Example sentences of "[be] [verb] a major [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In this Olympic year we are making a major commitment to athletics . ’ |
| 32 | A former British Steel employee , nonconformist preacher and member of the Round Table , he is the most local of the candidates and local issues are playing a major role in his electioneering . |
| 33 | Consultants are playing a major role in helping companies go through the process of achieving BS5750 . |
| 34 | SCIENTISTS are claiming a major breakthrough in the fight against Aids . |
| 35 | One of Britain 's 12 national trails , the North Downs Way , is being given a major facelift over the next three years . |
| 36 | At the same time as teacher education and the new colleges of higher education were becoming a major component of the CNAA 's repertoire of subjects and institutions , the Council and the NCDAD were coming closer together . |
| 37 | But the war was here the occasion for their collective expression , at a time when , with the threat of invasion passed , debates about the future shape of British society were becoming a major ingredient in political discussion . |
| 38 | The British Defence White Paper of 1958 laid down with surprising confidence the circumstances in which it would unleash nuclear weapons : ‘ It must be well understood that if Russia were to launch a major attack , even with conventional weapons only , the West would have to hit back with strategic nuclear weapons . ’ |
| 39 | More specifically it was in southern California , Reagan 's home territory , that political issues began to surface that were to play a major part in national politics in the years that followed . |
| 40 | We were initiating a major change in the teaching of English which would need great good will and understanding from all teachers . |
| 41 | They have a record going well back into the Cambrian , when it might be supposed that the chordates were undergoing a major diversification . |
| 42 | So quite clearly we were experiencing a major change in tourism patterns in this country . |
| 43 | By the mid-1970s the CNAA and its institutions were making a major contribution to legal education : a survey in 1976/77 showed that there were then thirty-two university law schools and twenty-two polytechnics and other colleges offering undergraduate law degree courses , the most recent being at the Polytechnics of North East London and Preston in 1975 , and the Polytechnic of Wales in 1977 . |
| 44 | It added that Serb sources said their opponents were making a major effort to capture Mount Caus , which dominates the area , but the Serbs were holding firm . |
| 45 | Well , as Hereford United were battling against on the pitch , behind the scenes West Mercia Police were mounting a major operation to control the crowd and prevent battles off the pitch between rival fans . |
| 46 | Meanwhile , the French were mounting a major attack on Boulogne . |
| 47 | Now scientific education and research were to become a major feature of America 's drive to supplant Europe as the centre of western culture . |
| 48 | While Japanese computers were hardly a factor in the boom years , they were to become a major force in the 1980s . |
| 49 | The ME Action Campaign is waging a major campaign to validate ME as a disease . |
| 50 | Increasingly in universities and colleges modernity is becoming a major concept whose usage is increasingly following American philosophical and sociological meanings . |
| 51 | Provision for children with special educational needs is becoming a major problem , leading to overspending in a considerable proportion of local authority education budgets . |
| 52 | Detective Inspector Keith Felton , head of the Northumbria Drug Squad , says Ecstasy is becoming a major problem . |
| 53 | As the price of computers decreases and as they become incorporated in a wide range of domestic goods , from cookers to calculators , the ordinary consumer is becoming a major purchaser of electronic gadgetry . |
| 54 | Speaking in Brussels , where the Community dimension of the drama is becoming a major debate , the Labour leader , Mr Neil Kinnock , said : ‘ Freedom is magnetic and it is natural that the people of Eastern Europe should lunge for it at their first chance . ’ |
| 55 | But it 's becoming a major issue as landfill sites fill up . |
| 56 | Community Care is launching a major campaign this week to press the government to respond to a hidden national scandal — the abuse of elderly people in their own homes . |
| 57 | HAVERHILL Meat Products , one of the UK 's largest meat processors , is launching a major business expansion under a fresh identity . |
| 58 | Dracula star Monica Bellucci is to front a major publicity push in a move which could leave the supermodels out in the cold . |
| 59 | BT is supporting a major research project within the University 's Centre for Speech Technology Research to design and test computer generated dialogues for more efficient and flexible automated telephone services . |
| 60 | It 's become a major part of my job . |