Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] be a major [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The study of attitudes has been a major topic , if not the major topic , in social psychology . |
| 2 | Gathering the right cast a mix of straight theatre , dance and mime performers has been a major task . |
| 3 | Indeed the ability to produce a range of returns on value for money indices has been a major factor in securing continued treasury funding . |
| 4 | The insights of the church growth movement in showing the impact of culture in these areas has been a major contribution to the Church 's understanding of its missionary task in recent decades . |
| 5 | Studies of social change in rural communities have been a major theme in rural community work since the early 1950s , when the first typologies ( some of which have already been discussed in Chapter 4 , and notably in Tables 4.6 and 4.7 were developed . |
| 6 | Whilst uncertainty about the volume and growth of defence spending is unlikely to be resolved unless the Soviet regime changes its character , few would dispute that the military 's traditional claim on resources has been a major burden on the civilian economy . |
| 7 | The soap giant is repackaging Wisk , through Fisher Ling & Bennion , as part of what industry sources believe is a major marketing initiative to revitalise the brand 's fortunes . |
| 8 | He called on their respective governments to cut their public spending by up to 18 per cent , to exercise monetary restraint ( banknote issuing by local authorities having been a major factor in the inflationary spiral of the previous year ) , and to co-operate more fully with national policy decisions . |
| 9 | Although this analysis is not strictly accurate — there is always a compression/decompression overhead of about 5 per cent — the benefits and potential cost savings are substantial and compression techniques have been a major field of development from the time of the very earliest digital databases . |
| 10 | Glyn and Sutcliffe ( 1972 ) argued that low profits have been a major factor in low levels of investment in the UK . |
| 11 | The distribution of the special ZIMSCI materials has been a major headache . |
| 12 | Notwithstanding problems of this kind there has been undoubted improvement in VDU design and it has been speculated that trade union pressure for high design standards has been a major stimulus to companies marketing their products on the basis of user acceptability . " |
| 13 | The growth of overseas financial institutions in terms of their numbers has been a major factor in the formalisation of supervision with more emphasis on the ‘ rulebook ’ and a relative decline in the less formal traditional system . |
| 14 | Brainstorming on creative tasks has been a major activity in the advertising business where it began in the 1930s . |
| 15 | Sporting endeavours have been a major feature of the activities undertaken so far ( see Update ) . |