Example sentences of "[num] [prep] [art] major [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As far as career or professional interests are concerned , three of the major planets in Capricorn urge you to come up with permanent rather than makeshift solutions . |
| 2 | Equitable Life , Royal Life and Save & Prosper are just three of the major companies with school fee plans . |
| 3 | They are the source of five of the major rivers of the Midlands . |
| 4 | As we have mentioned , fifteen of the major corporations in the United States are seen to receive the bulk of government contracts . |
| 5 | One of the major conclusions of the study was that the stability of democracy in the USA and Britain was indeed due to the achievement of a finely balanced civic culture . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But however the causes may be conceived , it remains that war itself is one of the major forms of political conflict , and that war has important and far-reaching political consequences . |
| 8 | The need to start younger members of a family upon a career frequently brought a freeholder to seek the aid of a politician , and this was one of the major elements in interest building . |
| 9 | So far as we know he was never a merchant , and he never went on crusade , but had he been he would have experienced all the five ways in which travel fundamentally impinged on the folk of the twelfth century ; and if we consider the impact made by the wandering scholars and the growing universities , the flow of litigants and diplomats to and from the papal Curia , the countless pilgrims and pilgrimages , the crusades at their most popular , and the commercial revolution upon the world of the central Middle Ages — then a love of travel and a readiness to travel must be accounted one of the major catalysts of change . |
| 10 | One of the major tenets of the mental models theory of text comprehension is that the model of the text so far provides ( part of ) the context for understanding the current sentence . |
| 11 | Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh , one of the major journals for Scottish geology , was ranked in two hundred and eighty-ninth place . |
| 12 | One of the major functions of education must be to open people 's eyes to the fact that things were at one time different ; that they have evolved to where they are now ; and that they need not necessarily always remain as they are . |
| 13 | Han and G.R.M. , unpublished data ) , it is likely that FGF-4 serves as an endogenous signal for mesenchyme proliferation and thus performs one of the major functions of the AER in vivo . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The latter have not yet really taken root in movies , but may be one of the major developments of the 1990s . |
| 16 | It was one of the major developments in locomotive design and was adopted worldwide . |
| 17 | As we have seen , the establishment of the four Institutes of Higher Education has been one of the major developments in Welsh further education in recent years . |
| 18 | I was also disappointed that no mention was made in the Queen 's Speech of one of the major consequences of the Gulf war — the plight of the Kurdish people throughout the region . |
| 19 | My hon. Friend was one of the major promoters of the scheme to bring electricity to Rathlin . |
| 20 | One of the major properties of the benzodiazapines is amnesia . |
| 21 | One of the major findings of criminology in the last decade has been the importance of repeat victimisation as a contributor to the overall crime rate . |
| 22 | One of the major disadvantages of MRI in the chest is the inability to visualise the lungs , which are simply seen as a signal void . |
| 23 | One of the major benefits of this approach is that it promotes a sense of being ‘ in control ’ of the disease . |
| 24 | A more flexible approach to the policy structure by these two underwriters will be one of the major benefits of this more competitive market . |
| 25 | One of the major benefits of congestion metering is its simplicity . |
| 26 | It must be one of the major frustrations of being a veterinary surgeon that you can never convince your patients that you are on their side and are working tirelessly to save them and help them back to full health . |
| 27 | These were closely tailored to meet the economic and political needs of the colonizers : education became one of the major instruments for extending colonial power . |
| 28 | One of the major criticisms of these previous theories has been that they have tended to see their subject matter ( that is , rule-breaking ) as straightforward and easily identifiable — crime being behaviour that breaks certain of the rules of society . |
| 29 | One of the major criticisms of the battery cage has been that it is so small that the hens have no room to move or to perform their natural behaviour patterns . |
| 30 | Individuals may be seen as ‘ cogs in the machine ’ and one of the major criticisms of Taylor 's approach was that he had a tendency to treat workers as automatons who would respond to financial incentives automatically . |