Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [verb] a major [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The regional authorities have a major role in resource and curriculum planning for the school and community education sectors . |
| 2 | The imposition of an additional levy on alien exporters in 1303 had led to English merchants playing a major part in handling wool shipments later in the century , but it was Edward III 's war taxation for his French campaigns , much of which was derived from levies on wool exports , which did most to promote the development of cloth manufacture in England , by creating a tariff barrier which raised the costs of the raw material to the foreign manufacturers . |
| 3 | Daily encounters in residential settings underwent a major change because the needs of young people are different from those of children . |
| 4 | With such complacency , it would be an abrogation of our duty to allow two commercial companies to ruin a major industry and its jobs and to wipe out a multi-billion pound investment made on behalf of taxpayers . |
| 5 | Clients of licensed dealers find a major problem in selling back their OTC stock . |
| 6 | The distribution of spontaneous amplitudes showed a major peak at 250μV , which is in reasonable agreement with the quantal size of the evoked response . |
| 7 | There was a substantial body of opinion which would support the view that , whatever convictions were held on the merits , it would be inopportune to introduce this experiment in the unsettled conditions following a major war , when the number of violent crimes was abnormally high and respect for the sanctity of human life had inevitably been impaired by the circumstances of war . |
| 8 | The wide disparity that has emerged between house prices in different regions provides a major obstacle to geographical mobility of labour . |
| 9 | While earlier growth was more dependent on manpower and the recovery factor , increases in working capital and improved techniques played a major role subsequently . |
| 10 | The breaking down of any skilled trade into less skilled or specialized components carried a major threat to the whole apprenticeship system and to the notion of the craft as well as damaging the control of the worker over the work process , as Taylorization in the twentieth century would clearly demonstrate . |
| 11 | Such policies present a major obstacle to some food exports ( e.g. sugar ) from LDCs . |
| 12 | The ethnic borders remain a major constraint and not until they have been done away with can we be effective . |
| 13 | In the post-war period some democratic elitists detected a major flaw in this notion of bureaucratic rationality . |
| 14 | For this reason , accurate diagnosis of underlying causes on the basis of visible symptoms plays a major part in the treatment of physical illnesses and will often enable doctors to provide accurate predictions about the future course of the illness . |
| 15 | Such trends provide a major explanation for the rise in worldwide unemployment in the 1970s and 1980s . |
| 16 | I want the Liberal Democrats to play a major part , both in Britain and in Europe , to turning things round . |
| 17 | In addition , since US banks had limited placing power in Europe , European banks played a major part in distribution . |
| 18 | It also pointed out that all these proposals had a major weakness in that none of them gave consideration to the university sector , which because of its involvement in the provision and validation of teacher-training courses and because of the different , smaller scale of Welsh provision , made its contribution more critical . |
| 19 | How to avert both these dangers became a major concern among employers , politicians and in the press , although optimism remained that solutions could be found . |
| 20 | Quantification of these effects presents a major challenge for the future . |
| 21 | These circumstances play a major role in determining the variety of rearing systems found in nature . |
| 22 | These reforms made a major contribution to the stability of independent Tanzania 's administration . |
| 23 | This suggests that the solution of limestone in such areas must be controlled by components other than carbonic acid and it seems likely that organic acids play a major role . |
| 24 | The fact that important elements in the Labour Party were thinking in these terms marked a major shift from the ideals expressed in the party 's 1945 election manifesto , Let Us Face The Future : ‘ [ we shall ] plan from the ground up , giving an appropriate place to constructive enterprise and private endeavour in the national plan ’ . |
| 25 | A series of natural disasters played a major part in hampering growth in Bangladesh 's economy in late 1988 and in 1989 . |
| 26 | The same topics were addressed in a White Paper in 1985 , and these issues became a major concern of the Education Reform Act which introduced a national curriculum backed up by standardised tests at the ages of seven , eleven , fourteen and sixteen . |
| 27 | The Library Association is deeply concerned that the imposition of these bans constitutes a major breach of the traditional principle that public libraries should be a neutral and non-partisan service , a principle which goes back to the beginning of the public libraries in the middle of the nineteenth century . |
| 28 | The regular clergy remained a major source of friction , however , and the claims of Benedictine and Cistercian monasteries and nunneries could often run counter to the interests of secular nobles . |
| 29 | The ‘ absence ’ of international issues is , however , in many ways an illusion : one can say that if formal controversy over foreign policy was markedly absent from the campaign , international factors played a major role in shaping it , and , even more so , to affect the future course of British politics , whatever the incumbent government does . |
| 30 | An estimated 50,000 people were reported killed [ see p. 38081 ] , and the ensuing terror in Kurdish-inhabited areas precipitated a major refugee crisis as hundreds of thousands sought refuge in neighbouring Turkey and Iran . |