Example sentences of "[verb] a major [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Cheap energy provided a major stimulus to economic development in Western Europe and Japan . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The OPEC petro-dollar surplus provided a major boost to the euro-dollar market 's growth in the 1970s . |
| 6 | This clearly provided a major incentive to the other two districts to achieve the development of new services . |
| 7 | COUNCILLORS keen to attract a major supermarket to Darlington have agreed to ‘ nudge ’ a Government minister to remind him to visit the town . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | However , although rivers and estuaries helped to form these beaches , they also provide a major threat to those who windsurf from them . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It shows to some extent the City was tied up with the erm issue of whether or not the structure plan should include a major exception to or indeed a strategic exception to policy . |
| 12 | As suggested in the previous chapter , only a few agreed with Churchill and with Eden , after his departure from the National government , that fascism posed a major threat to Britain . |
| 13 | If we pause for a moment and consider the place of the Neolithic revolution in the theory of human personality and society so far advanced in these pages we will be struck by the fact that the coming of cultivation posed a major threat to the psychological foundations of human society as they had evolved up to that point . |
| 14 | This sophisticated report was used selectively by hard-liners in Washington to support their argument that the USSR posed a major threat to American interests . |
| 15 | The proposals involved a major change to the presentation of financial performance both in the p&l account itself and for items passing through reserves . |
| 16 | A Radio 5 spokesperson said : ‘ The internal report made a number of suggestions for restructuring network radio and only one of them involved a major change to Radio 5 . |
| 17 | We ca n't really complain of being immediately affected by all the building , and we can still see Oban Bay and the ferries coming and going ( at a distance , it 's true ) , but it 's a bit of a shock to find a major extension to Oban on our doorstep , more or less . |
| 18 | This whole question is of importance not only because it was so central to Engels 's book but also because The Origin has rightly been considered a major contribution to the feminist tradition . |
| 19 | Security from the membership of a large group which has a major commitment to the growth of Name ; |
| 20 | These outbreaks of disorder have presented a major challenge to the Thatcher Government 's image as the guardian of public order . |
| 21 | The women 's movement has presented a major challenge to these assumptions , but the law , the media , the social services , education and many other facets of the state continue to reinforce this pervasive ideology . |
| 22 | In 1979 , the DUP received a major boost to its fortunes when it gained two more Westminster MPs . |
| 23 | The repression of the Stolypin years took as heavy a toll on the SRs as the SDs and the party suffered a major blow to both its morale and organization in 1908 when E.F . |
| 24 | MIDDLESBROUGH suffered a major blow to their promotion hopes when they spurned the chance to climb into third place . |
| 25 | But in so far as such voters may have their partisanship reinforced the trends do present a major hurdle to the election of a Labour government . |
| 26 | Such developments in adolescence can present a major challenge to the Catholic R.E . |
| 27 | Even a disastrous industrial slump would not now bring a major return to the countryside or substantial growth in the relative importance of agriculture . |
| 28 | Engineering director Alan Girven said : ‘ The Portrack extension will give a major boost to the cleaning of the river Tees and is part of our continuing commitment to improving the environment . |
| 29 | The transmission has undergone a major change to a four-speed unit , sourced from General Motors , and has been provided with the now-obligatory sports and economy programmes , plus a winter mode which allows the system to start off in second gear . |
| 30 | President Bush has made a major concession to industry over the implementation of the new Clean Air Act , overturning a decision by the Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) . |