Example sentences of "[verb] a [adj] major [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were times when every man of this team would come together to work a single major warren system which might extend over as much as 50 or 60 acres . |
| 2 | To remedy this area of ignorance , the OECD sponsored a new major study on Soviet Science Policy , employing Mike Berry and myself under Bob Davies ' direction . |
| 3 | OSSIA TRILLING 's obituary of Mark Dignam ( 5 October ) mentions that the actor played a dozen major Shakespeare parts at Stratford in the late 1950s , writes Giles Gordon . |
| 4 | To-day , the Stoddard Group encompasses nearly all of what there was in Scotland , with BMK adding a last major chapter . |
| 5 | WHILE the Ministry of Defence may be looking at major cut-backs in all three forces , the RAF Museum ( RAFM ) has announced its own form of Options for Change that will see a welcome major change in the aircraft exhibits at Hendon . |
| 6 | In order to assess the redistributive impact of a particular policy , a comparison has to be made between the situation with the tax or expenditure in existence and that without , and this introduces a second major class of issues . |
| 7 | The debate over the family , its constitution and its role , forms a second major focus of organisations such as the NVALA , the NFoL and the Responsible Society . |
| 8 | Spencer waved vigorously to avert a second major accident and was eventually spotted and taken on board . |
| 9 | This constituted a further major dislocation of the northern Anglian hegemony and seriously destabilized the dynastic situation within Deira and Bernicia . |
| 10 | But that 's not why I came across — Staff Sergeant MacDonald has found a potential major problem … . ’ |
| 11 | Its accelerated transfer of four Iroquois helicopters to the PNG Defence Force in mid-1989 represented a major contribution to the government 's campaign against the BRA , as did a subsequent major shipment of small arms and ammunition . |
| 12 | President , Congress , most councils may well work to the good effect in Germany , France and other E C countries , but with the Tory government in Britain it would be foolish to believe the trade union would play a great major role in those works councils . |
| 13 | ANDES staged a second major strike in 1971 which lasted almost as long as the first and received extensive popular backing . |
| 14 | Let us return to the paper by Bolinger ( 1967 ) already discussed in Chapter 3 , in which he makes a second major claim ( that there is a fundamental division among adjectives between those which , as he sees it , qualify the referent of the noun to which they are attached , and those which qualify its sense . |
| 15 | They found that a severe event was of most aetiological significance if it threatened a role , person or idea to which a woman was particularly committed ( established in an interview one year before ) or if it matched a long-standing major difficulty in the woman 's life . |