Example sentences of "and [verb] [prep] a major [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Roosevelt 's New Deal programme was an exercise in regulatory government and led to a major growth in regulation by administrative agencies . |
| 2 | The first is where the whole of the programme is provided by and taught at a major centre , as in the case of Bristol Polytechnic ; the second is where the first year is provided extra-murally at a number of associated centres , while the second year only is provided at the main centre , as the case of Portsmouth Polytechnic ; and the third is where both the first and second years are provided at the main and associate centres as at Plymouth Polytechnic and Cornwall Technical College , Camborne . |
| 3 | It aims to expand into an international festival which would perform both a social function for local residents and act as a major tourist attraction . |
| 4 | Above these is an intermediate breakdown zone resting on the sands and related to a major roof collapse , followed by several bedded sequences of breccias in which most of the fossils occur . |
| 5 | The occupation of Denmark and Norway , carried through with unexpectedly low losses and seen as a major blow for Britain , was celebrated as a ‘ great success for the bold , determined policy of the Führer ’ , whose birthday in April 1940 saw propagandists struggling to find new superlatives to express the ‘ unshakeable loyalty ’ of his ‘ following ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ It started as a short project for an article but the whole subject took off and turned into a major research field . ’ |
| 7 | The problem was that I still had a Jamaican passport and to run in a major meeting like that it was necessary to become a British subject . |
| 8 | When it is officially opened next month by King Juan Carlos , it will launch ‘ Any Miró ’ , the season of activities commemorating the centenary of the artist 's birth and culminating in a major survey of his art being organised by the Joan Miró Foundation , Barcelona and the Museum of Modern Art , New York . |
| 9 | Lindsay , a native Aberdonian , has worked in the offshore industry since 1978 and trained with a major hotel group before joining CCG in 1986 . |
| 10 | In an initiative to be launched next month by tennis consultants Brian Hewitt Associates , in conjunction with the ITF and supported by a major sponsor , old tennis balls are to be collected at 2000 ball banks around the country and shipped to third world countries for additional and subsequent use . |
| 11 | You start with a lucky break and end with a major breakthrough ! |
| 12 | The period chosen was a critical one for the British economy , emerging from the difficulties of the post-War period and embarking on a major period of expansion which saw the increase of real wages and affluence in British society . |