Example sentences of "were major [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not surprisingly , there were major problems at the line-out throughout the match with Eales and McCall winning the lion 's share at the front and in the middle and at all the short lineouts . |
| 2 | However , Rico was himself arrested on Dec. 10 for allegedly inciting public disorder , by claiming in the press that there were major problems still unresolved in the Army , that he had known of the intended rebellion , and that he had made a mistake in not preventing it . |
| 3 | The complications , which occurred in all patients apart from two who achieved the protocol , could be overcome , and no early deaths were recorded in a high risk group of patients , but pain and bile leakage were major problems . |
| 4 | My Lord the started sum of money originally , sixty thousand pounds was the total loan and there were further overdraught facilities and and it 's the plaintiff 's case that without it it was simply not going to be manageable and as a result of that having thought carefully about erm , position it is his case that he rang Peter , told him that there were major problems in the financing of the deal and asked him if he could get him out of the contract because the finance he anticipated was no longer going to be available and it was his case that Peter advised him that there was no way out because contracts had been exchanged , er Mr was told very clearly that he was committed legally now to the deal and that he 'd better try and rearrange some finances since clearly they were moving towards er the completion date . |
| 5 | Some Scottish politicians were major stockholders or directors of the East India Company , and important patronage was attached to the office of director . |
| 6 | London 's evening paper was similar in lix score to a Swedish evening paper , but there were major differences in word and sentence scores . |
| 7 | There were major changes afoot in the nature of the war in the Middle East and , like it or not , the SAS was going to be placed under far firmer control . |
| 8 | Its main conclusions were that while there were major changes in capacity with age , in particular in mental capacity , which affected the employability of an individual , these could all be overcome to varying degrees by an alteration in the work environment . |
| 9 | There were major changes within the various invertebrate types , although these seldom caught the headlines . |
| 10 | The paper was , however , limited in scope , since it was felt that there were major changes in higher education ahead — the James Committee on Teacher Education was sitting , for example — and the items most prominent in the document were a proposal to reduce the amount of paper work for renewals of course approval , and the possibility of delegating authority for the registration of MPhil students . |
| 11 | Timber had been removed without nutrient replacement and there were major weed problems in the rice . |
| 12 | By the nineteenth century dearth and plague were tribulations of the past , but tuberculosis , typhus , typhoid and dysentery were major killers and the great cholera epidemics drew horrified attention to the need for urgent action to improve public health in the towns . |
| 13 | Obviously , the size of the user 's habit and the predisposition of the GP were major factors in this . |
| 14 | Recently , bubble-jet and laser printers have begun to be installed , where the former 's quietness and the latter 's high quality output were major factors . |
| 15 | The unresolved conflicts in the region were major preoccupations , specifically Senegal 's disputes with Mauritania and with Guinea-Bissau , and the civil war in Liberia — the latter forming the subject of a resolution which called for a cessation of hostilities and the holding of elections . |
| 16 | Both his father and grandfather ( Pope Paul III ) were major art patrons , a conditioning factor in the young Alessandro 's taste . |
| 17 | Those members who did manage to attend area sessions considered that learning from each other 's experiences and personal contact with regional officials were major benefits . |
| 18 | The Burgundian alliance was closely connected with English economic interests , because the Low Countries , which were the most economically advanced section of the Burgundian duchy , were major trading partners of England , particularly as a market for exports of raw wool . |
| 19 | Thus we find in the tradition of observational analysis ( which in Britain and America is often taken as sociology tout court ) a developing interest in cultural institutions at that point when , through actual social developments in the modern press , cinema and broadcasting , there were major institutions and their products which could be studied by already generally available methods . |
| 20 | Under the old Warsaw Pact policy of distributing military infrastructure , there were major imbalances ; most air force installations and planes were in the Czech Lands , for example , while training centres and tank depots were mainly in Slovakia . |
| 21 | Another old miner , a beautiful , gracious man with a graceful mind , but breathless with pneumoconiosis , showed me a list of disastrous explosions in the Yorkshire collieries in the thirties and early forties — there were major explosions nearly every year . |
| 22 | Berstein reinforced the belief that language and culture were major barriers in attracting working-class adults to education . |
| 23 | The two unique noncrystallographic twofold axes ( L 1 and L 2 which were major peaks in the self-rotation function ) are shown . |
| 24 | Diarrhoea and dysentery outbreaks were increasing and tuberculosis and hepatitis were major threats . |
| 25 | There is a good deal of evidence from these provinces to show that inland waterways were major thoroughfares ; it ranges from the idiosyncratic distribution of pottery and other hardware to discoveries of the boats used , including the great flat-bottomed lighters which plied the Rhine and its tributaries . |
| 26 | The wind speed and direction , and the cloud height and type were major hurdles to be overcome each hour . |
| 27 | There were major drawbacks in concentrating solely on a ‘ regulatory route ’ . |
| 28 | Families were major beneficiaries of the single payments system , which provided one-off payments as a matter of entitlement to claimants who qualified for help . |
| 29 | The doctors in poorer areas , in particular , were major beneficiaries of this arrangement , which gave them a secure income for the first time . |
| 30 | He never married , but lived with his housekeeper Lee , and his illegitimate children were major beneficiaries , Richard Napoleon Lee inheriting £400,000 , and three daughters sufficient to maintain them in gentility . |