Example sentences of "[verb] a [num ord] major [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To-day , the Stoddard Group encompasses nearly all of what there was in Scotland , with BMK adding a last major chapter . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Spencer waved vigorously to avert a second major accident and was eventually spotted and taken on board . |
| 5 | ANDES staged a second major strike in 1971 which lasted almost as long as the first and received extensive popular backing . |
| 6 | 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 . |