Example sentences of "was a major [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It also inspires tremendous loyalty and a voluntary support squadron led by Air Commodore Dick Bogg was a major feature of today 's parade . |
| 2 | In Southampton it is more than twenty years since we learned that there was a major settlement of foreign merchants quite separate from the walled town ; and Hamwih seemed for a time a town apart from others in Britain — though evidently related to the great semi-urban sprawl which has been excavated at Duurstede near Utrecht . |
| 3 | For three hundred years , until around 1934 , Faversham was a major centre of gunpowder manufacture , and one of the former factories , Chart Mills , was saved from demolition in recent years by the Faversham Society , when the area in which it stands was being cleared for a new housing estate . |
| 4 | In towns such as Dundee , which was a major centre of women 's employment in the jute industry , prostitution was almost unknown . |
| 5 | The army was a major part of Knyvet 's life . |
| 6 | It might have made for easier dealings with superiors and a better example for juniors , but then it was a major part of her sexual thrall over him . |
| 7 | The 1935 general election was a disappointment and it was a major part of Cripps 's case for the Labour Left that the election due in 1940 would not lead to a Labour victory either . |
| 8 | Investment in the process change was a major component of the overall Solaris development budget . |
| 9 | who was a major customer of T N T , Express unfortunately , erm , it 's a promotion company . |
| 10 | They were used to store the very large volume of offerings and tribute that came in from the townspeople and from the people living in the surrounding countryside ; administrating the inflow and redistribution of this temple tribute was a major function of the Minoan temple . |
| 11 | Changing a magazine in mid-air was a major act of skill and daring , which involved climbing half out of the cockpit while flying the plane with one 's knees clamped on the joystick ; all the time with the enemy possibly circling for the kill . |
| 12 | The firm prospered markedly during the wars of 1689–1713 when Crowley was a major supplier of ironware to the navy . |
| 13 | This was a major objective of burial societies and other forms of insurance ; irreplaceable possessions were often pawned or sold to pay for a funeral . |
| 14 | The translation of bifocal vision to design upon a canvas was a major concern of Cézanne . |
| 15 | The danger of a " spill-over " from the Bougainville conflict in Papua New Guinea ( PNG ) was a major concern of the government during this period . |
| 16 | This was a major provider of not only walking holidays but also package holidays and holiday camps . |
| 17 | And it was a major problem of finance it seems to me when you 've two possible avenues left to take . |
| 18 | Unfortunately , impure calcium sulphide was a major by-product of this second step , and the Leblanc works were surrounded by mounds of evil-smelling waste called ‘ galligu ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ The Department of Health report also showed that milk was a major contributor of calcium , thiamin , riboflavin and vitamins , and that differences in milk consumption were reflected in the falling intakes of these nutrients in lower income families . |
| 20 | However , in the 1960s there was a major revision of the provisions for plan making in order to meet alleged deficiencies of the 1947 system which had emerged : slowness , alienation of the public , a focus on land use detail rather than broad strategy , and an increasing difficulty in using two-dimensional land use maps to represent three-dimensional , multi-use development proposals . |
| 21 | It was no accident that this was a major area of feminist endeavour . |
| 22 | For centuries European colonies grew sugar to satisfy the Northern market : Europe was a major purchaser of sugar on the world market until 1975 . |
| 23 | Whatever , there was a major gathering of old and new , among them the Canadian Brian Stemmle , Switzerland 's 1987 world champion Peter Mueller , Austria 's Armin Assinger and Italy 's Michael Mair , all returning from serious injury . |
| 24 | As its name implies , the Via Militaris was a major line of communication for the Roman armies defending the eastern frontier , and as a stage in one of the links between Italy and Byzantium it already had an important role to play in the vital intercourse between the eastern and western halves of the empire . |
| 25 | Braithwaite and Gibson ( 1987 ) , reviewing the literature , came to the conclusion that the belief that retirement was a major crisis of old age was not substantiated . |
| 26 | This was how the identity of a local community was articulated against its oppressors ; this was where local men and women , also , were helped in their illnesses and misfortunes generally ; this was a major instrument of social order at the grass roots in an age of political fragmentation . |
| 27 | This too was a major piece of engineering , some half a mile long and eighteen feet wide , and making use of an estimated 4,000 oak trees . |
| 28 | Not surprisingly , the social impact of these migrants on rural communities was a major topic of study in the 1960s and 1970s , but in the 1980s , a new theme , related more to the political impact of the migrants on the power structure of rural communities has emerged , as rural sociologists and geographers have sought a more critical and a less apolitical and anodyne approach to rural society . |
| 29 | As in previous years the Cambodian issue was a major topic of discussion . |
| 30 | Certainly , in the Soviet Union the military-industrial complex ( that is the massive defence industry and military organization ) was a major opponent of many of the reforms of perestroika . |