Example sentences of "[verb] [art] major [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In July he led a great army against the Scots , but their Fabian tactics and ‘ scorched-earth ’ policy defeated his efforts even to relieve Berwick ; he returned to England ‘ with nothing done worth writing about ’ , as one chronicler put it , and disbanded the major part of his army . |
| 2 | Stalin had been hoping that British and American forces would be used to create a ‘ second front ’ on the main continent of Europe and by now he had convinced himself that the United States and Britain were deliberately delaying the creation of the ‘ second front ’ so that the Russian forces would be weakened by allowing the major part of the German forces to continue to oppose them on the eastern front . |
| 3 | It is also useful to consider how major potential customers perceive the major competitors of the business so that shortcomings can be identified and overcome . |
| 4 | Baldwin knew of the development of Chamberlain 's view , and made the major mistake in the circumstances of proceeding with his plans for France and leaving Chamberlain in charge in London . |
| 5 | The government argued that the country 's economic crisis [ see below ] , coupled with the danger of being locked out of the future EC single market and the collapse of communist rule in eastern Europe , made the major shift in policy in favour of EC membership imperative . |
| 6 | Given the major schisms within the lower class of the street — encompassing both the collective solidarity of a community in relation to outsiders and the entrepreneurship by which individuals ensured their personal survival , and the schisms of age and gender — police relations with that public were inevitably confusing and paradoxical . |
| 7 | Whether the Halls , who remain the major shareholders with 42pc , will withdraw their support from the Second Division club remains to be seen . |
| 8 | Water constitutes the major mass of an organism . |
| 9 | Returning specifically to inner city matters , the urban programme now constitutes the major thrust of planning policy for environmental recovery , but it has long since over-ridden traditional procedures in schemes for housing and redevelopment . |
| 10 | Indeed , they will remain the major source of information for car drivers for the foreseeable future ’ . |
| 11 | Current educational programmes aimed at all school children on the risks of drug abuse may fail to emphasise the major risks of alcohol and of some prescribed medicines and they may make the false assumptions that : a. drug addiction is simply a product of repeated use of drugs rather than a specific risk of some particular individuals . |
| 12 | The degree to which an individual possessed rights over the rice crop thus defined his position in the whole socio-economic system , and became the major indicator of wealth and status for most of the population . |
| 13 | The process of training — small affinity groups , personal regeneration , spiritual exercises — became the major activity of many PPU groups . |
| 14 | When Trieste became the major outlet for the trade of central Europe , Dalmatians were found in ships of the Lloyd Triestino line . |
| 15 | the use of pesticides , which had grave implications for creatures at the top of food chains where the chemicals were concentrated , became the major problem of the 60s ; oil pollution of the sea was sometimes catastrophic in the 70s . |
| 16 | The Palais Club had a membership in 1928 ‘ well past the ½ thousand mark ’ and it grew fast as dancing became the major pastime of the 30s and 40s . |
| 17 | During the 1880s the poll-tax was abolished and indirect taxes — especially the liquor monopoly — became the major source of government revenue . |
| 18 | Episcopalianism , combined with legitimism , therefore , became the major ground for Scottish Jacobitism . |
| 19 | Peter needs to understand this and then , if given adequate help and support , will feel that he can make the major contribution towards restoring his own health ( see also Chapter 3 ) . |
| 20 | I am sure we will all continue to report the major stories around the world . |
| 21 | Ballymoney 's Robert Dunlop got the major share of the spoils in the other races , winning both 250 events and the 125 race , while Scottish rider Jim Moodie notched up another double in the Supersport 400 and Regal 600 races . |
| 22 | Since cursive script is the most difficult type to recognise , it represents the major focus of the work described in this thesis . |
| 23 | Large agencies , however , usually have a specialist function , that of the account planner , to perform the major part of this task . |
| 24 | Döldissen has listed the major characteristics of the six research areas ( Figure 6.1 ) . |
| 25 | The enthusiasm generated by this approach can , however , blind ; the simplicism , the ‘ nothing butism ’ as Julian Huxley would have said , of reducing all functional explanations of complex behaviour to calculations concerning the relative fitnesses ( see p. 42 ) of gene-bearers tends to miss the major significance of human beings to other human beings . |
| 26 | As a way of tackling the major problem of making something essentially static into something always forward-moving , I offer this tip . |
| 27 | He made close contacts with leaders of popular movements , and it was he who provided the major link between the co-operatives and trade unionism . |
| 28 | They represented the main category of course provision in the District and provided the major area of growth in student numbers and geographical expansion . |
| 29 | Hepatocytes may produce heparan sulphate proteoglycans but ‘ in situ ’ hybridisation studies suggest the major source of type IV collagen is lipocytes , while laminin is derived predominantly from lpocytes and endothelial cells . |
| 30 | Principal of the British School of Shiatsu-Do , Ray Ridolfi , says that all you runners will need the major systems in your bodies — such as the nervous , musculatory , respiratory and excretory — restored to normal after a marathon by a practitioner . |