Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] a major [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new styles marked a major change of direction at the time of the Civil Wars ; although they often impinged only indirectly on local farming life , the upheavals of the 1640s were enough to halt the great rebuilding almost entirely . |
| 2 | A huge backlog of unfit dwellings was apparent , and in the event the period between the mid-1950s and mid-1970s wrought a major transformation . |
| 3 | In the early 1980s in Britain , the Economic and Social Research Council funded a major research project which lent an official academic seal to the work of individuals concerned . |
| 4 | Gramsci 's writings marked a major shift away from the one-sided economic determinism of writers such as Rusche and Kirchheimer . |
| 5 | It is one in which the group achieved a major breakthrough only last year . |
| 6 | The fact that important elements in the Labour Party were thinking in these terms marked a major shift from the ideals expressed in the party 's 1945 election manifesto , Let Us Face The Future : ‘ [ we shall ] plan from the ground up , giving an appropriate place to constructive enterprise and private endeavour in the national plan ’ . |
| 7 | Jaynes in fact argues that the shift to self-critical awareness involved a major alteration in the use of the brain with a new emphasis on the analytical functions of the right hemisphere and the subordination of the more holistic left ( see Chapter 11 ) . |
| 8 | In 1972 the Heath Government promoted a major Local Government Act designed to strengthen local councils , partly by weeding out the smaller and weaker local units and partly by helping the whole system to become more efficient . |
| 9 | It was a despatch which The Times never printed : its sports editor was out to dinner , as usual , and the subeditor who got the copy missed a major scoop through ignorance . |
| 10 | Not only has the DES funded a major evaluation programme of its own schemes , many of the local and regional initiatives are also instituting evaluation studies . |
| 11 | Loughran achieved a major victory last November by stopping Canada 's world-rated Commonwealth champion Donovan Boucher in three rounds . |