Example sentences of "[vb -s] [num] [prep] [art] major [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amanda Nobbs of CNP says one of the major problems stems from the government subsidies offered to wind farm developers . |
| 2 | The Lucas ( 1973 ) paper tests one of the major predictions of the rational expectations model developed in chapter 4 and summarized in equation ( 6.1 ) by using cross-country data ; the Barro studies test the other major prediction of that model using data from a single country . |
| 3 | Yet the Treaty of Rome itself describes one of the major aims of company law harmonisation as being to make safeguards for shareholders and third parties ‘ equivalent throughout the Community ’ ( Article 54(3) ( g ) ) |
| 4 | Han and G.R.M. , unpublished data ) , it is likely that FGF-4 serves as an endogenous signal for mesenchyme proliferation and thus performs one of the major functions of the AER in vivo . |
| 5 | The budget still represents one of the major sources of executive-assembly controversy . |
| 6 | This pattern of land distribution reflects such great disparities and brings about so much poverty that it represents one of the major problems that agrarian reform has addressed . |
| 7 | It involves very large client groups ( elderly , physically disabled , and mentally ill people as well as people with learning disabilities ) ; constitutes one of the major tasks of the personal social services ; and it is an arena in which hopes and aspirations have consistently been disappointed ( Walker , 1982 ; Webb and Wistow , 1986 ; Martin , 1987 ) . |
| 8 | A more effective matching of workers and jobs constitutes one of the major challenges facing central government in the final years of the twentieth century . |
| 9 | The association between age , adaptability , and psychological theory remains one of the major factors that disables older people , particularly within a society in which ‘ change ’ and ‘ progress ’ are increasingly important . |
| 10 | The persistence of severe and deep-rooted regional imbalances in regional economic and social well-being remains one of the major issues that will shape future public policy developments and their impact in the 1990's . |
| 11 | There are serious problems with this subject match thesis as we shall see , but the subject match initiative undoubtedly provides one of the major thrusts behind the intended improvement of teaching quality . |
| 12 | This definition suggests two of the major deficiencies of the international legal system — firstly that there is little one country can do if another fails to abide by the rules , and this is made worse by the second factor , the lack of a comprehensive single body of law that could form the basis of a truly coherent system . |