Example sentences of "[num] [prep] [art] major [noun pl] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh , one of the major journals for Scottish geology , was ranked in two hundred and eighty-ninth place . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | One of the major reasons for the widespread failure of rural developments is that it usually does not serve the interests of the people at whom it is ostensibly aimed . |
| 4 | SWINGEING UK premium hikes were one of the major reasons for a dramatic profits turnround by insurance giant Commercial Union in the third quarter of 1992 . |
| 5 | Whether the weavers of today are aware of the symbolic meaning of their designs — or whether they simply reproduce them out of a general reverence for tradition — is a matter of considerable debate , but there is no doubt that the symbolic potency of nomadic designs is one of the major reasons for their growing popularity in the West . |
| 6 | The prison officers have been seen as one of the major reasons for , not one of the victims of , the mismanagement of the prison service . |
| 7 | What 's one of the major reasons for growth in manufactures ? |
| 8 | Although Distinction is surely the most significant contribution to the study of consumption made by any anthropologist , and one of the major resources for obtaining a better understanding of our own culture , there are certain important limitations to the work . |
| 9 | One of the major difficulties for practitioners in understanding the LM method is this idea of the patient continuing to take the remedy even when they are feeling better . |
| 10 | One of the major problems for local authorities is the computer software that is essential for the efficient billing and collecting of the tax . |
| 11 | One of the major problems for us , whichever Party 's in in control , and I think if Councillor had gone to the press after this report was done and , rather than trying to score points and saying it 's all because it 's lack of Government cash , if he 'd appli if he 'd said , let's all get together on this , let's try and solve the problem , the problem 's been going on indefinitely , let's try and s , he might have gained more credibility . |
| 12 | One of the major incentives for managing accidents has come from the insurance industry . |
| 13 | Fishing was one of the major activities for Minoans living on the coast , but there is as yet no evidence for the way in which they organized their fishing . |
| 14 | Cost is one of the major factors for churches in deciding between an electronic and a pipe instrument . |
| 15 | Indeed , one of the major arguments for the promotion of ‘ community care ’ over the past decades — its lower cost , compared with institutional and residential alternatives — has been sustainable precisely because the costs to carers and their families have been largely ignored . |
| 16 | Man needs to have some understanding of how this , and other atrocities , are possible as one of the major ways for avoiding them in the future . |
| 17 | The town centre has been pedestrianised and acts as one of the major foci for walk trips . |
| 18 | Mr Tabiner , 40 , sees the unitary issue as one of the major issues for the council over the next few years . |
| 19 | German war records rescued after the last war showed that Hitler 's use of astrology was one of the major causes for his demise . |
| 20 | This removed one of the major justifications for different retirement ages ; nevertheless they have remained . |
| 21 | Such strings can easily be found by search programming , and the rapidity of such searching is one of the major justifications for using a computer for storing data . |
| 22 | Originally England could supply the necessary quantities of corn from its own surplus , and later it was able to re-export corn from the Baltic , which was one of the major granaries for the lands of western Europe in the late Middle Ages . |
| 23 | Determined to delve deeper into the matter , the DFG , one of the major channels for state funds for research which distributes DM 900 million ( £200 million ) annually for all subjects , has asked some of Germany 's top researchers to review their own areas and try to pin down some of the problems . |