Example sentences of "of [num] [prep] [art] major [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are the source of five of the major rivers of the Midlands . |
| 2 | I was also disappointed that no mention was made in the Queen 's Speech of one of the major consequences of the Gulf war — the plight of the Kurdish people throughout the region . |
| 3 | It has also been found to be a source of one of the major ingredients of the contraceptive pill . |
| 4 | He had no idea of the real identity of one of the major shareholders in the enterprise and he regarded Irina as a dedicated and skilful doctor . |
| 5 | At the time , I was particularly enthusiastic about the possibility of the involvement of one of the major neurotransmitters , acetylcholine , in memory formation , and had set up a simple , fast assay for the brain 's acetylcholine receptor ( called the muscarinic receptor , to distinguish it from other types of acetylcholine receptor ) . |
| 6 | Often the problem will be found to fall short of one of the major crimes . |
| 7 | In the view of one of the major contributors to the debate about when and how the concept should be deployed , however , this is not the result of semantic ambiguity . |
| 8 | In 1950 the company was wound up and its copyright taken over by the Britons Society , in a merger of racial nationalist and Die-hard conservative traditions — an ideological alliance of two of the major strands of political thought which later heavily influenced the ideas of the National Front . |
| 9 | The initial treatment of two of the major characters in the book , Bodser Brown and Audrey Parton , provides an interesting contrast . |
| 10 | Nicholas Payne is one of the inspirational architects of two of the major achievements of post-war British music — the Welsh National Opera and Opera North . |