Example sentences of "have [adv] [verb] a major [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Dreghorn barracks in Edinburgh has just undergone a major refurbishment programme as well as having a new wing built . |
| 2 | ( 5 ) Bleasdale Computers ( Harvard OTC ) " The company has just arranged a major deal with British Telecom who will market and supply their computers . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , 14/ 20th Hussars came back off exercise with a lot of dead equipment and 2nd Field Regiment has just finished a major inspection in preparation for firing camp starting in three weeks . |
| 4 | The decision not to simply take over the entire MoMA show was made partly on the grounds that the Pompidou has already mounted a major Matisse retrospective ( in 1971 ) , and partly through a desire to study in depth a period of the artist 's life now viewed as fundamental for the development of twentieth-century painting . |
| 5 | This suggests that during a fluent phase a speaker has already done a major part of the planning before beginning to speak a clause . |
| 6 | Palace face a fierce battle with Scottish giants Rangers to sign the tall , explosive striker who has already made a major impact north of the border . |
| 7 | Edinburgh 's Douglas Watson , who has already won a major award in the US for his three dimensional illustration work has created his study from a clay panel . |
| 8 | The fact that such technology has already had a major impact upon the leisure industry should not fill us with wild joy . |
| 9 | ‘ Art has always played a major part in my life — both my parents are painters . |
| 10 | From Table 9.6(a) it can be seen that bank financing has always played a major part in financing British industrial and commercial companies . |
| 11 | It said : ‘ There are extreme viewpoints , but this study has clearly identified a major problem area for the National Health Service . ’ |
| 12 | Since its discovery by Avogadro in the early part of the nineteenth century , this knowledge has also become a major problem for homoeopathic practitioners . |
| 13 | The housing slump has also had a major impact on removal firms . |
| 14 | The housing slump has also had a major impact on removal firms . |
| 15 | The department has also won a major order from Phillips Petroleum for fire protection equipment for the North Sea Judy/Joanne fields development project . |
| 16 | The financing of social services has now become a major issue of electoral concern . |
| 17 | At the age of 32 , he has yet to win a major championship . |
| 18 | Throughout the world , the virus hepatitis B has recently become a major health problem . |
| 19 | It has recently completed a major computerisation programme which will enable it to improve its service to the customer still further . |
| 20 | Indeed the DES has currently funded a major research project designed to evaluate the pilot schemes it has funded , for example for developing records of achievement . |
| 21 | The Consortium would have to decide if it could afford not to fight McAlpine , having already made a major investment ( politically and financially ) in the case . |
| 22 | Detailed field studies based on a number of primary and secondary schools , in different parts of the country , which will have recently undergone a major evaluation exercise . |
| 23 | After 1534 , Henry began to issue ecclesiastical injunctions on his own authority ; in 1535 his secretary of state , Thomas Cromwell , who had already played a major role in engineering the break with Rome , was appointed vicegerent or vicar-general of the church . |
| 24 | He had already taken a major decision : he would stay in Vienna . |
| 25 | The issue had already had a major impact during the election campaign , when Wolfgang Schnur , a human rights lawyer in Rostock and the leader of Democratic Awakening , resigned his post on March 14 after admitting that he had worked for the Stasi . |
| 26 | Many shrewd judges , both on the veldt and in England , though that the Springbok selectors were taking a massive gamble with Griffin , who had already been called for throwing in his own country , especially as unfair bowling had lately become a major issue . |
| 27 | At the time of his stroke , he had just finished a major biography , which had received critical acclaim , and he was researching for his next book . |
| 28 | For Napoleon III the defeat was doubly fatal in that it not only revealed France 's weakness but also underlined the extent to which Prussia had now become a major power . |
| 29 | This had now become a major programme that would need external funding . |
| 30 | The paper had now taken a major turning . |