Example sentences of "been a major [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In particular , while the broad move towards smaller , more powerful pocket-sized computing has continued , there has been a major new entrant into the field of handheld information devices . |
| 2 | It seems that the policy of Exclusion , which had first been raised in 1673 , and which had been a major political goal of the first Whigs , had at last come to fruition . |
| 3 | In the past , the publication of such a book would have been a major professional event . |
| 4 | Family restriction , by cutting down on labour costs , accelerated middle-class living standards , and this seems likely to have been a major contributory factor to decisions to limit family size . |
| 5 | His close , intimate relationship with his personal assistant , Marissa Kenton , had also been a major contributory factor . |
| 6 | The high cost of capital in Britain has been a major contributory cause over many years to relatively poor investment levels and low productivity in comparison to many of her competitors . |
| 7 | For many years there have been worries over the increasing monopolisation of British industry , as evidenced by increased levels of both aggregate and market concentration , and for which there is little doubt that merger activity has , at times , been a major causal factor ( see e.g. HMSO 1978 , Hughes 1989 ) . |
| 8 | John Elsley spoke for many booksellers up and down the country : ‘ Unemployment and the fear of unemployment have been a major adverse factor , during the year and particularly in the period up to Christmas . ’ |
| 9 | The resolution of this issue , which until then had been a major sticking point [ see pp. 37259 ; 37303 ; 37379 ; 37466 ; 37535 ] , paved the way for the resolution of outstanding issues in the third round of " two-plus-four " talks on July 17 . |
| 10 | Milton has suggested then that the extreme diversity of plant foods in tropical forests and the way in which they are distributed there in space and time has been a major selective force in the development of advanced cerebral complexity in certain higher primates . |
| 11 | It is now clear to Earth scientists that the extent of ocean water and its depth and shallowness , and the way it periodically invades the land and then retreats , has been a major climatic determinant . |
| 12 | Over the past few decades , in particular , in structuralist anthropology , psychoanalysis , and Marxist theory , there has been a major theoretical effort to challenge the naturalness of the ‘ unitary subject ’ in social theory , to see the individual as a product of social forces , an ‘ ensemble of social relations ’ , rather than as a simple natural unity . |
| 13 | ‘ The quality initiative has been a major driving force , ’ John added . |
| 14 | This riles the anthropologists because theorizing about the rules governing mating between close kin has been a major anthropological preoccupation for well over a century . |
| 15 | But in no Western country so far , other than in the years following the end of a war , has there been a major permanent reduction in the role of the state . |
| 16 | It 's absolutely massive , yes , it 's a national er campaign , so we 've been recruiting people from all kinds of ways ; direct mail , er getting in touch with people who 've done it for us before , er through magazines and so on and the whole thing has been a major logistical undertaking . |
| 17 | The establishment of a National Curriculum has certainly been a major historical movement , but it is not the case that nothing was defined prior to 1988 and now everything is defined . |