Example sentences of "as [num] [prep] [art] major [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This argument carried the day , despite Ramsay 's protests , and it was decided to send Keith , the Knight Marischal , as one of the major officers of state , to head the relieving party and to take over the governorship meantime . |
| 2 | The prison officers have been seen as one of the major reasons for , not one of the victims of , the mismanagement of the prison service . |
| 3 | This is not to diminish Sacrosanctum Concilium , which ranks with the Constitutions on the Church , on Scripture and the Pastoral Mission of the Church as one of the major documents of Vatican II , but at least as much as they — and perhaps more so — it had been prepared for during the pontificate of Pius XII . |
| 4 | This was used as one of the major defences of the British aid programme in Nepal which was to concentrate their efforts in villages with a predominant presence of ex-Gurkha soldiers which would encourage both better rapport between British field officers and farmers , as well as an ( ex- ) army-style sense of organisation , discipline and work-practice within the village itself . |
| 5 | It had taken £50,000 to bring Bobby back to the Palace from Leicester , but it was money well spent , for his presence was regarded by many as one of the major factors in Palace 's 1972 survival — and we recouped f 12,000 of it when Bobby bustled off to join Pompey just after Christmas . |
| 6 | This is a major problem in the Sahel zone where cash cropping has been mooted by Earth Report ( 1988 ) as one of the major causes of environmental degradation , and while the case presented may be oversimplified it is worth reiterating since cash cropping in general is not ( if past performance is taken as a measure ) the answer to Africa 's development problems . |
| 7 | And if the doctrine of collegiality is to be seen as one of the major contributions of Vatican II to the life of the Church , even that can be found in the pontificate of Pius XII , for it was he who set up CELAM , the Conference of Bishops of Latin America . |
| 8 | In what was described as one of the major discoveries of science , it was announced on April 23 that the Cosmic Background Explorer ( COBE ) satellite of the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) had discovered huge wispy clouds of matter or " ripples " at a distance of nearly 15,000 million light years , at the edge of the known universe . |
| 9 | Man needs to have some understanding of how this , and other atrocities , are possible as one of the major ways for avoiding them in the future . |
| 10 | Graham Vick directed the Scottish Opera production of Carmen in 1986 , when he had already established his name as one of the major innovators in opera ( it was he who directed the stunning version of Wagner 's ‘ Ring ’ in the Whitla Hall at last year 's Festival . ) |