Example sentences of "and [adv] [verb] a major [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many others joined the SPD , and eventually had a major influence on changing its policies back into a more radical line than the Bad Godesberg programme . |
| 2 | We can respond to this in two ways , either by abandoning studies on non-human animals and thus losing a major source of evidence , or by finding ways of making legitimate cross-species extrapolations . |
| 3 | The Commons , by its elected status , associates the people with the government , and thus makes a major contribution to legitimacy , a concept essential for government by consent . |
| 4 | Released after Simon 's great victory at Lewes ( 14 May ) , Peter was one of the council of nine imposed on the king ( June 1264 ) and thenceforth played a major part in the direction of central government . |
| 5 | In fourth year , students take a number of specialist options and also undertake a major piece of original research . |
| 6 | She tackled any problems which arose with great tact and charm and also played a major part in the production of our Expansion Programme . |
| 7 | BRACKEN HOUSE , THE former home of the Financial Times , came under threat at the time ministers were considering the introduction of the Thirty Year Rule on listing ( see page 149 ) , and probably played a major part in securing the greater protection for post-war buildings of excellence that SAVE had sought for so long . |
| 8 | Until the autumn of 1976 , the £6 fiat-rate increase for wages and salaries below £8,500 , agreed by the TUC General Council by a narrow margin in July 1975 , held firm and clearly played a major part in the sharp reduction of inflation that year . |
| 9 | Van Cleef was cast opposite Eastwood in For A Few Dollars More ( 1965 ) and The Good , The Bad and The Ugly ( 1966 ) and immediately became a major star and a poster pin-up . |
| 10 | The incompatibility of justice and correction as penal objectives has long been , and still remains , the major unsolved problem of penal practice and consequently remains a major issue for the correctionalist stance in criminology . |
| 11 | In 1984 the National Gallery mounted an exhibition of nineteenth-century Danish painting and subsequently purchased a major work by Kobke , ‘ The Northern drawbridge to the Citadel , Copenhagen ’ . |