Example sentences of "[adj] to have a major [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 You are about to set out on an interesting and formative experience , something that is likely to have a major impact on your life .
2 In the areas of social policy , a separate protocol to which all the member states except the United Kingdom are signatories , is likely to have a major impact on companies operating in the Community , including a probable ‘ trickle-on ’ effect to companies based in the United Kingdom .
3 It has been suggested that the move to a loans-based higher educational system will provide small firms with a supply of labour , as in the US , but this is unlikely to have a major effect other than on the demand for temporary workers .
4 It carried out a survey of the noise and vibration likely to be caused by the construction of the project and concluded that noise and vibration would be ’ unlikely to have a major impact . ’
5 It should therefore be of little surprise if the expenditure on inner city regeneration turns out to be a risible fraction of that necessary to have a major impact on the level of urban immiseration as long as it can still produce the sort of photogenic spectacle so clearly embodied in Birmingham 's super-prix or Phoenix 's grand prix , Boston and New York 's marathons or Liverpool 's Tall Ships Race .
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