Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [verb] a major [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A DRIVER sparked a major alert when he refused to stop for police because he thought patrol cars still used bells . |
| 2 | The treaty between Robert II of Flanders and Henry I of England , renewed by their successors , stipulated that each knight supplied to the English king should bring three horses with him — this at a time when a horse represented a major investment . |
| 3 | The poetry which the children produced as a result forms a major part of the exhibition which also includes photographs from the library 's archives , the Bigger-McDonald Collection , the Willie Carson Collection and those donated by the late Mabel Colhoun . |
| 4 | We ca n't really complain of being immediately affected by all the building , and we can still see Oban Bay and the ferries coming and going ( at a distance , it 's true ) , but it 's a bit of a shock to find a major extension to Oban on our doorstep , more or less . |
| 5 | The fate of a watchman became a major element in burgh politics in this district , for although Captain James Cunningham was clearly sympathetic to John Main on personal grounds , there was more at stake than the solvency of a single family . |
| 6 | The most mouthwatering specimens tend to be found in limestones — famous sites are in the Silurian rocks of England and Mississipian rocks of the U.S.A. The group as a whole had a major crisis in the Permian , during which most of the Palaeozoic forms died out . |
| 7 | Such a bank provides a major service to other participants by giving the market depth , continuity and ability to handle customers ' requirements . |
| 8 | By the early 1970s the CNAA had established and reviewed policies ; framed a pattern of degrees and made the revisions which resulted , for example , in the adoption of the degree and degree with honours , branching from a common foundation , to replace the essentially two-track ordinary and honours structure ; and arrived at a broad and growing diversity of subject areas to validate , with a potential to make a major contribution in additional areas . |
| 9 | Since then Gilford has nursed an ambition to become a major figure in the game and has proved one of the strong men on the PGA European tour . |
| 10 | When an application receives a major change in code , often to correct previous errors , users should not be expected to re-buy the product to pay for the inefficiency of the authors . |