Example sentences of "a major [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , if we are to see a major confluence of the world 's financial markets , we need to have prepared our financial structure and planning in good time to take advantage of such changes . |
| 2 | To sum up , Kitzbuhel is a major year round sporting and leisure centre and as such offers every facility . |
| 3 | Above all , it 's a relaxing therapy and she sees it as a major way of helping a runner ‘ warm down ’ . |
| 4 | Another major event which has affected the British economy is the decline of the British Empire and Commonwealth , linked as it was in a major way to the two world wars of this century . |
| 5 | At the broadest level , the Course contributes in a major way to the achievement of the Polytechnic 's overall aims . |
| 6 | And in their survey of 9–13 middle schools , the HMI argued that work was of a higher standard where there was a greater use of subject teachers , and where those subjects had been studied in a major way in higher education by the teachers concerned . |
| 7 | A major way in which women are represented in the study of deviance is through the theory of ‘ feminine identification ’ , which is a common one in explanations of delinquency and criminality . |
| 8 | The overt intrusion of politics into the courtroom varies widely from one system to another , but at root the legal process is a major way in which the ‘ who gets what ’ choices are made in any society , however different the process by which these choices are made appears to be . |
| 9 | A major work on a coherent subject seemed out of the question . |
| 10 | By 1920 the English Channel Tunnel Company 's scheme for a rail tunnel between Shakespeare Cliff and Sangatte was at an advanced stage of development and had attracted the support of MPs , businessmen and engineers who saw it as a major work of postwar reconstruction which would provide badly needed employment at a time of recession . |
| 11 | Green 's text is a major work of scholarship and an important contribution to our knowledge of Cubism , one lacuna in which is now filled with the publication , in this catalogue and by Christian Derouet , of the missing correspondence from 1915 to 1920 between Gris and Leonce Rosenberg , the artist 's dealer during that period . |
| 12 | Before this , however , a major work of Freud 's must be examined , for it is central to his social philosophy and psychoanalytic sociology . |
| 13 | THE Royal Bank has commissioned a major work of art for Drummond House . |
| 14 | From 1924 my father intended to write a major work about his friend and that is why he had asked Modigliani 's mother to supply him with all possible information about his childhood and adolescence . |
| 15 | In 1984 the National Gallery mounted an exhibition of nineteenth-century Danish painting and subsequently purchased a major work by Kobke , ‘ The Northern drawbridge to the Citadel , Copenhagen ’ . |
| 16 | A major work by Matisse surfaces in his Nice home after sixty years |
| 17 | A major work in the field remains A Dictionary of British Surnames by P.H. Reaney , in which the relevant entry reads , ‘ Fursey , Fussey , Fuzzey , Forsey ’ , and goes on to instance John Forshay 1431 ( Dorset ) and Roger Fursey 1583 ( Surrey ) . |
| 18 | I do not accept that the proposal represents a major surrender of sovereignty . |
| 19 | Now 26 he decided to make a major leap into white collar work . |
| 20 | Because it relies entirely on voluntary effort , the Association as currently constituted is not able to face a major expansion without help from the University . |
| 21 | A MAJOR expansion of The Independent begins today with more space for news , features and sport . |
| 22 | ‘ We are going to develop inducements and encouragements for a major expansion of research and development , because if we are going to rival our major competitors we have a long way to go in catching up with them . |
| 23 | Another , less obvious factor , seldom mentioned , was that Chapman was planning a major expansion of Lotus ( his road cars and not his race cars ) in America , and Mario was to be , for him , an important marketing tool . |
| 24 | Instead , during the last quarter of the nineteenth century , Britain embarked on a major expansion of formal imperial control . |
| 25 | As we have already seen , these make up a sizeable number of temporary workers and in the years since 1983 there has been a major expansion of special employment measures in Britain . |
| 26 | The late nineteenth century saw a major expansion of paleontology as new areas were opened up for exploration . |
| 27 | The proportion of the final value of silk goods returned to producers is substantial , sufficient indeed to have led to a major expansion of the industry in recent years , with visibly greater prosperity in sericultureal areas . |
| 28 | The deregulation of long-distance coach services has led to a major expansion in reliable and cheap services . |
| 29 | They are a necessary product of every social formation based on the division of labour , and the advance of capitalism involves a major expansion in their numbers . |
| 30 | Some of the changes can be achieved by improving existing services and arrangements but a major expansion in community services will be needed to make community car a reality for everyone who needs it . |