Example sentences of "[adv] [num] [prep] the major [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | In both England and France the need to make armies mobile was perhaps one of the major developments of the period , and shows how important versatility was coming to be regarded by the leaders of the day . |
2 | This appointment as adviser of a practising physician in charge of a big , busy clinic was perhaps one of the major factors in the evolution of a co-ordinated service throughout the country . |
3 | If it enabled the latter the crucial theoretical move of being able to reject the classical empiricist conception of knowledge , it was also to put him in the position of even castigating as ‘ historicist ’ any attempts to account for theoretical discourse in terms of its historical conditions of production — perhaps one of the major ways in which he differed from Canguilhem and Foucault . |
4 | In July 1947 , while Rank was in America negotiating with the five major companies , the British government responded to its own problem , a serious dollar shortage , by trying to slow down one of the major outflows and imposing a 75 per cent levy on remittable income from foreign films . |
5 | Equitable Life , Royal Life and Save & Prosper are just three of the major companies with school fee plans . |
6 | The construction of a new brewhouse , designed to produce over 2.5 million pints a day , was just one of the major projects undertaken . |
7 | However good scenery is not one of the major virtues on the critical scale ; many published opinions throw it in as a sop , a makeweight to balance what they see as much more serious flaws deep in the heart of the Tolkienian ‘ fable ’ , in the essential story of The Lord of the Rings . |
8 | This is probably one of the major factors behind the explosive rise in the birthrate and population ( the ‘ demographic transition ’ ) from the late eighteenth century . |
9 | The London Boroughs derive considerable extra assessed needs from their higher population densities , particularly when the figures are made more nearly comparable ( those in parentheses ) ; moreover , density is used in several of the other expenditure needs assessments and is probably one of the major factors in providing the higher assessed needs for London , especially Inner London , in comparison with other major Metropolitan Districts . |
10 | Clearly one of the major difficulties of applying the standard Comintern model of a vanguard Communist party with a proletarian base to the Latin American situation was that the proletariat in the majority of these countries was small in size , rural in origin and lacking in organisation and political consciousness . |
11 | It is also one of the major voices in the industry , with John Chance acting as chairman of the Federation of Civil Engineering Contractors ’ Opencast Coal Committee for the last two years . |
12 | In pursuing the campaign for family allowances ( initially intended to provide the mother with a wage as well as allowances for children ) , mainstream feminists of the inter-war years were picking up one of the major demands of labour women 's groups prior to World War I and consciously taking on board social issues of importance to working class women . |
13 | The state of the nation was inevitably one of the major themes of the talk on the hills at that period ; but so also was the change that was taking place rapidly in the collieries of the steam-coal areas where work was being ‘ rationalized ’ , a much-used euphemism for the cutting of labour costs . |
14 | Now one of the major issues that we 're concerned about of course is the overtime erm which is , if you review the last three months of the overtime which we did the other day , erm we obviously , we spent the annual budget erm allowance . |
15 | Indeed one of the major conclusions to be drawn from the historical and sociological discussion in this chapter is that a proper analysis of the operation of ‘ race ’ as an element in British society and education requires an understanding of its interrelationship with the structured and cultural divisions which derive from class and gender relations , in the context of an understanding of Britain 's past imperial domination and its continuing legacies . |
16 | Nevertheless , it is important for translators to become familiar with at least one of the major models proposed within this alternative tradition . |
17 | Yet one of the major events in its railway history looks set to go unnoticed because of lack of council funding . |