Example sentences of "[adv] have a major [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 Since labour costs account for around 60 per cent of operating costs in BR and RENFE , these pressures for financial stringency and cost cutting have naturally had a major impact on industrial relations in the two enterprises as later chapters will show .
4 Recent developments in the area of financial services will obviously have a major impact on this .
5 Although there was a significant reduction in ipsilateral neurological events in the group who had endarterectomy , these events included transient monocular blindness and transient ischaemic attacks , which do not necessarily have a major impact on patients ' wellbeing .
6 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 .
7 ‘ The recession has not had a major impact , ’ said a spokesman .
8 The fact that such technology has already had a major impact upon the leisure industry should not fill us with wild joy .
9 The issue had already had a major impact during the election campaign , when Wolfgang Schnur , a human rights lawyer in Rostock and the leader of Democratic Awakening , resigned his post on March 14 after admitting that he had worked for the Stasi .
10 Some might be willing to grant the general thrust of what has been said , that teaching and research are different kinds of activity , but still be reluctant to accept that teachers in higher education do not have a major responsibility to conduct research .
11 De La Rue chairman Peter Orchard comments : ‘ This does not have a major effect on the results of the company for the half year of for the previous year , but it does have the consequence of increasing marginally our earnings per share in both periods as the result of including within ordinary activities certain items previously classified as extraordinary . ’
12 Camberwell did not have a major industry that distinguished it from other London districts , but it offered sufficient variety of employment to engage a majority of the workforce ; other breadwinners did not have to go far to reach central London .
13 ‘ Reduction in the perceived peace and tranquillity will reduce the attractiveness at Tatton to 80pc of its visitors , thus having a major effect on visitor income and support for the estate . ’
14 So the head of a major I ca n't think of the guy 's name and he just had a major acquisition and this guy was
15 Although not far short of 30 years old , written in social and educational circumstances far different from those that prevail now , and in response to specific problems that no longer have a major place on the agenda for schooling , its basic message remains inspirational .
16 On the other hand anthropological topics , which have always had a major place in Marxism , are often just as difficult as Marxist writings to understand and evaluate for those with a more general interest .
17 ‘ I 'm afraid that you still have a major problem , ’ the family lawyer had pointed out .
18 Although colleges do not award an NVQ themselves , they still have a major role to play in providing the means whereby trainees can gain competence and be assessed in their job .
19 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 .
20 When it comes down to it , common sense also has a major part to play .
21 She 's also had a major skin graft .
22 It has also shown that they are only a part of the explanation of Africa 's problems ; a difficult agricultural base , the inequalities of the world trading system , the sometimes exploitative role of multinational companies have also had a major part to play .
23 The housing slump has also had a major impact on removal firms .
24 The housing slump has also had a major impact on removal firms .
25 Whichever explanation is revealed by the major research effort that is still needed for the rest of the 1980s , the population changes discussed above have also had a major impact on rural communities , and so it is to this topic that attention is now turned .
26 Revision of this 1966 manual would clearly have a major role in influencing local developments in the future , just as Dutch and German Government publications had propagated nationally the relevant experience gained in local experiments .
27 Similarly , by playing roles such as mediator , ideas person , sceptic , analyst , summarizer , you can also have a major impact not only in the meeting but far beyond it .
28 ‘ It could also have a major effect on existing shopping centres , particularly the smaller shopping parade at Marton .
29 This was Tom Chalmers , who had already had a great influence on the development of broadcasting in Nigeria and was later also to have a major impact on the development of radio in Malawi , Zambia , Botswana , Lesotho and Swaziland .
30 Thus , where element analysis by X-ray fluorescence of the inlays on two silver Anglo-Saxon disc brooches shows both to have a major component of silver , with some copper and sulphur .
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