Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [art] major [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The clearing bands are amongst the major providers of mortgage finance . |
| 2 | But this would only be in the major things , Cassie . |
| 3 | Events of the past week have shown it is not likely to be among the major companies that total collapses will occur . |
| 4 | Several of these are the homes of major defence contractors ( such as Boeing in Washington ) , and should be among the major beneficiaries of the defence appropriation process ; some of the links are less obvious , such as that between the alfalfa producers of inland Texas and the production of military uniforms . |
| 5 | Pet-seekers are among the major customers for monkeys , while rhino horn , tiger bone and bear gall bladders are sold for use in " traditional " oriental medicine . |
| 6 | The feat was all the more admirable in that the notorious Armstrongs had been among the major headaches in the region under his own jurisdiction , and Willie was among the worst . |
| 7 | They have also been among the major victims of the failure of the government 's inner city policies . |
| 8 | Not only does such an arrangement disrupt the child 's schooling — although arguably it has already been badly disrupted by the child 's absenteeism — but it can often also be a traumatic experience for the child , entrenching the resentment and disaffection which were among the major causes of the child 's truancy in the first place . |
| 9 | In an interview in the newspaper Adevarul on July 11 , Adrian Severin , a Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister for Reform and Relations with Parliament , singled out a shortage of competent people , the bureaucratic resistance to change and the tendency to " over-rate the social cost of reform " as being among the major obstacles to the implementation of the transitional economic programme . |
| 10 | The company , a specialist arm of the P&O European Transport Service ( POETS ) group , is amongst the major players in the UK roadtanks and tank container business , with prestigious clients including Shell , British Sugar , BP , ICI and Procter & Gamble . |