Example sentences of "have a major " in BNC.

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1 Cauthen could have a major chance on Spritsail if that horse 's poor run at Ascot last week could be ignored .
2 But as far as Great Britain Ltd was concerned and building a food industry that would have a major part to play in China and Brazil and other developing countries , I was sorry the shareholders took the view that they did .
3 That will have a major bearing on whether he travels over , ’ said the trainer .
4 The effect of energy efficiency improvements will have a major influence on the changing pattern of demand in the years to the end of the century .
5 Similarly , by playing roles such as mediator , ideas person , sceptic , analyst , summarizer , you can also have a major impact not only in the meeting but far beyond it .
6 Who you are and how you behave will have a major effect on the men and women who live there .
7 Internal changes can also affect the development of the practice , for example , the resignation or retirement of partners and the appointment of new partners can have a major bearing on the vitality of the firm .
8 The airlines clearly believe that they can hang on to their lucrative business market despite evidence from France that high speed trains can have a major impact on travel preferences .
9 However , as part of a pan-European transport network it could have a major effect by breaking down to the deterrents to trade imposed by national frontiers .
10 It will have a major impact on many areas of business life .
11 Revision of this 1966 manual would clearly have a major role in influencing local developments in the future , just as Dutch and German Government publications had propagated nationally the relevant experience gained in local experiments .
12 However , what happens in the Church of England can have a major impact on people outside it , as well as on regular church attenders , for a number of reasons .
13 Under nurse training the report points out that the changes in the development of primary and community health services will have a major impact on training , which regions will need to take into account .
14 Let's have a Major miracle at Bart 's
15 Let's have a Major miracle at Bart 's
16 De La Rue chairman Peter Orchard comments : ‘ This does not have a major effect on the results of the company for the half year of for the previous year , but it does have the consequence of increasing marginally our earnings per share in both periods as the result of including within ordinary activities certain items previously classified as extraordinary . ’
17 But we 'd rather have a major scare that turned out to be a false alarm than the real thing and a late start , sir . ’
18 Since Ford would dominate the UK car market , it was hoped that the company would have a major interest in ensuring that this market was successful and that this might involve the expansion of research and development in the UK .
19 Mr Bernard Staite , boss of the consortium who operate the loco , commented : ‘ From November No 4472 will embark on a year long tour of private railways after which she will have a major overhaul .
20 So the endothelins may have a major role in atherosclerosis and the reocclusion that often follows surgical opening of occluded arteries .
21 There is an endowment to go with it , so we shall have a major institute , the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research .
22 Moscow resented being excluded from the post-war occupation of Japan for example , whilst Washington was disturbed at the Communist victory in China in 1949 , and in June 1950 the invasion of pro-Western South Korea by the Communist North dramatically demonstrated that Cold War tensions outside Europe could have a major impact within Europe .
23 On the political side , federalists hoped that there would be a gradual shift of decision-making to European institutions and that economic co-operation would have a major political impact , forcing unity at all levels — economic , social , financial , foreign affairs — until states merged into one .
24 Again to quote Hopwood ( 1984 , p. 179 ) : ‘ Accounting , by shaping the realm of the visible , can have a major impact on the significance that is attached to both organizational life as it is and the directions of change which are considered desirable . ’
25 Certainly the technical aspects of accounting can have a major influence when comparing the cost of one unit of activity with another .
26 The point we wish to make is that , even when these other factors are taken into account , decisions for which the courts are themselves directly responsible do have a major part to play in determining imprisonment rates .
27 The technique will have a major impact in this subject .
28 The ‘ baseline ’ for comparison may have a major impact on these costs .
29 Although there was a significant reduction in ipsilateral neurological events in the group who had endarterectomy , these events included transient monocular blindness and transient ischaemic attacks , which do not necessarily have a major impact on patients ' wellbeing .
30 Some might be willing to grant the general thrust of what has been said , that teaching and research are different kinds of activity , but still be reluctant to accept that teachers in higher education do not have a major responsibility to conduct research .
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