Example sentences of "[verb] as [art] major [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Butlin version of the holiday camp prospered in a climate of campaigning for holidays with pay and in a period before packaging had been fully developed as the major way of selling holidays and travel . |
| 2 | The English which is to be formulated as the major instrument for achieving the more general policy goals turns out to consist of systematic inculcation of linguistic practices , firmly aligned to a very specific sense of Englishness . |
| 3 | In the manufacturing sectors of Britain , the USA and Australia , conglomerates predominate as a major locus of internalized planning and communication . |
| 4 | Listening and writing predominate as the major pupil activities , there being little opportunity for pupils to contribute to , or take responsibility for , their own learning , to develop self-confidence , independence and similar personal qualities . |
| 5 | Technology transfer was also recognized as a major issue . |
| 6 | Hepatitis B was formerly referred to as ‘ serum hepatitis ’ because percutaneous exposure to contaminated blood has long been recognized as a major mode of transmission ; and cases of hepatitis B from blood transfusion , needlesticks , and sharing contaminated needles among drug abusers have been well documented . |
| 7 | The privatization programme has been recognized as a major break with the mixed economy consensus . |
| 8 | Constipation is now recognized as the underlying cause of this disease — and fibre-depleted diets are recognized as the major cause of constipation . |
| 9 | Even though odour emission may be regarded as a major consideration , as shown above , only rarely is planning permission refused on that ground alone , generally permission is granted but the development modified in some way to minimise any potential odour nuisance . |
| 10 | The elections were widely regarded as a major setback for the ruling Kuomintang ( KMT ) and for President Lee . |
| 11 | Unfavourable mention in Which ? is regarded as a major problem for well-known manufacturers . |
| 12 | The need by the USA to finance the deficit by — in effect — foreign borrowing is regarded as a major factor sustaining high interest rates in the USA as well as other countries . |
| 13 | Such a change will not be regarded as a major change and you will not be specially advised of such an operational amendment . |
| 14 | His earlier much-fabled ‘ ruthless determination ’ and fanatical single-mindedness were now becoming to be regarded as a major liability , and the command to the 6th Army to fight to the last man was seen as its fateful demonstration . |
| 15 | Any problems with drains should be regarded as a major defect and the details passed on to your solicitor . |
| 16 | If any hostile power monitored that transmission , it could well be regarded as a major breach of national security . |
| 17 | Certainly , it is easy to understand why drainage was regarded as a major manifestation of progress . |
| 18 | Constantine , who presided unchallenged over the Roman Empire from A.D. 312 until his death in 337 , is rightly regarded as a major pivot in the history and development of Christianity . |
| 19 | Though the Constitution on Revelation at Vatican II has often been regarded as the major landmark in Catholic biblical studies , the real turning point had occurred with Divino Afflante Spiritu two decades earlier . |
| 20 | He came to be regarded as the major reason for the government 's post-Falklands electoral strength , its reputation for competence , enterprise , and success . |
| 21 | Darwin is thus treated as a major figure in the history of science because he both popularized the general theory of evolution and discovered the mechanism that seems to offer the best prospect of explaining how the process works . |
| 22 | Alexander was rattled , disturbed in his habits , by instant fame , by being treated as a major dramatist . |
| 23 | It is claimed as a major contribution to identifying and predicting ‘ families in difficulty ’ . |
| 24 | The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation ( FAO ) has claimed as a major success its programme for integrated pest management in rice . |
| 25 | These structural problems will act as a major constraint on any potential recovery in the housing market . |
| 26 | Rather than seeing labourism within the narrow confines of a trade union dominated political intervention at the level of the state , I wish to consider it as a political culture within working-class experience at all levels , which can not be reduced to a bourgeois ethos , and which has as a major component ( but only a component ) the Labour Party . |
| 27 | The University has as a major objective for the future the acquisition of the whole of the Radcliffe Infirmary site , if the Headington Strategy goes ahead , for use for university purposes . |
| 28 | Foucault works from exactly the same tradition in the philosophy and history of science as Althusser : like him he utilizes Bachelard 's concept of differentiated histories , which still stands as the major alternative , epistemic or otherwise , to historicism . |
| 29 | The impact of increased competition between building societies and banks has been blamed as a major determinant of the observed change in relationships among the various monetary aggregates , and between them and nominal incomes . |
| 30 | In addition to doubts about the contracting process , we also take issue with Ham on his singling out of underfunding as the major problem for the future of the NHS . |