Example sentences of "make a major [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | President Bush has made a major concession to industry over the implementation of the new Clean Air Act , overturning a decision by the Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) . |
| 2 | There was a hint that this was a short term strategy , Mao at the seventh national congress in April nineteen forty five argued the C C P has made a major concession to land to the tiller . |
| 3 | But then why would Mao in nineteen forty five say that how that they 'd made a major concession to land to the tiller but that this is a correct one and they 're going to , that land reform has to be taken in stages and they 're going to first of all reduce rent and , I mean er |
| 4 | The ANC secretary-general , Cyril Ramaphosa , said the government had made a major concession on the issue of devolution of power to regional governments . |
| 5 | A customer who has made a major purchase may then realise that he needs other , smaller items . |
| 6 | English hill forts and medieval towns have been extensively excavated in recent years , and a new dimension has been added to our knowledge of them ; in this the Biddles have been the incomparable pioneers in their excavations at Winchester — but many other cities have made a major contribution , including York and Lincoln and Oxford . |
| 7 | Already the rosy periwinkle from Madagascar has made a major contribution to curing childhood leukaemia and other blood cancers . |
| 8 | Perhaps most importantly , a clear statement of the Government 's interest could do a great deal to improve industry 's poor image in the eyes of the media and of young people , a factor which has made a major contribution to our failure as a nation to make the best of our reserves of natural talent . |
| 9 | The Empire had made a major contribution , in men and resources , to the French war effort , much national pride was invested in it , and it was seen as a source of continuing French influence in the world . |
| 10 | And yet , in a separate discussion of education in Cuba since the revolution , Bowles claims the exact opposite : ‘ There is every indication ’ , he writes , ‘ that the allocation of a sizeable fraction of the nation 's resources to education has made a major contribution to the forces of production . ’ |
| 11 | There is no doubt that Kandel and his school have made a major contribution to the study of the neurobiology of short-term processes in memory formation , both in terms of experimental insights and in bringing physiological respectability to a research field which many , in the aftermath of some of the débâcles of the 1960s , felt chary of entering . |
| 12 | The real problem , of course , is that with only one prize in the art world it is so difficult to select only four artists who have made a major contribution over a year . |
| 13 | They have made a major contribution to staff development by means of short courses and modular programmes in various areas of management education and have developed the Certificate of Management Studies on a significant scale . |
| 14 | It has acquired this position for a number of reasons including the fact that historically it was essentially the creation of the people of Wales themselves and has made a major contribution to the educational needs of the nation . |
| 15 | He has made a major contribution to public understanding of science through his books , lectures and broadcasts and through the Exploratory . |
| 16 | We have made a major contribution to the overall income of pensioners , while all that the Labour party has to offer is inflationary erosion of savings , a failure in home ownership and many other schemes that Labour has offered ; although such proposals make it seem that pensioners are better off , because they are offered with other features , in reality it is a small percentage rise . |
| 17 | Wimpey became heavily involved in Oman 's drive for modernisation and through Wimpey Alawi has made a major contribution to the fabric of the State by building roads , prestigious offices and government buildings , a police training college , hospitals — including the magnificent £150 million Royal Hospital — and hotels . |
| 18 | Indeed grazing rights could be an issue in themselves , and disputes over these probably made a major contribution to bringing about the Norfolk rebellion of 1549 ( 73 , pp.71 , 142–3 ) . |
| 19 | You have made a major contribution to this production , Miss Grimsilk . |
| 20 | Oxford is a national centre for the treatment of problems associated with childbirth , and research in Oxford has made a major contribution to the treatment of these problems . |
| 21 | Just turned 21 , she has sold more than 30 million records worldwide , has made a major feature film and has silenced the carping critics with a massively successful debut tour as a live performer . |
| 22 | It was a fuss about nothing , and I greatly doubt whether anyone other than Randolph Churchill would have made a major issue of it . |
| 23 | General Motors of America believed they had made a major breakthrough into the British market in 1985 when they persuaded Foster Yeoman to buy four specially constructed 3,300hp locomotives to haul heavy stone traffic from their Merehead quarry to locations in the South East . |
| 24 | But the Germans really had little to boast about ; they too had made a major blunder early on by concentrating on the construction of Zeppelins , and their maintenance of technical superiority during most of the war was almost entirely thanks to the brilliance of a twenty-five-year-old Dutchman , Tony Fokker . |
| 25 | Youngsters like Keith Piper have blossomed and though neither are playing today , Alan Donald and Tom Moody have made a major impression and impact with bat and ball . |
| 26 | It 's tricky , as someone who skis and mountaineers , to whine about the encroachment of ski developments in Scotland , especially when the developers of Aonach Mor spilt so much ink about how they were ‘ conservation friendly ’ , they could have made a major motion picture out of their press releases . |
| 27 | Erm well why would you er get engaged in a , a contest erm with er the three warring factions , because you certainly would n't be able to con confine yourself to one , and since there 's no national interest as such , I know there have been many attempts to link er Bosnia with er peace in the world generally or with world order , in fact there is no threat er this is a civil war , strictly speaking , and th there 's no evidence that it would er sp spill over into a major war unless it was made a major war er by those er with the er forces that exist . |
| 28 | The Consortium would have to decide if it could afford not to fight McAlpine , having already made a major investment ( politically and financially ) in the case . |
| 29 | An infant at eight months who retrieves a completely-occluded object has made a major advance in understanding the appearance-reality distinction , at least on the plane of action , because he now knows that , although the perceptual input at one time tells him that there is no rattle in his reachable space , really there is . |
| 30 | Returning from a break in Wales , we found annual nettles , chickweed and seedling thistles had made a major takeover bid for the plot ; a bit of a blow , but not entirely unexpected . |