Example sentences of "[verb] [num] [prep] [art] major [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amanda Nobbs of CNP says one of the major problems stems from the government subsidies offered to wind farm developers . |
| 2 | Will he take steps to ensure that buses have greater priority over other road users and to eliminate one of the major causes of road congestion in London — the long time that it takes to get passengers loaded on to one-man operated buses because drivers have to give change to passengers ? |
| 3 | The Lucas ( 1973 ) paper tests one of the major predictions of the rational expectations model developed in chapter 4 and summarized in equation ( 6.1 ) by using cross-country data ; the Barro studies test the other major prediction of that model using data from a single country . |
| 4 | The process of competition stretched the finite resources of the BBC and was to highlight one of the major differences between the two organizations . |
| 5 | Also in 1987 , Conklin [ 17 ] identified one of the major difficulties in current hyper-text systems as the user becoming ‘ lost in hyper-space ’ as a result of losing his way along a trail as a result of the demands made during navigation . |
| 6 | Yet the Treaty of Rome itself describes one of the major aims of company law harmonisation as being to make safeguards for shareholders and third parties ‘ equivalent throughout the Community ’ ( Article 54(3) ( g ) ) |
| 7 | All Saints showed one of the major problems that the health service will face over the next years . |
| 8 | Han and G.R.M. , unpublished data ) , it is likely that FGF-4 serves as an endogenous signal for mesenchyme proliferation and thus performs one of the major functions of the AER in vivo . |
| 9 | From the passages on servants discussed above , the description of work can be judged one of the major concerns of the poem . |
| 10 | Corruption among the Party officials who ran the system of supply and distribution of goods became one of the major sources of conflict between the senior generals and the Party . |
| 11 | These were closely tailored to meet the economic and political needs of the colonizers : education became one of the major instruments for extending colonial power . |
| 12 | Anonymity became one of the major issues of the 1970s legislation , but there is no doubt that the detail of much of the reporting of rape cases in the early 1970s became — and we would argue , has continued to be deliberately titillating . |
| 13 | The budget still represents one of the major sources of executive-assembly controversy . |
| 14 | This pattern of land distribution reflects such great disparities and brings about so much poverty that it represents one of the major problems that agrarian reform has addressed . |
| 15 | It involves very large client groups ( elderly , physically disabled , and mentally ill people as well as people with learning disabilities ) ; constitutes one of the major tasks of the personal social services ; and it is an arena in which hopes and aspirations have consistently been disappointed ( Walker , 1982 ; Webb and Wistow , 1986 ; Martin , 1987 ) . |
| 16 | A more effective matching of workers and jobs constitutes one of the major challenges facing central government in the final years of the twentieth century . |
| 17 | It is believed one of the major problems facing the clubs ' proposals then was the fact that they were both in the same league . |
| 18 | When people of different generations decide to live together , because the older of the two is in need of care , they are making one of the major decisions of their lives . |
| 19 | But in Central America and the Andean countries , they constitute one of the major groups in society . |
| 20 | Your free gift this month will enable you to check one of the major elements — the pH . |
| 21 | This removed one of the major justifications for different retirement ages ; nevertheless they have remained . |
| 22 | These demonstrations were organised by the National Unemployed Workers ' Movement , and their actions illustrate one of the major differences between responses to unemployment in the 1920s and 1930s and current responses . |
| 23 | Vietnam 's co-operation in the Cambodian peace process had removed one of the major obstacles to normalization , but there remained the issue of approximately 2,300 US service personnel reported missing in action ( MIAs ) in the war and still unaccounted for . |
| 24 | I introduced the concept to this country during the 1987 General Election in an attempt to overcome one of the major difficulties facing campaign organisers : getting consistent standards of presentation . |
| 25 | Our present study was designed to examine one of the major sources of information available to people about rape and sexual assault — newspaper reports of the crimes . |
| 26 | The association between age , adaptability , and psychological theory remains one of the major factors that disables older people , particularly within a society in which ‘ change ’ and ‘ progress ’ are increasingly important . |
| 27 | The persistence of severe and deep-rooted regional imbalances in regional economic and social well-being remains one of the major issues that will shape future public policy developments and their impact in the 1990's . |
| 28 | As has been previously stated one of the major problems with morphology is determination of the word boundaries in a string . |
| 29 | There are serious problems with this subject match thesis as we shall see , but the subject match initiative undoubtedly provides one of the major thrusts behind the intended improvement of teaching quality . |
| 30 | So far as we know he was never a merchant , and he never went on crusade , but had he been he would have experienced all the five ways in which travel fundamentally impinged on the folk of the twelfth century ; and if we consider the impact made by the wandering scholars and the growing universities , the flow of litigants and diplomats to and from the papal Curia , the countless pilgrims and pilgrimages , the crusades at their most popular , and the commercial revolution upon the world of the central Middle Ages — then a love of travel and a readiness to travel must be accounted one of the major catalysts of change . |