Example sentences of "[pers pn] a major [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've given me a major interrogation — I 'd told you about the Englishman — that 's what I should have been working on , not an idiot fire . |
| 2 | But so far neither has shown the tremendous flair with top-spin attacking that made them a major force in the world championships in Dortmund only seven months ago . |
| 3 | Okay we a major cause of some five hundred thousand pounds and we give addition to the three point six five one million which has been identified in this amendment . |
| 4 | The camera then as always gave him a major problem . |
| 5 | Yet Politics among Nations is the book which made him a major figure in the discipline and its message is as we have described it . |
| 6 | Approximately one car owner in ten will have their car broken into or stolen this year — that makes it a major problem . |
| 7 | A good thriller , and Corgi is giving it a major campaign . |
| 8 | Anyone who came to Moscow , be it a major figure of state or a simple artist , made a point of visiting the flat on Vernadsky Avenue in order to get acquainted with its rare collection . |
| 9 | The anthropologists ' work of reconstruction carries with it a major temptation , which is to try to show that every part of an exotic culture is coherent and consistent with all the other parts . |
| 10 | This twofold emphasis upon religious consciousness and on the task of theology in the present brings with it a major shift in the understanding of the character of theological and doctrinal statements — a shift from the objective to the subjective pole , from the truth to be affirmed to the awareness and intention of the person or community affirming it . |
| 11 | Increased life expectancy has brought with it a major burden ( the word is here used advisedly ) and responsibility in the care of those in an advanced state of mental and physical decline . |
| 12 | Hilton sees this destruction as a continual process , but he also recognises in it a major stage that other mystics call the " dark night of the senses " a particularly sharp period of suffering during which the will is firmly dislodged from false values and reoriented towards God . |
| 13 | The USA had constantly insisted that the Krasnoyarsk radar station should be dismantled , calling it a major obstacle to the conclusion of a START treaty , and had rejected as inadequate a Soviet decision on Oct. 27 , 1988 , to turn the complex over to the Soviet Academy of Sciences for civilian use . |
| 14 | Is it a major safety aspect do you think ? |
| 15 | In the Far East , the Indonesian government awarded us a major contract for the design of a fuel transfer and storage system for their research centre near Jakata . |