Example sentences of "[is] [adj] to [be] a major " in BNC.
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| 1 | With its strong commitment to economic and social development , combined with bilingual education and the promotion of Gaelic culture , it is likely to be a major force in the future . |
| 2 | Deforestation in the Philippines , especially that for agricultural development , is likely to be a major handicap to its economic development unless appropriate land-use strategies are implemented . |
| 3 | Together with the urgent need for skills flexibility at all levels in the workforce in the 1990s , the philosophy of continual retraining , the enhancing and refreshing of existing skills and the establishing of new ones , is likely to be a major theme of European training initiatives throughout the 1990s and well into the next century . |
| 4 | However , lack of funding which will force more hard choices between competing ‘ good causes ’ is likely to be a major preoccupation of the 1990s , pitting disciplines against each other , libraries against other information providers , clashes with senior administrators , and so on . |
| 5 | Remember that class relationships are part of a wider structure of systems of domination , and that the tension between empowerment and surveillance inherent in information technology is likely to be a major focus for studies of class structure in the 1990s ( Morris 1979 ; Elliot and McCrone 1982 ) . |
| 6 | But given the limitations on control devices discussed above , given the fragmentation of the state and the diversity of objectives , political bargaining or ‘ exchange ’ between enterprise actors and the state is likely to be a major method of transmitting state objectives to the public enterprise . |
| 7 | But I am afraid , since then , the Soviet Union has begun to face disintegration and is unlikely to be a major player . |
| 8 | These findings suggest that lowered basal UOS tone is unlikely to be a major cause of oesophagopharyngeal reflux , but that transient relaxations of the UOS in response to distention are a more probable cause of such reflux . |
| 9 | If the long-term use of information resources by individuals beyond the corporation is included as a benefit at all , it is unlikely to be a major priority for funding and may even be viewed with caution . |