Example sentences of "be that [art] major [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If there is another rights issue , a possible result may be that the major shareholders will decide to take out the minority interest . |
| 2 | It may be that the major mischief at which the Act was directed was the mischief which has become endemic of persons using one computer to hack into another computer . |
| 3 | The conclusion must be that the major issues of military commitment outside Libyan frontiers were not generally discussed in public assemblies of any kind , unless it suited the Revolutionary Command Council . |
| 4 | The answer , obviously enough , is that a major goal of The Lord of the Rings was to dramatise that ‘ theory of courage ’ which Tolkien had said in his British Academy lecture was the ‘ great contribution ’ to humanity of the old literature of the North . |
| 5 | And is that , does that , is that ma , is that a major problem , has that been through since |
| 6 | Perhaps a telling comment on this is that a major reason for the recruitment of top , superannuated civil servants into business is that they know their way round the political labyrinth of Whitehall . |
| 7 | A central part of my argument , then , is that a major step can be made simply by relocating the issue of child abuse into the mainstream of child care research , policy and practice . |
| 8 | The notion is that a major innovation , or set of innovations , at a particular point in time is exploited by the ability and initiative of entrepreneurs to create new opportunities for profit . |
| 9 | The government 's position is that the major decisions on countering global warming will have to wait on international agreement at the 1992 UN conference on the environment , which would project them beyond the present government . |
| 10 | In short , what the figures confirm is that the major achievement of building societies is to take funds from surplus units within the personal sector , to supplement these with lending from other sectors and to lend to personal sector units who wished to go into deficit to buy houses . |
| 11 | The implication of their arguments was that a major restructuring was taking place . |
| 12 | They were quite happy with the job Red Rhino were doing ; their basic view was that a major deal would be better , but not essential . |