Example sentences of "[verb] a major [noun] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | McDevitt Street Bovis have also won a major contract at Prince George 's County Hospital in Cheverly , Maryland . |
| 2 | We have just noted that new technology has a major impact at work in accelerating the shift from manufacturing into services , in reducing the amount of routine work , and in job displacement . |
| 3 | TRAINER David Elsworth 's pre-emptive dabble in the Champion Hurdle market received a major boost at Ascot yesterday . |
| 4 | They have now been accepted by the CNAA as being equal and acceptable degree qualifications where appropriate and they do mark a major attempt at the rationalization of art and design education below degree level . |
| 5 | Soviet forces were present in the Kuril islands and south Sakhalin in addition to possessing a major base at Vladivostok . |
| 6 | The distribution of spontaneous amplitudes showed a major peak at 250μV , which is in reasonable agreement with the quantal size of the evoked response . |
| 7 | He had n't seen anyone carry on like this since going to watch the World Wrestling Federation with Gilbert Lewis , the man next door 's nephew , who had had a major seizure at the sight of a man called Hulk Hogan and had written to Robert afterwards to say that he ‘ had never expected to see anything like that in real life ’ . |
| 8 | The Peoples Democracy Platform , the reformers ' ally , wants to avoid a major split at all costs and are trying desperately to prevent a purge . |
| 9 | The maverick and often exasperating individualism which had served him well in battles against conservative-minded executives at the Mirror became a major liability at NoS , where the premium was on conformity to group objectives . |
| 10 | Is it an accident that Quebec 's separatism became a major force at the end of a decade during which the Quebec birthrate had virtually halved and ( for the first time ) fallen well below that of Canada ? |
| 11 | Mature students also make up the Evening Programme , which was given a major boost at the end of the year , by winning the highest award in the UK under the UFC 's scheme to promote flexible teaching . |
| 12 | Kozloduy reopened A major leak at the Sellafield nuclear plant in northwestern England in September [ see ED 63 ] was spotted only through " luck " after detector equipment failed to notice it . |
| 13 | The event was fixed up long ahead , and in the correspondence of the eminent delivering such a Discourse appears comparable in importance to giving a major address at a BAAS meeting . |
| 14 | One year later in July 1935 , he delivered a major speech at the First International Congress of Writers for the Defence of Culture , 9 and also played a significant role in orchestrating the behind-the-scenes collaboration between communist and non-communist contributors to the congress itself . |
| 15 | Let's have a Major miracle at Bart 's |
| 16 | Let's have a Major miracle at Bart 's |
| 17 | We only came fourth in the county championship last year and we lost a major final at Lords . ’ |
| 18 | Thirdly , the new technology is having a major impact at work , for a number of reasons . |
| 19 | The last decades of the nineteenth and the first decade of the twentieth centuries saw a major attempt at moral restructuring which had its effects both in legislation and in the tone of public life . |
| 20 | To Pelham can go the credit for preventing the Royalists from achieving a major conquest at the very commencement of the civil war , which might have won the war for the king . |
| 21 | But it presents a major difficulty at the outset to the writer of general history . |
| 22 | in 1971 she was the first contemporary artist to have a major retrospective at the Hayward Gallery , curated by Bryan Robertson . |
| 23 | Maskelyne took out patents on over forty commercial inventions , which included a cash register , patented in 1869 , which won a major award at the Paris exhibition , his 1889 typewriter , and his 1892 patent for a coin-operated lock for public lavatories , which was used in England until the 1950s . |
| 24 | Kirkley , who also discovered England stars Trevor Steven ( for Burnley ) and Peter Beardsley ( Carlisle ) , feared the worst when Keegan announced he was planning a major overhaul at the club . |