Example sentences of "[noun] has [verb] the major [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Revisionist research has underlined the major scale of those mutinies , and the abruptness with which soldiers refused to implement orders to crush disturbances and began instead to press their own grievances . |
| 2 | The international rock star Bruce Springsteen has spurned the major venues in London to play a concert here in the Central region . |
| 3 | ‘ The controversy surrounding the employment arrangements of John Birt has obscured the major issue in British broadcasting — the future of the BBC beyond 1996 when its current charter expires , ’ says the letter . |
| 4 | In the letter to the Times , the board members say : ‘ The controversy surrounding the employment arrangements of John Birt has obscured the major issue in British broadcasting — the future of the BBC beyond 1996 when its current Charter expires . |
| 5 | A section of opinion believes that the emphasis on the Green Belt has obscured the major threat to the traditional British countryside which lies in the inappropriate development of small country towns . |
| 6 | Döldissen has listed the major characteristics of the six research areas ( Figure 6.1 ) . |
| 7 | In the old world continual distraction has become the major weapon of control — bread and circuses — or the modern equivalent : football , royalty , and fashion . |
| 8 | Since the widespread use of insulin therapy during the 1920s , macrovascular disease has become the major cause of morbidity and mortality in the diabetic subject in both the UK and USA ( Entmacher et al , 1964 ; Marble , 1976 ; Tunbridge , 1981 ) . |