Example sentences of "have be a major [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Moreover , in a study by Smith-Goosne and Bennett ( 1988 ) , it was suggested that there has been a major rise in work-effort in recent years . |
2 | For several years there has been a major breed improvement and production scheme in France to increase its genetic merit and select the best breeding stock from a nucleus of 45,000 recorded cows . |
3 | ‘ My fitness has been a major talking point in Glasgow . |
4 | YTS has been a major provider of new opportunities and through its funding mechanism , its special assessment and age exclusions , and its provision of special equipment and services , it has shown itself to be responsive to the needs of very many young people with disabilities and learning difficulties . |
5 | He could not argue , looking at Imperial , that there has been a major brain drain of senior staff . |
6 | So that there has been a major breakthrough in the appreciation of English music , but it 's not quite , it 's still on the periphery , I think , of erm music as far as the Germans , the French and the Italians are concerned . |
7 | In fact , although over the past forty years there has been a major transformation of the Yugoslav economy , inter-regional differences are at least as great as they were before , and in some cases even greater . |
8 | I know that such congestion has been a major concern among hon. Members . |
9 | This is not just of interest to professional politicians or academic specialists ; local government has become front-page news , its leading politicians such as Ken Livingstone , David Blunkett and Derek Hatton have been catapulted to national fame and the local-central government conflict detailed in Chapter 4 has been a major issue in three successive general elections . |
10 | Not being covered by state-run health insurance has been a major worry because ‘ sometimes I get very sick and I ca n't find the money to go to the doctor , ’ says Rita . |
11 | Meanwhile he says todays news has been a major setback in his own recovery . |
12 | ‘ Alaska has a lot fewer , but larger , assets than XEU but there has been a major reorganisation there , ’ he says . |
13 | There has been a major increase over the last year in the number of disqualification proceedings taken out against directors , according to the Insolvency Service . |
14 | Roger Henderson , QC , the Bar 's public affairs spokesman , warned that the words used in the White Paper were open to different interpretations , but said : ‘ Lord Donaldson has plainly interpreted the White Paper on the basis that there has been a major change from the Green Paper . ’ |
15 | In the twentieth century , however , there has been a major change . |
16 | Nonetheless given all the complexity of the above , and consequent disagreements over dates and magnitudes , there has been a major change in the importance of manufacturing within the UK economy . |
17 | Set up in 1983 under the Finance Act , the BES has been a major facilitator of the channelling of funds to businesses ( Peat Marwick 1986 ) , many of which would apparently not have been able to raise capital without the help of the BES , although it was also reported that very little of the funds were provided for seedcorn businesses . |
18 | And , least definably , there is the cultural nationalism , the concept of ‘ Englishness ’ that , from the beginning , has been a major element in the subject . |
19 | The fact that these efforts go unrecognised has been a major element in the ‘ failure ’ labels attached to many deaf schoolchildren . |
20 | Japanese society has evolved singular features , which must be understood in the context of a very particular historical development , in which a profound sense of uniqueness , separateness and isolation has been a major element . |
21 | ‘ He has jolted me into new experiences , obliging me to reconsider old questions about good and bad , beautiful and ugly , vulgar and elite , ’ and ‘ has been a major innovator in exploring new visual sources , new media , new thresholds of propriety ’ . |
22 | David Hill , head of Sky Sports believes former Scottish star Gray has been a major signing . |
23 | A : Unfortunately there has been a major problem with overbooking among Cypriot hoteliers . |
24 | This has been a major problem in Kent , Essex , Suffolk , and Norfolk , and most notoriously at Halvergate , where there have also been acidity problems , causing some farmers to have to jet their drains every year . |
25 | This may not be obvious if there has been a major problem and a solution has evaded many attempts to reach it . |
26 | In Manchester there has been a major development of a Sexual Assault Referral Centre , jointly funded by the police and hospital authorities . |
27 | This has been a major platform of government economic policy . |
28 | Held at the Stadium Youth and Community Centre in the Shankill , the crime-busting project has been a major success to date — with eight out of 11 young people getting jobs . |
29 | This palmtop , self-contained CD-ROM reader , selling for Y58,000 ( about £250 ) , has been a major success . |
30 | You will no doubt be familiar with the Tesco Healthy Eating campaign which started in 1985 and has been a major success . |