Example sentences of "[noun] made a major [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Bregawn was the winner , and the £45,260 he earned that afternoon made a major contribution to the £358,837 prize money which saw Michael Dickinson champion trainer again that season , with 120 winners in all — a record total — from 259 runners , a strike rate just short of one in two . |
| 2 | Rex made a major sigh . |
| 3 | IBM Corp seems to have whipped up as much of a storm around its head with its plunge into digital delivery of music to record stores as Alan Sugar has attracted with his bizarre sacking of Terry Venables as chief executive of Tottenham Hotspur Plc : IBM 's joint venture with Blockbuster Entertainment Corp has triggered ‘ swift , fierce and almost entirely negative ’ reaction from the music industry , the Wall Street Journal reports — ‘ IBM and Blockbuster made a major gaffe by issuing announcements without contacting the record companies , ’ said Michael Schulhof , chairman of Sony Corp 's Sony USA ; Warner Music Group talked of arrogance , MCA Music Group said it had begun working on its own electronic distribution system , and even Polygram , 80% owned by Philips Electronics NV , which also has 6% of Blockbuster , described the announcement as premature . |
| 4 | These reforms made a major contribution to the stability of independent Tanzania 's administration . |
| 5 | Showing that the role of Christian institutions and churches was central to the fortunes and misfortunes of the languages , Victor made a major contribution to our understanding of Scottish Gaelic in the religious context , particularly in his outstandingly fine third chapter , entitled Evangelical Religion and the Rise of Literacy in the Mother Tongues . |
| 6 | Howard Kendall made a major mistake on Saturday . |
| 7 | Harriet Taylor 's theories made a major impact on Mill , and led to their mutual conception and drafting of On Liberty ( 1859 ) . |
| 8 | Congress ( I ) and its allies gained only enough seats to form a minority government ; the party performed particularly badly in its traditional northern " Hindi belt " heartlands , where the BJP made a major impact , eventually emerging as the main opposition party and gaining over one-fifth of the total seats . |
| 9 | Colleges made a major contribution to that work , an activity , as with In-Service generally , for which they would lack both credibility and resources were their teacher education work to be further reduced , as the proposed reforms threaten . |
| 10 | In June 1988 the Dalai Lama made a major policy speech before the European Parliament in Strasbourg , France , developing his five-point plan , first outlined in September 1987 before a US Senate foreign relations committee in Washington [ see p. 35717 ] . |
| 11 | The Spanish police made a major breakthrough against ETA following the arrest in Bayonne ( France ) on Nov. 17 , 1990 , of 26 ETA suspects , including Carmen Guisasola , the alleged leader of ETA 's Vizcaya commando . |