Example sentences of "major [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ahlburg 's work is a major botanical revision , but I suspect that Rice and Strangman will appeal more to the general gardener . |
| 2 | Data exchange and collaboration on information technology between libraries has been aided nationally through co-operation between Edinburgh , Kew , Natural History ( Botany ) Library and other major botanical libraries , and internationally through the Council of Botanical and Horticultural Libraries . |
| 3 | There may also be problems of boundary changes resulting either from major local-government reorganization or from more local adjustments . |
| 4 | Washington was seen as insufficiently appreciative of British efforts , nor was its main ally always properly consulted before major foreign-policy decisions were taken which affected its interests . |
| 5 | The Sports Centre offers first-class facilities for all the major indoor sports , including squash , badminton , indoor tennis , weight training , cricket and golf practice . |
| 6 | Leaving aside the straightforwardly miraculous , there are two major possible explanations for the Star of Bethlehem . |
| 7 | So this is not a major destructive force . |
| 8 | All major publicly-funded housing developments will make adequate provision for the less well off . |
| 9 | Thus microclimate effects can have major short-term implications for local populations ( such as those brought about by the photochemical smogs of Los Angeles ) , are often applicable only over areas of a few hectares or less and may operate on a diurnal cycle . |
| 10 | The trade surplus for the first quarter of 1990 was down 35 per cent on the same period in 1989 and there was increasingly frequent talk of a recession as the major economic indices fell . |
| 11 | Never as in a time like the present — of radical social change in Italy as in other European countries , of the transition from an industrial to a service economy ( Italy 's second major economic revolution in 30 years ) , of the questioning of many social values , above all in the matter of social relations ( between the sexes , between friends , between producer and consumer ) , of profound uncertainty about the future , commingled with fear , anxiety and even expectation — never has the impotence of literature been so apparent , its inability to say the word which , in Montale 's phrase , ‘ squares us off on every side ’ ( Montale 1977 : 47 ) . |
| 12 | Agriculture was still a major economic activity in the first postwar decades , and the ability to control the food supply was widely regarded as central to national sovereignty . |
| 13 | Indisputably , the industrial co-operative sector is a major economic factor in Italy . |
| 14 | This book explores the idea of major economic shifts being on the agenda . |
| 15 | The population increase in turn affected the finely balanced domestic economy , forcing women and children out to work , and by the end of the period , with the crisis of the framework knitters , there is some evidence , when faced with major economic problems , of a use of restraint to limit births . |
| 16 | Another major economic concern is with the collections themselves — their storage , preservation and the tools for physical access . |
| 17 | Or — to continue with the EC example — countries from outside Europe ( in Africa , for instance ) enjoy a closer relationship as associate member countries than European countries belonging to the other major economic grouping , EFTA — the European Free Trade Association . |
| 18 | A relaxing thought for investors is the fact that no matter which government will be in power no major economic changes are likely . |
| 19 | Major economic changes have recently occurred in the location of industry and employment . |
| 20 | The BSP would need UDF support to pass legislation requiring a two-thirds majority , including major economic changes and the adoption of a new constitution . |
| 21 | Surveys of attitudes to so-called Thatcherite ideas ( for example , a government sticking to its principles , however unpopular ; not consulting with the major economic interests ; and the government 's inability to do much about unemployment ) found that , on average , Thatcherite supporters ( 40 per cent ) were outnumbered by opponents ( 47 per cent ) . |
| 22 | Elite theory accounts of state organization are developed and detailed , and we first review five aspects where the approach has made a distinctive contribution : the role of political leaderships in liberal democracies , the predominance of bureaucracies in shaping policy-making , the reasons for fragmentation ( or centralization ) of governmental tiers and sectors , the role of law , and the strong policy connections between government activities and major economic interests . |
| 23 | Only long-agreed norms between governing elites and major economic interests are easily formalized in law , because introducing law which coerces one of the interest blocs may destabilize corporatist patterns of bargaining . |
| 24 | Quasi-contracts also form part of this approach , allowing the state to use its financial powers as bargaining levers with which to reach agreements with major economic interests . |
| 25 | Though the country is still struggling with major economic constraints there is some evidence of improved efficiency in health care delivery since its establishment in 1986 . |
| 26 | It may be mid-1993 before a major economic upturn takes place . |
| 27 | A characteristic feature of the response to the major economic depression of the 1930s in most of the ‘ developed ’ countries of the world was the rapid growth of what was termed the ‘ welfare state ’ — which is now under severe attack as a political response to the recession of the 1970s and 1980s . |
| 28 | Debt and the destruction of war have brought major economic setbacks , aside from damage to social services and human suffering . |
| 29 | Zambia came to independence in 1964 with one major economic asset , on which the colonial economy had been based : copper . |
| 30 | The airport brings major economic benefits to the North West as we were to discover with the help of our guide John Kirby . |