Example sentences of "[noun pl] have a major [noun] " in BNC.

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1 As we have seen , this applies to industrial relations issues such as pay determination , and to matters having a major bearing on industrial relations , such as restructuring and rationalization plans .
2 Parents have a major role to play in getting the message home .
3 Several studies have suggested that health visitors have a major role to play in screening and assessing the elderly ( Luker 1988 ; Vetter et al .
4 For example , in the 1890s new office machines such as typewriters and calculating machines had a major impact on the day-to-day operations of businesses .
5 While the Action Teams have a major role to play in implementing local initiatives , they are not working on their own , but rather as part of the overall Making Belfast Work strategy .
6 It is obvious that wound dressings have a major influence on the micro-environment of the wound .
7 During the period of dominance he identifies three distinct ways through which psychodynamic theories had a major influence on social work .
8 Although techniques such as infrared spectroscopy and atomic spectroscopy are alien in the world of art it is becoming increasingly accepted that scientists have a major role to play in art research .
9 In the past the harvesting of seabirds for food and the predation by animals introduced by humans had a major impact on seabird colonies .
10 It also pointed out that all these proposals had a major weakness in that none of them gave consideration to the university sector , which because of its involvement in the provision and validation of teacher-training courses and because of the different , smaller scale of Welsh provision , made its contribution more critical .
11 The regional authorities have a major role in resource and curriculum planning for the school and community education sectors .
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