Example sentences of "[verb] been [det] major [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The result has been that major reforms are completely avoided and every minor reform is weakened or sabotaged .
2 The general impression has been that major capital schemes not requiring Treasury approval have been poorly appraised .
3 Whether this redirection has yet had much effect in the classroom is another matter entirely from my own observations there seems as yet to have been few major changes in practice .
4 Before we do that we must see what we can glimpse of what seems to have been another major achievement of the seventh century , the revival of the art of painting .
5 The office is one workplace where there have been few major changes — the ball-point pen and the photocopier hardly qualify as major — in half a century , since telephones took over .
6 There have been several major improvements to the process at Gt .
7 During the last 12 months or so there have been several major developments which will influence the international economic climate in which we all operate .
8 And there have been several major episodes of extinction ( Chapter 6 ) , when the cast of characters in the sea changed almost totally .
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