Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [prep] [art] major [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously many of the major objections raised here could be alleviated by simply bolting on a full QWERTY keyboard using full-travel keys this is surely not the ideal answer . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | GEC Ferranti , British Gas , Procter and Gamble , Logica and Scottish Widows are just some of the major companies backing the courses . |
| 6 | Equitable Life , Royal Life and Save & Prosper are just three of the major companies with school fee plans . |
| 7 | The construction of a new brewhouse , designed to produce over 2.5 million pints a day , was just one of the major projects undertaken . |
| 8 | However , it may be wrong to assume that this inability to create a coordinated response is a bad thing : a truly-integrated response to the cities from the Conservative governments elected in 1979 and after might have been even more detrimental to the major conurbations than it has been . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | This is clearly implicit in the major reforms introduced by President Gorbachev . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | There was , therefore , a strong and general assumption that the highest diplomatic appointments , and particularly those in the major capitals or in which a strong ceremonial and symbolic element was still involved ( notably the embassies of the Catholic powers to the papacy ) should normally be given to great aristocrats . |
| 17 | They are the andesites , named after the Andes where they make up almost all of the major volcanoes . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , it is important for translators to become familiar with at least one of the major models proposed within this alternative tradition . |
| 20 | Yet one of the major events in its railway history looks set to go unnoticed because of lack of council funding . |
| 21 | I was one of a " lost generation " who remained blissfully ignorant of the major advances in preventative health care . |
| 22 | More details of the effect on lifestyle of sufferers are shown in table V. Only 30–45% ( 63–94 ) feel very confident in the major activities of social life . |