Example sentences of "[verb] a major [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In south Glasgow , two secondaries are beginning a rolling programme which is aimed at thwarting a major shake-up by Strathclyde . |
| 2 | Edinburgh 's Douglas Watson , who has already won a major award in the US for his three dimensional illustration work has created his study from a clay panel . |
| 3 | McDevitt Street Bovis have also won a major contract at Prince George 's County Hospital in Cheverly , Maryland . |
| 4 | The department has also won a major order from Phillips Petroleum for fire protection equipment for the North Sea Judy/Joanne fields development project . |
| 5 | OUT OF the ruins of super-SARA , the EEC 's science commissioner Etienne Davignon has won a major reform to decision-making for the EEC 's Joint Research Centre . |
| 6 | Oh you can never mind this country 's never won a major war on its own and never will do |
| 7 | I 'm saying that I 'm an English member , we 've never won a , a major war on its own look what 's , what 's happened in , yeah , never won a major war on its own and never will do , there 's no nation in the world could beat a German army and , er what would built up |
| 8 | THE West Somerset Railway have won a major prize in the Ratcliff Mobility Awards . |
| 9 | ‘ Celtic have not won a major trophy for a while and have lost out to rivals Rangers . |
| 10 | It was Galileo 's contemporary , Kepler , who contributed a major breakthrough in that direction when he discovered that each planetary orbit could be represented by a single ellipse , with the sun at one focus . |
| 11 | It should be said that he provided a major influence on inspiration in the development of the Division 's work in this area . |
| 12 | Historians might say that in the twentieth century in Britain only the reforming administrations of 1906 and 1945 provided a major change in direction to be followed by administrations which consolidated the changes . |
| 13 | The sale to the public of 50 per cent of British Telecom ( BT ) in December 1984 was , at the time , the largest privatisation issue and it provided a major spur to the whole programme . |
| 14 | Cheap energy provided a major stimulus to economic development in Western Europe and Japan . |
| 15 | This study will examine the extent to which this capital-goods sector provided a major stimulus to invention and innovation in the century after 1780 . |
| 16 | The damage and deprivation of the Second World War provided a major stimulus in Britain to the establishment of comprehensive urban planning instruments and created a social and physical environment prepared to accept radical planning ideology . |
| 17 | It is arguable that the success of the EMS provided a major stimulus in the formulation and subsequent ratification of the Single European Act . |
| 18 | james Alt argues that the increase in supply of North Sea oil provided a major boost for sterling which in turn resulted in a loss of competitiveness for British goods and a consequent loss of manufacturing goods and employment . |
| 19 | The OPEC petro-dollar surplus provided a major boost to the euro-dollar market 's growth in the 1970s . |
| 20 | This clearly provided a major incentive to the other two districts to achieve the development of new services . |
| 21 | Hayek nevertheless continued with these themes in the post-war period ; in particular , a critique of socialist economic planning provided a major theme in his post-war work . |
| 22 | COUNCILLORS keen to attract a major supermarket to Darlington have agreed to ‘ nudge ’ a Government minister to remind him to visit the town . |
| 23 | The above housemaster felt that to change certain kinds of a teacher 's relationship to children would need a major restructuring of society . |
| 24 | Revisionists have therefore questioned the notion that the commune in itself had been a major barrier to improvement or labour mobility and , equally , the notion that dismantling the commune would in itself provide a major stimulus to agricultural development . |
| 25 | Community Health Councils provide a major platform for the consumer voice in the NHS . |
| 26 | Modern corporate businesses are few and licences for small-scale repair shops and petty street traders provide a major share of city revenue . |
| 27 | However , although rivers and estuaries helped to form these beaches , they also provide a major threat to those who windsurf from them . |
| 28 | Such trends provide a major explanation for the rise in worldwide unemployment in the 1970s and 1980s . |
| 29 | As in the African countries discussed above , forest industries also provide a major source of foreign income in Malaysia . |
| 30 | Even if FMS does not prove to be the critical target gene , characterisation of the microdeletions should considerably reduce the critical deleted region and provide a major step to identifying the real target gene . |