Example sentences of "of [noun] [vb past] a major [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the stumbling block to abattoir approval by the US Department of Agriculture remained a major barrier , according to trade sources . |
| 2 | If the PNC Declaration of Independence constituted a major landmark in this process , the time has come to embark on another major step , that of declaring the setting up of a state or government structure . |
| 3 | Another Director-General whose vision of broadcasting had a major influence in a period of important change in social attitudes was Hugh Greene , who oversaw a more liberal interpretation of ‘ public service ’ in the 1960s . |
| 4 | For example , the 1987/88 Programme of Work included a major review of the modules in Personal and Social Development ( PSD ) ; the fruits of this review appeared in the catalogue last April and the new and revised modules are being used for the first time this session . |
| 5 | New splits came in 1939 when the signing of the Soviet-German Pact and the outbreak of war created a major division in the American Socialist Workers ' Party . |
| 6 | On May 15 Talabani had hinted that the question of democracy remained a major issue in the way of an accord . |
| 7 | If we pause for a moment and consider the place of the Neolithic revolution in the theory of human personality and society so far advanced in these pages we will be struck by the fact that the coming of cultivation posed a major threat to the psychological foundations of human society as they had evolved up to that point . |
| 8 | Not surprisingly , the bourgeois ideology of domesticity had a major impact on the subordinate elements in the bourgeois coalition itself , those class fractions and groups who aspired to its social standards and standing , the middle and lower bourgeoisie . |