Example sentences of "[that] [num] [prep] [art] major [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a growing consensus that one of the major factors contributing to the relatively poor record of labour productivity in Britain is the low level of skill in the workforce compared with that of the major competitors . |
| 2 | This shows that one of the major factors that distinguishes the films of motorways and bends in roads from those of junctions is that they were rated as having less to see in them . |
| 3 | This has meant that one of the major firms of chartered accountants has been employed . |
| 4 | At the annual meeting , the annual meeting last year in the institute , it was obvious to me that one of the major concerns of people in this town was policing and police presence and I think the joint effort that we 've put forward , and I must mention as well since he 's , we 've worked very well together , the police liaison office has been running extremely well I feel , the number of calls have gone up since we started . |
| 5 | The multiplication of agencies as a means to greater bureaucratic efficiency may be objected to on the grounds that one of the major obstacles to the successful implementation of government programmes has been found to be the existence of numerous competing administrative bodies which so many programmes seem to involve because of overlapping policy fields and jurisdictions ( Gunn 1978 ) . |
| 6 | We discovered last month that one of the major challenges of keeping a marine aquarium is choosing fish which will live in harmony together and , where applicable those which will be compatible with the invertebrates sharing their aquarium . |
| 7 | Considering the nature of the ailment it will come as no surprise that one of the major causes is thought to be constipation and , again , the straining involved in evacuating a hard faecal mass . |
| 8 | Again , when the historian considers the available sources for the late Middle Ages , it is noteworthy that one of the major collections of narratives , the London City Chronicles , was in the vernacular , although some of the earlier city chroniclers had used Latin or Anglo-Norman . |
| 9 | Mr. Nicholas Bennett : Does my right Hon. Friend agree that one of the major ways in which unemployment has been reduced in Wales is through the Governments regional policy of re-locating Civil Service and other Government agency jobs to the regions and Wales ? |
| 10 | It is perhaps not surprising that two of the major varieties of aphasia are named after two nineteenth-century neurologists , Broca and Wernicke . |