Example sentences of "[be] a major " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , because we 're a major player in , in grain markets and most other markets , the European Community , increasing its supply on the world market will have a non-trivial effect on price . |
| 2 | We have a specialist eye unit but also the specialists work very closely with the plastic surgeons and we 're a major regional centre for operations on the head and neck |
| 3 | I am a major shareholder , if you remember . |
| 4 | This has been a major demand by the National Licensed Victuallers Association , who hailed the decision as a victory for their campaign . |
| 5 | It has been a major political and cultural force for a hundred years . |
| 6 | And , least definably , there is the cultural nationalism , the concept of ‘ Englishness ’ that , from the beginning , has been a major element in the subject . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | He personified the pre-war amateur at his peak , a kindly engaging man who was well placed to have been a major influence in the game had he been of a more forceful character . |
| 9 | The Washington attorney was a close friend and adviser to Guinness 's former chairman , Ernest Saunders , and has been a major target of the SFO 's investigation of the corporate scandal . |
| 10 | By 1979 , however , the survey found that there had been a major shift in support for privatization and public opinion remained in favour of further privatization in 1983 , and probably reflected a positive response to the Thatcher policies . |
| 11 | MacDonald also had condemned the Lloyd George coalition as corrupt and unprincipled and had been a major beneficiary of its fall . |
| 12 | A third factor is that there has not been a major epidemic in Britain for 20 years . |
| 13 | Produced in many parts of the Mediterranean , the oil has been a major trading commodity throughout history , just as it is today . |
| 14 | The application of computer technology in the excavation process itself has been a major area of growth over the last decade . |
| 15 | Weed control must have been a major problem for a one pass cultivation system before the development of herbicides , and the extra weight of the rotor unit and the engine must have made the plough difficult to handle at the headlands . |
| 16 | Given that Paisley 's ability to predict political events had always been a major part of his public image , one would have expected the electorate to turn against him , especially when he had committed his personal prestige to the extent of offering to resign if the strike did not change British policy . |
| 17 | Charles Haddon Spurgeon had been a major force in English religious life for almost forty years when he died in 1892 . |
| 18 | A : Unfortunately there has been a major problem with overbooking among Cypriot hoteliers . |
| 19 | ‘ From a planning point of view it would not have been a major worry , although only the force staging the original tie could police the second replay because all the liaison work for the first match would have been done . |
| 20 | This Directive has been a major source of conflict between the UK and the European Commission . |
| 21 | It had been a major error of judgement on the part of Lenin and the Bolshevik leadership , disregarding Lenin 's earlier warnings that it could not be assumed in any country that class issues would automatically supersede national ones . |
| 22 | This has been a major platform of government economic policy . |
| 23 | Had the crowd not been prepared to accept the directions of the stewards at Carlisle Square and had they made an attempt to follow the original route , there would have been a major clash with the RUC and the loyalists and large-scale violence . |
| 24 | In the meantime there had been a major change in the political landscape of Derry , with the announcement on 22 November of the imminent abolition of Londonderry Corporation and the appointment of a Development Commission to run the city 's affairs . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | To me , a band with the profile of The Wedding Present , for Shaun to leave under the circumstances he did , it should have actually been a major story , ’ he says . |
| 27 | Just as Japan , a country dependent for 60% of its energy on oil , was a major sufferer when prices doubled in the second oil shock of 1979 , so it has been a major beneficiary of the subsequent fall in crude prices . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Compensatory payments have without doubt been a major stimulus to increasing stocking levels on existing land ( including woodlands ) and to agriculturally improve land to provide a greater stocking potential . |
| 30 | THE Restoration and maintenance of the village green and its stream had been a major project for the year , it was noted at the Old Alresford Parish Council 's recent annual general meeting in the Christy Hall . |