Example sentences of "[prep] a major [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They did n't know their church had bin taken over an' wuz bein' used by the Triads , as a front fer a major drugs operation . |
| 2 | I would add only that the cost of insurance in Belgium , where I was general manager of a major insurance company for nine years , is much higher than in Britain , and the rate of inflation has now steadied after a major explosion when these factors were introduced . |
| 3 | Ten of the party were found off Lyme Regis , Dorset , four hours after a major air and sea search . |
| 4 | I had convinced myself the diet was necessary even though I found it tough going and particularly rough after a major operation and great weight loss . |
| 5 | Minton 's generous hospitality was extended to many , to Robert Frame , Leslie Todd-Reeve and his wife , Nessie Dunsmuir and her sister who lodged for several weeks at Hamilton Terrace before and after a major operation . |
| 6 | And after a major operation there he was wagging his tail and |
| 7 | While France was content for Germany to remain divided , it was concerned about its new neighbour , the Federal Republic of West Germany , not least about the rapid economic growth that had occurred there after a major currency reform in 1948 . |
| 8 | of ten , overnight , especially after a major row with her daughter , Marie 's mother , stricken with guilt , would swear to herself that she would make it up to Marie tomorrow : tomorrow , they would make a fresh start . |
| 9 | Tension remained high in Tunisia after a major demonstration on Jan. 24 against the actions of the United States-led coalition in its war with Iraq . |
| 10 | A few weeks , sometimes only a few days after a major disaster or tragedy — Hillsborough , Piper Alpha or Zeebrugge — there 's bound to be a gag about it . |
| 11 | Coed Glas is only a few miles away from Ty Mawr , the controversial children 's home which is to be closed shortly after a major inquiry . |
| 12 | It is hoped that ‘ Boscastle ’ will be in service early in 1992 after a major effort by the owning syndicate who have engaged the services of Bulleid Pacific maestro Phil Preston , who was involved with similar work on 35005 . |
| 13 | The term does not apply , however , to material ejected after a major impact on Earth and which follows a suborbital path back through the atmosphere to the Earth 's surface . |
| 14 | Only one of them , the Labyrinth at Knossos , was restored and repaired so that it could continue to use after 1470 , and it was more or less completely abandoned some ninety years later after a major fire . |
| 15 | But until last Saturday night I had never seen how a major accident ward looked directly after a major accident . |
| 16 | Patrick , who joins Michael and EastEnders actress mum Lizzie Power for a family holiday in Sardinia on Wish You Were Here , was born with cerebral palsy and is recovering after a major hip operation which his father describes as ‘ monstrous ’ . |
| 17 | South Korea 's Environment Minister has been sacked following a major scandal in which tap water in millions of homes twice became severely polluted . |
| 18 | In the meantime , the tendering process for the purchase of Warrington 's own CT scanner has started following a major boost for fund-raisers since the bombings . |
| 19 | It does not replace the need for an internal audit of a major construction project . |
| 20 | The opening marked the culmination of a major exercise of moving around 450 staff and all their equipment from nearby Culcheth after the site was sold for residential development . |
| 21 | Even the House of Commons Select Committee on Energy , reporting on the PWR in 1981 , said that ‘ all reactor types require regular inspection , but to the best of our understanding , in none of the others can a small failure in the inspection procedure lead directly to the risk of a major emergency or accident … ’ |
| 22 | In future , environment clean up specialists and other disaster experts from across the globe will help fellow LASMO workers in the event of a major emergency . |
| 23 | The objectives of this project are to open up new theoretical insights and practical applications in the field of industrial fault diagnosis by investigating the advantages and disadvantages of a major departure from the way in which the diagnostic problem |
| 24 | Dulles had warned ministers in Paris on 11 December 1956 that Nato " must have a measure of flexibility although our main reliance [ about 90 per cent of cases ] must be on atomic weapons in the event of a major attack " . |
| 25 | This was indicated by the dispatch of British warships to the region , the construction of a major base on Diego Garcia , and the desire of the British cabinet ‘ to set up its own rapid deployment corps , which will be used to support the convenient regimes in that region and suppress the national liberation movements there ’ . |
| 26 | David Tagg of Grand Metropolitan said the same , fully accepting that his company did not have a research department comparable with that of a major headhunting firm , and neither was this necessarily desirable . |
| 27 | While much of the UK is looking gloomily at the dark clouds of a major recession , it seems poetic justice that for at least some of Belfast 's population , the future looks better than it has for many years . |
| 28 | The resources of the AIB and its equivalent organisations throughout the world are necessarily limited for reasons of economy , and the person in charge has to deploy his forces in the most effective manner he can devise while at the same time always keeping enough reserves in hand in case of a major catastrophe . |
| 29 | Yesterday on Central News we met Graham Cooper , the managing director of a major printing company in Wantage , and one of the employees , Vic Marshall . |
| 30 | The future of a major logging , pulp and paper project planned for the Merauke area of Irian Jaya ( west Papua ) has been put in doubt after the withdrawal of one of the two companies supporting it . |