Example sentences of "[adv] the major " in BNC.
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| 1 | Presumably the major mediating factors are the teachers , and the school , concerned . |
| 2 | despite television being overwhelmingly the major source of news for the general public , audience perceptions of the news and as to what the strike was all about differed considerably . |
| 3 | That is , he contends , ‘ to get across clearly , at all levels of Scottish society , the detailed ways in which our scheme would provide better government than the new ( stock-taking ) proposals from Westminster , and would tackle more effectively the major ‘ bread and butter ’ issues which trouble our people ’ . |
| 4 | His chief advisers were to be Edwin Meese , James Baker and Michael Deaver and Meese , as Counsellor to the President , took on the major responsibility for selecting and indoctrinating political appointees . |
| 5 | ’ I wish someone else would take on the major record companies , but nobody does , and I 'm not prepared to sit back and watch them stifle British music . |
| 6 | Employment patterns , which followed the routes of enforced segregation in favour of protestants — for they controlled the greater part of the job market and especially the major industrial enterprises and the entire government sector of civil servants and police — were even reinforced by the system of job references provided by the parish priests and catholic notables . |
| 7 | It can be seen that problems of this kind are inseparable from major developments in cultural means of production , and especially the major reproductive technologies . |
| 8 | It was about the difficulties experienced by the writer , especially the major writer , in prevailing economic conditions , and I took as examples Eliot , Pound and Herbert Read . |
| 9 | Naturally the major proviso for such accord would be that the resources spent on the asylums be entirely redistributed within modernized health services . |
| 10 | You may ask me then : ‘ Why do n't we do just that ? why has there been this passionate search for some other method of preventing the fall in the value of money or controlling the fall in the value of money , if a cause and perhaps the major cause is undisputed , assessable and obvious ? ’ |
| 11 | This resonance of passages which can be read with different levels of suggestion at once , with ‘ myth ’ and ‘ low mimesis ’ and ‘ irony ’ all embedded deeply in ‘ romance ’ , is perhaps the major and least-considered cause for the appeal of The Lord of the Rings . |
| 12 | Perhaps the major requirement for change on Switchboard is a combination of the overt needs of the callers , and the needs of a group of self-interested and highly-motivated volunteers who find a reason to stay in the organization . |
| 13 | perhaps the major significance of the Council of Europe rests in the fact that it was the first European organisation with a political flavour . |
| 14 | Neglect of incentives and of light industry in preference to ‘ priority ’ investment is perhaps the major obstacle to securing a return on this investment . |
| 15 | Perhaps the major companies should use the independent distributors for their low volume items ; they could attach a ‘ special import ’ sticker and charge a few dollar more . |
| 16 | On the contrary , as Donaldson argued , perhaps the major task for the child during the school years is to learn to handle information that is decontextualized . |
| 17 | Perhaps the major influence in the development of a distinctive office culture , and for that reason an important contributor to a field officer 's learning , is the area supervisor . |
| 18 | The RMCs were seen as perhaps the major vehicle for such provision and it is encouraging that they are beginning to make a substantial contribution by developing a wide range of in-service short courses and workshops , which in some areas are showing signs of laying the foundation for longer qualification-based programmes . |
| 19 | Perhaps the major problem in devising a special classification scheme is the definition of the subject area to be covered . |
| 20 | Perhaps the major problem in choosing critical texts to read and refer to is whether or not to use specialised student textbooks . |
| 21 | Taken together these observations highlight what is in my view perhaps the major challenge facing research libraries in the 1990s , namely to develop a model whereby consultation of our cultural inheritance manifest in print and manuscript form can be beneficially combined , and handled conjunctly with , access to electronic information in a wide variety of forms . |
| 22 | The very high turnover of caregivers in institutional settings is perhaps the major way in which they differ from ordinary family life . |
| 23 | Apart from issues of principle , perhaps the major practical objection put forward against charges is that it would lead to an increase in evasion ; the incentive to undertake development without applying for planning permission would rise in line with the rate of charge ( particularly for ‘ householder ’ types of development ) . |
| 24 | Yes , that certainly is perhaps the major comment to come from the conservation exercise . |
| 25 | This highlights perhaps the major difference between BR and RENFE in the way the machinery is used and the culture of industrial relations that has grown up around it : the handling of individual grievances . |
| 26 | This is obviously the major book here , but owing to its hardback success it may well be a little disappointing as a paperback . |
| 27 | By the end of the 1980s all the major governments in the West were carrying out reviews and costing of environmental policies . |
| 28 | By the late 1750s all the major potteries : Chelsea , Bristol , Bow , Lowestoft , Derby , Longton Hall and Liverpool — were manufacturing and selling hundreds of porcelain and earthenware sauce-boats . |
| 29 | For it to do so the major unions would have to relinquish much of their power . |
| 30 | It was not merely the major items of patronage , such as appointment to the Court of Session , which occasioned deathwatch reports to politicians from the jobhunters , for the health of local officers was as much a matter of careful calculation , and the first to apply was the most likely to be successful when a vacancy occurred . |