Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] a major [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Foster 's recall for the second Cornhill Test at Lord 's not only represents a major gamble , however , but also underlines a desperate shortage of fit and in-form pace candidates . |
| 2 | I am particularly pleased to see present my hon. Friend the Member for Windsor and Maidenhead ( Sir A. Glyn ) , who obviously has a major interest in this matter . |
| 3 | The international system not only has a major division between communist and capitalist states but also deeper cultural divisions between what are usually termed the First and Third worlds . |
| 4 | It was said of Brent under the Labour council : ’ If you have a council that is as monumentally incompetent as Brent 's has been in the last few years , it rightly gets a major vote of censure from the public . ’ |
| 5 | As the University 's commercial arm , UnivEd not only makes a major contribution to the University 's finances , but also enhances Edinburgh 's position as an international centre of excellence in teaching and research . |
| 6 | He said : ‘ Fortex already has a major presence in the UK through Towers and Co , which is the company 's official importer of chilled and frozen lamb into the UK . |
| 7 | It thus becomes a major provider of information on the industry as a whole , so that the analyst has much material for study . |
| 8 | It thus becomes a major constituent of the waste product , faeces . |
| 9 | The Commons , by its elected status , associates the people with the government , and thus makes a major contribution to legitimacy , a concept essential for government by consent . |
| 10 | It is interesting that recent research has come to the same conclusions as Golding as to the usefulness of such modes of thought : The deployment of simile , underlexicalisation and metaphor thus makes a major contribution to the exposition of the novel 's thematic concern with the linked development of thought and language in the people . |
| 11 | The Cartesian cogito — cogito ergo sum ( I think therefore I am ) — conventionally if somewhat simplistically marks a major point in the emergence of Western individualism . |
| 12 | This new product fills effectively closes a major gap in Microsoft 's Windows product line up , which until now has n't featured a top-end DBMS . |
| 13 | It also represents a major challenge to educationalists : not only should children be taught to use information technology , a subject that has emerged suddenly from nowhere with no teaching tradition , but all disciplines could profit from incorporating this new technology into their teaching practice . |
| 14 | The space between the fly sheet and inner dome also plays a major part in eradicating condensation , a problem which we have all encountered from time to time . |
| 15 | The design of a layout is vitally important , but the equipment you use also plays a major role . |
| 16 | That shows that , despite what we are told by Conservatives , the social charter is not solely about salaries and general working conditions on the shop floor but also plays a major role in the environment . |
| 17 | First the company has to sell the service to a young market , and it also has a major competitor : Thorn EMI , whose Hospitelli service currently has installations in 30 hospitals . |
| 18 | When it comes down to it , common sense also has a major part to play . |
| 19 | Michael Cohen also plans a major exhibition — 15 or 20 Nanking pieces , silver bars from the Dutch bullion ship Bredenhof , auctioned in 1986 , anything he can get from Vung Tau and , he hopes , a few pieces from the first Hatcher junk , which are the earliest of them all . |
| 20 | Moving to a residential home or nursing home can have many advantages — such as more company and a feeling of security — but it also means a major change in someone 's way of life . |
| 21 | In London an area forming an arc east of Charing Cross , from Lambeth through Docklands to Islington now represents a major concentration of deprivation , the dominant characteristics being high rates of unemployment ( racially concentrated ) , high population density , a poverty of housing stock and a disadvantaged environment for a population with its distinctive sub-class of welfare dependents . |
| 22 | This means that migration now has a major impact on population change , even though Ravenstein 's first law is still seen to hold , since Brant ( 1984 ) has shown that of the 9 per cent of people who moved between 1980 and 1981 , a massive 70 per cent moved less than six miles . |
| 23 | Many jobs such as replacing a balance beam can be done with the lock still in use : replacing or repairing a gate often requires a major stoppage . |
| 24 | Men 's unfaithfulness is rarely made the focus of a condemnatory press report during the trial , while women 's infidelity as the cause of trouble often becomes a major theme . |
| 25 | So I do n't think in terms of paralinguistics anybody here has a major problem . |
| 26 | It then takes a major blow to fracture it . |
| 27 | The incompatibility of justice and correction as penal objectives has long been , and still remains , the major unsolved problem of penal practice and consequently remains a major issue for the correctionalist stance in criminology . |
| 28 | Random sampling , as a method , however faces a major problem . |
| 29 | Indeed , the application actually represents a major planning loss , for the reasons outlined above . |
| 30 | This case therefore represents a major inroad on the exclusionary rule : see also Owens Bank Ltd. v. Bracco [ 1992 ] 2 A.C. 443 . |