Example sentences of "is [adv] a major " in BNC.
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| 1 | Slum clearance , for example , is only a major problem in some areas . |
| 2 | The choice of method within deaf education is obviously a major one and the lack of positive research to inform the choice is an added problem . |
| 3 | There is obviously a major point of policy involved in this matter , so let us look at the organisation and training of these people who play such an important part in the safety of the travelling public . |
| 4 | The trouble is , if you 're not hitting the balls anywhere near the pockets , dust is scarcely a major factor one way or the other . |
| 5 | The doctrine of ministerial responsibility is thus a major explanation for the isolation of Whitehall departments , for their inward-looking nature and for their constant emphasis on keeping within the policy bounds set from above . |
| 6 | The provision of English language teaching is already a major source of revenue to Britain , from the language schools that yearly bring literally millions of foreign students to the country , to the British Council exports of English language and culture across the world and the institutional supports for such practices provided by publishing houses , printers and writers of textbooks . |
| 7 | Longman Hong Kong , which is already a major player in education publishing for schools and higher education , will also publish for business , professional and medical markets , and for children . |
| 8 | The harvest service is usually a major event in the calendar for most schools with parents contributing produce for an attractive display . |
| 9 | Right , climate is always a major consideration . |
| 10 | This general condition of asymmetry can be examined in three major areas of tension , conflict and struggle , within which the fact of asymmetry is always a major element . |
| 11 | Solidarity with Southern nationalists is still a major Northern nationalist perception , despite the fact that they view their Southern compatriots at best with indifference and at worst as traitors who sold them out to the loyalists . |
| 12 | Second , age discrimination is still a major problem in the workplace . |
| 13 | AND two thirds complain that underfunding is still a major problem . |
| 14 | The potential is underlined by the fact that the US market , with just twice the population of Japan , absorbed about 10m personal computers last year , against the modest 2.2m sold in Japan — although the comparison is distorted by the fact that the dedicated word processor is still a major force in the Japanese market , and 2.24m Japanese-language word processors produced in 1992 according to the Electronics Industry Association of Japan , which means that combined sales for word processors and personal computers are much closer to parity with the US market . |
| 15 | While substance abuse has changed in both scope and nature , one of the other problems that vexed Howard ( 1792 : 124 , 128 , 216 ) is still a major , and similar , difficulty for the TDC authorities . |
| 16 | The region is still a major producer of tin . |
| 17 | It is still a major world religion , adhered to by millions , and has affected the cultures of Europe , Russia , the United States , Canada , Australia and New Zealand , many societies in Latin America , and in sub-Saharan Africa . |
| 18 | Conformity with the group is still a major objective . |
| 19 | Even if we accept , as we should , that Thucydides is right about the ‘ truest cause ’ ( and in the passage last quoted he comes near to running together true cause and alleged reasons , so we should not try to separate them too sharply ) , there is still a major problem : what weight should we give to the various instances of encroachment ? |
| 20 | Secondly , the strength of the Catholic Church is still a major factor in the failure of Marxism to make any significant inroads into the Latin American masses , particularly the peasantry . |
| 21 | It 's all looking much healthier now but time is still a major factor . |
| 22 | In some industries and markets , it is still a major factor in market economics . |
| 23 | In the industrialized countries political problems have a different character , for although , as I have shown , economic growth is still a major objective , this does not involve the kind of social upheaval which accompanies rapid industrialization and the transition from agricultural to industrial production ; and it is pursued in a context of other political concerns . |
| 24 | The company was a founder member and is still a major supporter of the Portman Group in the UK and of similar organisations which combat alcohol abuse worldwide , such as the Century Council in the USA and DIFA-Forum in Germany . |
| 25 | Air pollution is still a major cause , he said : " Exposure to sulphur dioxide and nitrogen dioxides has fallen dramatically in the past decade , but forest ecosystems react only gradually . " |
| 26 | Trade gap is still a major problem |
| 27 | Runner-up David Broome — at 51 proving he is still a major world threat — could only get to within just under three seconds of Bost 's time . |
| 28 | There are no reliable estimates of the past or present size of its populations , or of the rates of losses , although fishing is clearly a major cause of accidental death . |
| 29 | Accurate surveying of contexts in three dimensions is clearly a major part of the excavation process . |
| 30 | The emergence of the information-processing capacity of the human brain is clearly a major transcendence in this sense . |