Example sentences of "become a major [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bureaucracy was becoming a major issue in contemporary China . |
| 2 | The Enterprise Lecture is now becoming a major event in the University calendar and this year 's lecture was an outstanding success . |
| 3 | This once mighty state was now again becoming a major power in Europe , thanks less to its nominal ruler , Philip V , than to his prime minister , Cardinal Giulio Alberoni . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In addition , he pointed to the influence of union leadership which can have a decisive impact on union membership growth via the policies and organising techniques which are adopted , and governmental encouragement which may also become a major factor in promoting union growth . |
| 6 | Such a double-fisted attack has so far posed no extraordinary problems for librarians , but a series of events over the last few years illustrates that the issue of the law and censorship could become a major problem in the management of libraries . |
| 7 | This in turn becomes easily transposed onto their owner , and can become a major problem in later life . |
| 8 | A SALT-LOVING bacterium may become a major ally in the effort to develop new drugs . |
| 9 | They found this to be so worthwhile that , on their return from exile , synagogue worship continued and became a major influence in religious life . |
| 10 | Foreign relations now became a major factor in the final fall of the Tokugawa , whose impotence to resist foreign demands became apparent to all . |
| 11 | Situated at a crossroads for the colonization , trade and post routes , with good arable , pasture and fishing facilities , Irkutsk became a major centre in which the various strands of Russia 's colonization came together . |
| 12 | The fate of a watchman became a major element in burgh politics in this district , for although Captain James Cunningham was clearly sympathetic to John Main on personal grounds , there was more at stake than the solvency of a single family . |
| 13 | Problematisation of ‘ images of women ’ criticism and its counterpart in realist documentary film-making became a major theme in feminist film criticism of the mid to late 1970s , on the grounds that realism created an illusory notion of transparency which could only reaffirm , not undermine dominant common-sense notions of the subject as ( bourgeois ) individual and of reality as fixed , accessible and ‘ there ’ . |
| 14 | Neville Chamberlain , for instance , expressed fears that British and imperial interests might suffer if the United States became a major player in world affairs . |
| 15 | In the early 1960s the king became a major actor in the events that led to independence for his country in 1968 . |
| 16 | Electricity , indeed , now became a major loophole in the rationing system by which common sacrifices were imposed on all . |
| 17 | Peat cutting became a major industry in the Lancashire mosses in the nineteenth century , and on maps of Wicken Fen and Hatfield Chase , you will find ‘ Poor Piece ’ , which was where the local cottagers could cut peat for themselves , subject to regulations prescribing a limited season for peat cutting and insisting that a man may extract as much peat as he can , provided he does not employ assistance . |
| 18 | As most readers will know already , OPEC became a major force in the international economy , and in banking and finance during 1973–74 when it raised the price of a barrel of oil from $3.00 to $11.65 . |
| 19 | He tossed out Lee Chapman , who then became a major force in the Leeds team that won the League last season . |
| 20 | Derivatives of this concept have become a major symbol in modern art . |
| 21 | What 's really moved me over the last three or four years , as AIDS has become a major threat in this country , and especially since spring 1985 with the rising public hysteria about it , is that it 's brought out tremendous reserves of strength in lesbians and gay men which show the importance of the achievements of the previous fifteen years . |
| 22 | It 's antics like this which have become a major problem in towns and cities up and down the country in recent years , generating fear on estates like Blackbird Leys in Oxford . |
| 23 | Time has moved on since you first started dealing with someone who has become a major influence in your life and now you need to re-work your thoughts and opinions . |
| 24 | Because of changes in society in general , and in the student and academic population in particular , bias has become a major issue in academic writing ( reflected for example in current arguments over " political correctness " ) . |
| 25 | And it has meant that product design has become a major factor in product management . |
| 26 | of Britain 's exports — it has become a major factor in world trade and international power-broking . |
| 27 | The dependence of the individual on the group and on certain individuals within it has become a major theme in any analysis of Japanese society . |
| 28 | Television , which had become a major force in American political life , was essential to Reagan 's success in obtaining the Republican nomination in 1980 . |
| 29 | These departments have become a major force in local government and are among the main spending departments after education . |
| 30 | Two suitably romantic leaders , who escaped in time , now emerged , the 26-year-old third Earl of Derwentwater , a grandson of Charles II by one of his mistresses , who had been brought up with the Old Pretender at St Germain , and become a major landowner in Westmorland , and Thomas Forster , an MP for Northumberland . |