Example sentences of "been major [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There have been major developments in the NHS in the three years since the advisory council was set up and new avenues for discussing possible changes have been developed , ’ said Lord Fraser . |
| 2 | In the process area , there have been major developments in catalysts for polypropylene manufacture and in the technology for making chlorine and also ammonia — both very mature products indeed on the face of it but where the story has by no means ended , even after a century . |
| 3 | The worlds of industry and commerce , accountancy and finance , advertising and government have been major recruiters of graduates from the department for many years . |
| 4 | As a result of the ‘ literate mentality ’ that these institutions helped to form in England , and to which Lyons and fellow academics now subscribe , later historians , looking back to records of eleventh century England , tended to discard medallions , seals and other material objects that had been major criteria of validation in the oral culture of that period . |
| 5 | There have been major changes in both the interface of the police and raped women and in the media coverage . |
| 6 | Secondly , there have been major changes in the amount of rape reported in the press . |
| 7 | In 1969 there had been major changes in the value of the German mark and French franc which threatened to damage EEC internal trade . |
| 8 | Over the last ten years there have been major changes in the employment structure of British society . |
| 9 | ‘ But there have been major changes for 1993 . |
| 10 | Chairman I think going to the points that Mr Donson made , there have been major changes . |
| 11 | It appears that there have been major changes in the rationale and operation of the MTFS as a result of the effects of financial innovation , which would indeed seem to suggest a degree of discretion is necessary in policy actions . |
| 12 | ‘ There have also been major changes on antifoulings . |
| 13 | In addition , there have been major reforms in state provisions for pensioners . |
| 14 | Clearly , Harald was a highly-efficient organiser of labour and materials : the felling and transportation of the large quantities of timber used in the camps and at Ravning , for example , must have been major operations in themselves . |
| 15 | In all these countries there have been major debates about what policy to adopt in order to restrict the arrival of such people . |
| 16 | Speaking to The Art Newspaper Ms Lyles noted that while there have been major surveys of British watercolours in recent years ( such as that held at the British Museum in 1985 ) these have tended to be in-house shows , with the emphasis on highlights from individual collections . |
| 17 | We have seen that localism and the drift to increasingly authoritarian government have been major problems even for Africa 's more successful leaders , and have been disastrous in other cases such as Uganda and Nigeria . |
| 18 | Whilst this use of ‘ creative ’ accountancy may have helped to avoid the harsh reality of nuclear power 's burdensome construction charges , there have also been major problems in the area of running costs . |
| 19 | There have been major rebellions against the imposition of charges for eye and dental tests , for an amendment to grade the poll tax according to ability to pay , and for the second reading of a private members ' bill to liberalize the Official Secrets Act . |
| 20 | In countries such as Bangladesh , for instance , there have been major campaigns to give each village its own borehole and hand pump . |
| 21 | In the early stages we started off with perhaps Minor schools which could almost have been Major ones , because you were just trying to find any school that had got some kind of life , or interest , or things happening … really in many ways it was rather a matter of chance because of the way it happened at the time . |
| 22 | Britain 's position within the international division of labour and its trade balance were examined in Chapter 1 , where it was seen that there have indeed been major shifts over the post-war period . |
| 23 | There should have been major expenditure on affordable provision , this would be a major factor in getting people back to work . ’ |
| 24 | These inspired the Chinese people and within a few years , there had been major efforts to move away from the centralised , planned economic system which was typical of communist regimes . |
| 25 | In addition , the coalminers , through their trades unions , have long been major actors in the political arena those of both the workplace ( notably the Trades Union Congress ) and the state ( the Labour party ) . |
| 26 | At a meeting on July 23 , politicians who had been major figures in the pre-1980 period agreed to bring their respective political parties into a united front against President Mugabe 's Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front ( ZANU-PF ) . |
| 27 | Having risen strongly over the post-war period until that year , growth stopped ; there have been major fluctuations since , but the total has never been so high again . |
| 28 | There have been major increases in the amount of reporting of rape and other sex crimes in the media . |
| 29 | In music , where there are still also patronal relations in commissioned works , there are still predominantly distributive post-artisanal relations in orchestral works and in traditional sheet music , while in popular music the second , productive post-artisanal phase has long been established , and there has been major movement into later phases of market relations . |
| 30 | One aspect of the landscape revolution which this entailed appears to have been major drainage works , which drastically modified the stream between the two villages , to create what is now known as the Maxey Cut . |