Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] a major [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While at Environment he was burned in effigy by the people of Foxley Wood for approving a major housing development . |
| 2 | The effect is not dissimilar to that of seeing a major city from the air : zones and landmarks become topographically clear ; boundaries and scale are established . |
| 3 | The process of bringing a major investment project to fruition begins with the original concept or requirement which may be triggered by a company 's business plan , new legislation or perceived external opportunities and threats . |
| 4 | The £970,000 ( $1,823,600 ) in profits raised by the van Gogh exhibition in 1990 will go towards financing a major exhibition on the Dutch artist Piet Mondrian fifty years after his death in 1944 and twenty-five years after the last retrospective , held at the Orangerie in Paris . |
| 5 | Indeed the anonymous reviewer of the Pope and Weiner edition went on to propose that ‘ if the police staff college is to fulfil its task [ of producing a major project ] with any credibility , it must encourage its academic staff to go out into the field to study policing at first hand ’ . |
| 6 | MANSON 'S SOLO LP , featuring songs that he originally presented to Byrds producer Terry Melcher in the hope of landing a major record deal . |
| 7 | SUEDE , who are on the verge of signing a major recording deal with Sony , have announced details of their second single and three September dates . |
| 8 | Participants also discussed the possibility of launching a major research project on the theme , and made plans for a book on communication and human rights in Africa . |
| 9 | Participants also discussed the possibility of launching a major research project on the theme , and made plans for a book on communication and human rights in Africa . |
| 10 | He is also in the process of clinching a major record deal . |
| 11 | The victim had 15 stab wounds , including one to his neck which came within half a millimetre of severing a major blood vessel . |
| 12 | First is the possibility of inheriting a major gene for liability , but not developing the disease . |
| 13 | For most small newsagents , the prospect of defending a major libel case is frightening , and when Sir James Goldsmith threatened " Private Eye 's " distributors in this fashion , many of them caved in . |
| 14 | Denied the opportunity of supervising a major programme of construction in New York , where the Whitney Museum 's trustees have been unable to agree Michael Graves 's proposal for an extension , he is taking responsibility for the final stages of the conversion , now estimated to cost $35 million , of an ornamental warehouse located on Pittsburgh 's North Side , which will accommodate the museum . |
| 15 | Galileo was in the process of making a major contribution to the building of a new mechanics that was to prove capable of supporting detailed experimentation at a later stage . |
| 16 | In fact , ever since the beginning of the year you seem to have been toying with the idea of making a major career move or change of residence and what transpires sometimes between October 29 and November 3 should enable you to rebuild and reshape your life — and the past with all its traumas and dramas will be placed in their true perspective , if not forgotten altogether . |
| 17 | ONE OF Britain 's most successful offshore construction yards is in with a good chance of winning a major order that could secure its future for a year . |
| 18 | He had forgotten the pleasure of playing a major part in a good play in the West End . |
| 19 | Wang and Chen , formerly editor and publisher respectively of the banned journal Economic Studies Weekly , had been arrested in October 1989 , and the government-controlled media had accused them of playing a major role in organizing the pro-democracy movement of April-June 1989 [ see pp. 36587 ; 36640-41 ; 36720-22 ] . |
| 20 | Hallin touted the band around during 1987 in the hope of finding a major deal but few were positively interested . |
| 21 | Hence the concept devised — and now enshrined in the local plan — for adding a major wing to the castle just across the moat , effectively doubling the size of the castle . |
| 22 | Because this new pond is interconnected with the main one , adding the water was like doing a major water change . |
| 23 | Unlike conquering a major peak , it is an inescapable truth that crevasses are a negative factor in the mountains , the avoidance of which is totally lacking in glamour or dinner party kudos . |
| 24 | A NORTH-EAST sea captain awaiting trial charged with causing a major oil spillage died after a sustained drinking binge , an inquest heard . |
| 25 | Talks between Bangladesh and Myanma during January and February had yielded few results and so in March the Bangladesh government launched a diplomatic offensive in an attempt at spurring the international community into preventing a major tragedy occurring . |
| 26 | However , its broader significance was in marking a major step in Jordan 's attempt to return to the Arab mainstream in the aftermath of the Gulf war . |
| 27 | After their years of isolation , the South African Broadcasting Corporation may not be fully aware of the problems involved in televising a major sporting event . |
| 28 | Those who were influenced by this belief refrained from setting out on a journey or from starting a major task on that day of the week . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Examination of the condition of the meshes in the sieve nest should always be carried out before undertaking a major sieving programme . |