Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] a major [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the same time as teacher education and the new colleges of higher education were becoming a major component of the CNAA 's repertoire of subjects and institutions , the Council and the NCDAD were coming closer together . |
| 2 | But the war was here the occasion for their collective expression , at a time when , with the threat of invasion passed , debates about the future shape of British society were becoming a major ingredient in political discussion . |
| 3 | The British Defence White Paper of 1958 laid down with surprising confidence the circumstances in which it would unleash nuclear weapons : ‘ It must be well understood that if Russia were to launch a major attack , even with conventional weapons only , the West would have to hit back with strategic nuclear weapons . ’ |
| 4 | More specifically it was in southern California , Reagan 's home territory , that political issues began to surface that were to play a major part in national politics in the years that followed . |
| 5 | We were initiating a major change in the teaching of English which would need great good will and understanding from all teachers . |
| 6 | They have a record going well back into the Cambrian , when it might be supposed that the chordates were undergoing a major diversification . |
| 7 | So quite clearly we were experiencing a major change in tourism patterns in this country . |
| 8 | By the mid-1970s the CNAA and its institutions were making a major contribution to legal education : a survey in 1976/77 showed that there were then thirty-two university law schools and twenty-two polytechnics and other colleges offering undergraduate law degree courses , the most recent being at the Polytechnics of North East London and Preston in 1975 , and the Polytechnic of Wales in 1977 . |
| 9 | It added that Serb sources said their opponents were making a major effort to capture Mount Caus , which dominates the area , but the Serbs were holding firm . |
| 10 | Well , as Hereford United were battling against on the pitch , behind the scenes West Mercia Police were mounting a major operation to control the crowd and prevent battles off the pitch between rival fans . |
| 11 | Meanwhile , the French were mounting a major attack on Boulogne . |
| 12 | Now scientific education and research were to become a major feature of America 's drive to supplant Europe as the centre of western culture . |
| 13 | While Japanese computers were hardly a factor in the boom years , they were to become a major force in the 1980s . |
| 14 | In 1988 , I was producing a major women 's conference at the Barbican and we needed a big bank of flowers . |
| 15 | The Civil Rights movement was given a major thrust forward by the ‘ Caledon squatting incident ’ ( 20 June 1968 ) . |
| 16 | Mature students also make up the Evening Programme , which was given a major boost at the end of the year , by winning the highest award in the UK under the UFC 's scheme to promote flexible teaching . |
| 17 | The Lombard Scheme was given a major boost in 1992 through the graduation of its first 31 MBAs . |
| 18 | Bureaucracy was becoming a major issue in contemporary China . |
| 19 | On Nov. 17 the UPP announced that it was to receive a major defector from the DLP on the following day . |
| 20 | It was announced that HCIMA was to lead a major industry initiative to consider a Quality assurance programme designed specifically for the industry . |
| 21 | Erm well why would you er get engaged in a , a contest erm with er the three warring factions , because you certainly would n't be able to con confine yourself to one , and since there 's no national interest as such , I know there have been many attempts to link er Bosnia with er peace in the world generally or with world order , in fact there is no threat er this is a civil war , strictly speaking , and th there 's no evidence that it would er sp spill over into a major war unless it was made a major war er by those er with the er forces that exist . |
| 22 | An important feature of these interactions , which was to play a major part in the new interactionism , was that we use stereotypical ‘ labels ’ to make sense of other people , based on cues or knowledge that we have about them . |
| 23 | Edmund of Lancaster , loyal to the end , was to play a major part in the Anglo-French diplomacy of the 1290s and died represent-ing his brother as lieutenant in Aquitaine at Bayonne on 5 June 1296 . |
| 24 | The Doctor , still mistaken for Pettulian , learns of a conspiracy against Nero in which the murdered lyre player was to play a major part . |
| 25 | During the tumultuous years that followed , Nottinghamshire was to play a major role in the bitter conflict . |
| 26 | William Coote , who was to play a major role in social purity up to the 1920s , went through a typical adolescent conversion experience in the 1860s and 1870s . |
| 27 | In such a policy , the social security system was to play a major role since ‘ the income provided by the scheme to persons who are sick , unemployed , injured or past work will almost invariably be spent to the full . ’ |
| 28 | To each of these was allocated a major sector of government activity for inquiry and comment . |
| 29 | Simultaneously but quite independently , the impact of linguistics , particularly through Chomsky 's effectiveness as an academic publicist , was giving a major boost to language studies . |
| 30 | I , I do n't know , I certainly would n't rely on just a sales brochure if I was making a major trans |