Example sentences of "[verb] a major [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Celtic have not won a major trophy for a while and have lost out to rivals Rangers . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Community Health Councils provide a major platform for the consumer voice in the NHS . |
| 4 | Such trends provide a major explanation for the rise in worldwide unemployment in the 1970s and 1980s . |
| 5 | The move was provoked by evidence that Venezuela was fast becoming a major centre for the laundering of drug profits and the storage and shipment of cocaine abroad , especially to growing markets in Europe . |
| 6 | What prevents sabbatarianism becoming a major vote-loser for the Party is the absence of serious competition from any group to the right on the constitution . |
| 7 | While it is difficult to draw any definite conclusions from such bald statistics on recorded crime , they clearly posed a major embarrassment for a Government pledged to reduce the crime rate . |
| 8 | This will continue to provide a major role for the profession in the conduct of life assurance and pensions business . |
| 9 | In the end , the overriding motivation for studying synaptic plasticity in the brain is the hope of gaining an understanding of the physical basis of memory in health and disease , and it is the nature of the link between LTP and memory that is likely to provide a major focus for research in the future . |
| 10 | Thirdly , by raising the level of wages above that at which they would otherwise be , the trade union movement bears a major responsibility for the high and increasing level of unemployment in the U K today . |
| 11 | The February meeting was the first of its kind to be hosted by Saudi Arabia , which opposed a major role for the Shi'ite opposition in a future Iraqi government , but now considered that the ousting of Saddam Hussein had become a priority . |
| 12 | This meant that school-children taking ‘ O ’ and ‘ A ’ levels were not moved during this crucial time and so disruption to schooling did not present a major problem for parents . |
| 13 | the merger with Warren Spring laboratory to create a major centre for environmental research . |
| 14 | I later realised I had missed a major opportunity for helping change the situation . |
| 15 | In Cantabria , the barrier they formed ( as the Barrios Quartzite ) played a major role for centuries in the military history of the Iberian Peninsula . |
| 16 | It is , moreover , an irony that these ministers ( Gaitskell , Jay , Wilson ) were at the same time preparing a Full Employment Bill which assumed a major capacity for planning within the government machine . |
| 17 | The legislation marks a major achievement for the school whose courses have been suspended since 1987 due to bureaucratic problems caused by a lack of legal status . |
| 18 | I therefore decided to strengthen and redeploy the AIB team in preparation for what would obviously become a major task for the next eighteen months or so . |
| 19 | Yet if the little Swede is patient , I can see a major part for him in George Graham 's scheme of things . |
| 20 | Would the sound of that diabolical symphonic flush carry that diabolical symphonic flush carry into the Abbey and create a major embarrassment for the British Monarchy ? |
| 21 | The construction of this terminal and construction of the Connah 's Quay power station will provide a major impetus for the local economy . |
| 22 | Table 22 of Appendix 1 shows that when people have recently bought a major item for cash rather than credit , half did so either because they never use credit or because they prefer not to if they can avoid it . |
| 23 | That car , evolving through successive S1 , S2 and S3 incarnations , became a major success for Bentley and did much to establish the tradition of a two-door , four-seater coupe in the group 's model policy . |
| 24 | 2 The personal will of the King was no longer decisive in government , and the effective choice of the Prime Minister and his leading Cabinet colleagues passed out of his hands and became a major role for a powerful House of Commons . |
| 25 | The arrival of a new and major market in the Lancaster area represents a major opportunity for local firms . |
| 26 | ICI believes that the Environmental Protection Act represents a major opportunity for good environmental performance in the future . |
| 27 | It represents a major setback for the Tories and raises the prospect of a hung Parliament with Labour the biggest party . |
| 28 | Towards the end of the year , AHT was successful in securing a four-year inspection services contract for the Shell Southern North Sea MMSC which represents a major breakthrough for the company in this area . |
| 29 | The new Transaction System from Micro Focus Plc ( CI No 2,166 ) represents a major departure for the Newbury , Berkshire company that up to now has been famed for its Cobol products and development tools rather than for production system software — but the market for Unix transaction processing systems is still wide open because scarcely any have been sold as yet . |
| 30 | The system represents a major departure for the Newbury , Berkshire company that up to now has been famed for its Cobol products and development tools rather than for production system software — but the market for Unix transaction processing systems is still wide open because scarcely any have been sold as yet . |