Example sentences of "now [verb] a major [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Foreign relations now became a major factor in the final fall of the Tokugawa , whose impotence to resist foreign demands became apparent to all . |
| 3 | Electricity , indeed , now became a major loophole in the rationing system by which common sacrifices were imposed on all . |
| 4 | Souness will now conduct a major inquest into Liverpool 's defensive shambles . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The Enterprise Lecture is now becoming a major event in the University calendar and this year 's lecture was an outstanding success . |
| 7 | Even a disastrous industrial slump would not now bring a major return to the countryside or substantial growth in the relative importance of agriculture . |
| 8 | This will now become a major growth area for research . |
| 9 | It is almost impossible now to service a major client without such internal specialists at your elbow to help . |
| 10 | In fact , such series have been building up around us gradually , until they have now become a major part of the market . |
| 11 | The financing of social services has now become a major issue of electoral concern . |
| 12 | This had now become a major programme that would need external funding . |
| 13 | For Napoleon III the defeat was doubly fatal in that it not only revealed France 's weakness but also underlined the extent to which Prussia had now become a major power . |
| 14 | In the amount of business that they do , and the number of services they provide , the library suppliers now play a major role — some would say , too large — in the development of library services . |
| 15 | These life peers now play a major role in the day-to-day work of the Lords ; indeed , their presence is essential for the great majority of hereditary peers rarely , if ever , attend . |
| 16 | The paper had now taken a major turning . |
| 17 | As the result of the demolition of the colleges of education in the 1970s and the mergers that took place between a number of colleges and polytechnics , the latter now have a major stake in teacher education . |