadcasting had a major influence in a period of important change in social attitudes was Hugh Greene , who oversaw a more liberal interpretation of ‘ public service ’ in the 1960s . |
| 4 | For example , in the 1890s new office machines such as typewriters and calculating machines had a major impact on the day-to-day operations of businesses . |
| 5 | The most mouthwatering specimens tend to be found in limestones — famous sites are in the Silurian rocks of England and Mississipian rocks of the U.S.A. The group as a whole had a major crisis in the Permian , during which most of the Palaeozoic forms died out . |
| 6 | During the period of dominance he identifies three distinct ways through which psychodynamic theories had a major influence on social work . |
| 7 | Chris Allen , of the Forum Housing Association , told the BCC that for the size of the local authority area , Wirral had a major problem of homelessness . |
| 8 | This led to serious confrontations in steel , coal and the railways , on which the government had a major influence . |
| 9 | Hence the government had a major role to play not simply through the provision of business training but by means of supplying financial incentives through the taxation system . |
| 10 | Hickson and Jacques severed direct contact with each other ; Shearman and Pateman had a major disagreement over a question of loyalty to the WEA , and the two new university resident tutors were not informed of the proposed developments nor invited to comment on the proposals which might affect Essex and Norfolk . |
| 11 | The attack in the south was focused in the main on Dezful , where Iran had a major air base , and on Ahwaz , the principal town of Iran 's southwestern province of Khuzestan and site of the field headquarters of the country 's inland oil-production operations , with an important oilfield on the spot and the junction of the crude oil pipeline system leading northwards to domestic refining centres . |
| 12 | In the competition with other unionist groupings , the DUP had a major advantage in its cohesion . |
| 13 | In the past the harvesting of seabirds for food and the predation by animals introduced by humans had a major impact on seabird colonies . |
| 14 | He sat down , knowing in his heart of hearts that for as long as Randy Mueller had a major part to play in UM 's corporate planning , his basic criteria would be : ‘ Is it good for the Corporation ? |
| 15 | It also pointed out that all these proposals had a major weakness in that none of them gave consideration to the university sector , which because of its involvement in the provision and validation of teacher-training courses and because of the different , smaller scale of Welsh provision , made its contribution more critical . |
| 16 | Catering for more than 100,000 students a year , the Millars had a major influence on the dissemination of socialist ideas . |
| 17 | Catering for more than 100,000 students a year , the Millars had a major influence on the dissemination of socialist ideas . |
| 18 | Not surprisingly , the bourgeois ideology of domesticity had a major impact on the subordinate elements in the bourgeois coalition itself , those class fractions and groups who aspired to its social standards and standing , the middle and lower bourgeoisie . |
| 19 | Manchester had modest arrangements with Macclesfield and Winsford ; Liverpool had major schemes at Winsford ( again ) and Ellesmere Port ; Wolverhampton built at Wednesfield and Seisdon ; Salford had a major involvement with Worsley ; Newcastle upon Tyne expanded at Killingworth and Cramlington ; Bristol utilized Warmley ; and Walsall also took up the provisions of the Act . |
| 20 | Sociology had a major presence , though of variable quality and intellectual traditions , throughout the university sector before the Second World War . |
| 21 | BET had a major holding in Associated-Rediffusion . |