Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] been [art] major [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Transport of raw materials for energy use has long been a major sector in marine commerce but coal in particular has been the dominant single energy cargo . |
| 2 | ICI has long been a major supplier of surfactants , which are the active ingredient in detergents . |
| 3 | The area has always been a major centre for the narcotics trade . |
| 4 | As we will see in Chapter 9 , language production has also been a major area of study for researchers concerned with acquired language disorders in adults . |
| 5 | It should also be stressed that it is perfectly possible to have reservations about , or even to reject , both these schools , and yet to accept that there has indeed been a major shift in the economy and geography of the UK since the mid-1960s ! |
| 6 | I mean , ranking of the countries descending as business in the way it changes , and Japan comes first , Germany 's gone down in recent years because of that trouble , but America has consistently been the major investor in this country . |
| 7 | To me , a band with the profile of The Wedding Present , for Shaun to leave under the circumstances he did , it should have actually been a major story , ’ he says . |
| 8 | Of course , Jessamy 's arrival on the scene as Julius 's fiancée had obviously been a major crisis . |
| 9 | Given that Paisley 's ability to predict political events had always been a major part of his public image , one would have expected the electorate to turn against him , especially when he had committed his personal prestige to the extent of offering to resign if the strike did not change British policy . |
| 10 | Fishing had always been a major industry . |
| 11 | During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the pace of Mediterranean commercial life slackened and the inland sea , which had once been the major artery of European trade , became a cul-de-sac . |
| 12 | The report concluded that there had consequently been a major increase in defaults and arrears during 1990 , with some $85,000 million of interest and capital repayment outstanding at the end of the year , about three times the level recorded in 1985 . |
| 13 | As these teachers realized they were not to get the major posts of responsibility , that their objective career progression had come to an end , that their own subject expertise was being compared unfavourably with that of their colleagues from former grammar schools , and that they were to be allocated the ‘ dirty work ’ of teaching the lower-ability groups in the lower streams — they formed a staff counterculture which set about resisting the initiatives of the head , and they withdrew that commitment and enthusiasm in the classroom that had previously been a major part of their secondary modern identity : |
| 14 | ‘ Instead she has , in effect , admitted that the problems have obviously been a major topic of conversation at the highest level . ’ |
| 15 | The effects of changes in land use on groundwater quality can thus be very significant , and they have again been a major aspect of the BGS Hydrogeology Group 's work . |