Example sentences of "[noun] be [verb] a major [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have a record going well back into the Cambrian , when it might be supposed that the chordates were undergoing a major diversification . |
| 2 | Now scientific education and research were to become a major feature of America 's drive to supplant Europe as the centre of western culture . |
| 3 | The HHA is to undertake a major dredging scheme at the port this year and is eager to co-operate with the NRA by allowing it to use the extracted sand , clay , gravel and rock as a barrier to sea erosion on sites like The Naze . |
| 4 | The ambition is to have a major tournament here by 95 … and the ryder cup soon after that … |
| 5 | During the tumultuous years that followed , Nottinghamshire was to play a major role in the bitter conflict . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | The ME Action Campaign is waging a major campaign to validate ME as a disease . |
| 8 | Anyone seeking political asylum is taking a major step . |
| 9 | Bureaucracy was becoming a major issue in contemporary China . |
| 10 | This cat-and-mouse game between engineers and the elements was to become a major theme in the next great age of wetland reclamation , which began under the Tudors and reached its climax in the middle of the seventeenth century . |
| 11 | It was announced that HCIMA was to lead a major industry initiative to consider a Quality assurance programme designed specifically for the industry . |
| 12 | FORMER workers from one of Darlington 's biggest factories are holding a major reunion next week . |
| 13 | Provision for children with special educational needs is becoming a major problem , leading to overspending in a considerable proportion of local authority education budgets . |
| 14 | CITIZENS Financial Group is taking a major step towards its goal of doubling in size within a 100-mile radius of its Providence , Rhode Island headquarters . |
| 15 | Increasingly in universities and colleges modernity is becoming a major concept whose usage is increasingly following American philosophical and sociological meanings . |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ We appreciate that tenants are facing a major decision on who their new landlord will be , ’ said Edinvar director Robin Burley . |
| 18 | Consultants are playing a major role in helping companies go through the process of achieving BS5750 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | In poorly drained areas extensive cattle ranching is predominant while in better-drained areas annual cropping is expanding and in some cases , especially in Venezuela , irrigation is making a major contribution to agricultural development . |
| 21 | The people of East Kilbride are celebrating a major victory against plans by an American owned company to build a tyre recycling plant in the new town . |
| 22 | The people of East Kilbride are celebrating a major victory against an American owned company which wanted to build a tyre recycling plant in the new town . |
| 23 | The people of East Kilbride are celebrating a major victory against an American owned company which wanted to build a tyre recycling plant in the new town . |
| 24 | Although overlooked by your ‘ Action Directory ’ , the World Development Movement is running a major campaign on official debt and the World Bank and IMF ‘ adjustment ’ policies . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | If one relates this position to citation studies in the humanities which show that well over 50% of books cited have imprint dates up to 35 years ago and earlier , the increasing tendency to search only the OPAC , and ignore the card catalogue is doing a major disservice to scholars and their potential exploitation of the resources of research libraries . |
| 27 | The Civil Rights movement was given a major thrust forward by the ‘ Caledon squatting incident ’ ( 20 June 1968 ) . |
| 28 | The Government are making a major error by dismissing local income tax out of hand . |
| 29 | SCIENTISTS are claiming a major breakthrough in the fight against Aids . |
| 30 | 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 . |