Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [verb] a major [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now scientific education and research were to become a major feature of America 's drive to supplant Europe as the centre of western culture . |
| 2 | The HHA is to undertake a major dredging scheme at the port this year and is eager to co-operate with the NRA by allowing it to use the extracted sand , clay , gravel and rock as a barrier to sea erosion on sites like The Naze . |
| 3 | The ambition is to have a major tournament here by 95 … and the ryder cup soon after that … |
| 4 | The ME Action Campaign is waging a major campaign to validate ME as a disease . |
| 5 | Anyone seeking political asylum is taking a major step . |
| 6 | Bureaucracy was becoming a major issue in contemporary China . |
| 7 | CITIZENS Financial Group is taking a major step towards its goal of doubling in size within a 100-mile radius of its Providence , Rhode Island headquarters . |
| 8 | Increasingly in universities and colleges modernity is becoming a major concept whose usage is increasingly following American philosophical and sociological meanings . |
| 9 | Speaking in Brussels , where the Community dimension of the drama is becoming a major debate , the Labour leader , Mr Neil Kinnock , said : ‘ Freedom is magnetic and it is natural that the people of Eastern Europe should lunge for it at their first chance . ’ |
| 10 | At the same time as teacher education and the new colleges of higher education were becoming a major component of the CNAA 's repertoire of subjects and institutions , the Council and the NCDAD were coming closer together . |
| 11 | In poorly drained areas extensive cattle ranching is predominant while in better-drained areas annual cropping is expanding and in some cases , especially in Venezuela , irrigation is making a major contribution to agricultural development . |
| 12 | Although overlooked by your ‘ Action Directory ’ , the World Development Movement is running a major campaign on official debt and the World Bank and IMF ‘ adjustment ’ policies . |
| 13 | As the price of computers decreases and as they become incorporated in a wide range of domestic goods , from cookers to calculators , the ordinary consumer is becoming a major purchaser of electronic gadgetry . |
| 14 | If one relates this position to citation studies in the humanities which show that well over 50% of books cited have imprint dates up to 35 years ago and earlier , the increasing tendency to search only the OPAC , and ignore the card catalogue is doing a major disservice to scholars and their potential exploitation of the resources of research libraries . |
| 15 | The Civil Rights movement was given a major thrust forward by the ‘ Caledon squatting incident ’ ( 20 June 1968 ) . |
| 16 | The Government are making a major error by dismissing local income tax out of hand . |
| 17 | But the war was here the occasion for their collective expression , at a time when , with the threat of invasion passed , debates about the future shape of British society were becoming a major ingredient in political discussion . |
| 18 | THE most famous observatory in the world is to get a major relaunch next month . |
| 19 | Detective Inspector Keith Felton , head of the Northumbria Drug Squad , says Ecstasy is becoming a major problem . |
| 20 | Community Care is launching a major campaign this week to press the government to respond to a hidden national scandal — the abuse of elderly people in their own homes . |
| 21 | He will know that British Rail is considering a major remodelling of the station , in part to handle the arrival of the Jubilee line . |
| 22 | The Lombard Scheme was given a major boost in 1992 through the graduation of its first 31 MBAs . |
| 23 | In such a policy , the social security system was to play a major role since ‘ the income provided by the scheme to persons who are sick , unemployed , injured or past work will almost invariably be spent to the full . ’ |
| 24 | Recent political upheavals in Eastern Europe and the increasing articulation of a European identity are forcing a major rethinking in the politics , history and philosophies of nationality , the nation-state and their boundaries . |
| 25 | The British Section is making a major commitment to a new computer system , which should both improve efficiency and help us work more flexibly with the national membership . |
| 26 | Thirdly , the new technology is having a major impact at work , for a number of reasons . |
| 27 | The Doctor , still mistaken for Pettulian , learns of a conspiracy against Nero in which the murdered lyre player was to play a major part . |