Example sentences of "[be] [verb] a major part " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is only in the last hundred and fifty years , in any culture , that a majority of people have had even minimal access to this technique which already , over two millennia , had been carrying a major part of human culture . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It 's become a major part of my job . |
| 4 | In fact , a most significant area for dealing with the problem , if not in some cases accounting for it altogether , is to realise a major part lies not outside ourselves ( in them and their attitudes ) , but with me ( in me and my attitudes — in my inner reactions , habits of mind , prejudices and habitual behaviour given certain threatening circumstances ) . |
| 5 | An important feature of these interactions , which was to play a major part in the new interactionism , was that we use stereotypical ‘ labels ’ to make sense of other people , based on cues or knowledge that we have about them . |
| 6 | Edmund of Lancaster , loyal to the end , was to play a major part in the Anglo-French diplomacy of the 1290s and died represent-ing his brother as lieutenant in Aquitaine at Bayonne on 5 June 1296 . |
| 7 | The Doctor , still mistaken for Pettulian , learns of a conspiracy against Nero in which the murdered lyre player was to play a major part . |