Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] a major [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I imagined a morning 's stroll through quiet streets , gazing at patisseries , and then being able to nip up to Paris to visit the Musée d'Orsay or to see a major exhibition . |
| 2 | There will be some conflict over who owns or earns what between the 26th and 28th but , as June gets under way , your chances of clinching a deal or celebrating a major coup are extremely high . |
| 3 | The State Department believed that the US must either take on Britain 's role as protector of Near Eastern states from Russia , or witness a major advance for Communism . |
| 4 | No effort was made to quantify the need or to address a major issue with public sector legal services generally . |
| 5 | On the other hand he agreed that the Americans could not risk the destruction of their own forces in Britain by a pre-emptive Soviet strike or allow a major part of their bomber force to remain earth-bound while British ministers tried to make up their minds . |
| 6 | At the moment 18 of the 24 OECD countries are either planning or implementing a major shake-up . |
| 7 | A separate Harmsworth chain owned a morning and three evenings , and United Newspapers controlled or had a major interest in six . |
| 8 | But , if you want the cash buy a car or to make a major home improvement we have special tailormade schemes . |
| 9 | In the UK context the book more than fills a major gap , and will , I hope , be widely used . |
| 10 | Nothing on the exterior , however , prepared one for the stunning exhibition of color , texture , and mural art in the interior , features that constituted a major step in an architectural revolution that was most fully developed in the Century of Progress Exposition in Chicago ( 1933–74 ) . |
| 11 | Every professional experimental researcher , in whatever field , has their own private list of fluky data , things that did n't happen quite in accord with expectations and are likely to be due to uncontrolled circumstances — such as the dirty test tube — rather than signalling a major discovery . |
| 12 | Among the three models that incorporated a major locus ( q>0 ) the recessive model ( d=0 ) did not explain the observed segregation pattern as well as the dominant model ( χ 2 =2.42 for the recessive model , χ 2 =15.21 , p<0.005 for the dominant model ) . |
| 13 | Warwick 's chief stewardship in the duchy of Lancaster went not to Gloucester but to Hastings and the implication seems to be that at this stage the king was more concerned to reward his allies than to undertake a major reconstruction of royal authority in the north . |
| 14 | Warwick 's chief stewardship in the duchy of Lancaster went not to Gloucester but to Hastings and the implication seems to be that at this stage the king was more concerned to reward his allies than to undertake a major reconstruction of royal authority in the north . |
| 15 | Environmental policy : how to apply economic instruments , targets economic sectors that have a major impact on the environment , ie energy , transport , agriculture and industry and OECD believe it will prove useful to governments , business , industry and pressure groups concerned about the environment and sustainable economic development . |
| 16 | It provides technical advice and computing facilities , printed and photocopied research material , a specialised library , a seminar programme which attracts attendance from outside Cambridge as well as within , and plays a major role in sustaining the publication of Local Population Studies . |
| 17 | They found this to be so worthwhile that , on their return from exile , synagogue worship continued and became a major influence in religious life . |
| 18 | 2 The personal will of the King was no longer decisive in government , and the effective choice of the Prime Minister and his leading Cabinet colleagues passed out of his hands and became a major role for a powerful House of Commons . |
| 19 | Duduc had been given lands at Congresbury and Banwell in Somerset and a monasterium in Gloucester before he was promoted to Wells , and another royal priest , Stigand , received the new church at Assandun and became a major figure under Edward the Confessor , eventually ( and illegally ) holding the great sees of Winchester and Canterbury in plurality . |
| 20 | This is due largely to the fact that doctors were able to organize themselves into a professional group before the state intervened in medicine and became a major employer of medical practitioners . |
| 21 | To catalogue and prepare a major sale will take months . |
| 22 | Advocates of the view that primary education should be placed in the hands of the clergy failed to win their case , but priests were given entire control of religious instruction and assigned a major role in the new provincial schools councils . |
| 23 | VG LIMS is the first Laboratory Information Management Systems to be available on the RS60000 series of IMB computers and represents a major breakthrough in this field . |
| 24 | OPEC succeeded in imposing and maintaining a major increase : oil prices quadrupled during the winter of 1973–4 , raising the oil producers ' annual revenue by around $64 billion . |
| 25 | Today Roads and Traffic Minister , Christopher Chope opened the building and announced a major change to the driving test . |
| 26 | Many Brush-built Class 31s were equipped with ETH generators and given a major body overhaul , while some Class 47s were similarly treated . |
| 27 | The world 's dominant religions require members to worship at least once a week and to attend a major festival every three months . |
| 28 | 5.4.7 Both schools illustrate the fact that developments in Stage 3 of the project can be seen to be of potentially greater significance than the immediate effects of securing and expending a Major grant . |
| 29 | ‘ Life on the wild side with David Bowie ’ , which is hardbacked this January and has a major serialisation deal with the Sunday Mirror . |
| 30 | Dating from the 14th century , the house still retains its original great hall , chapel and crypt and has a major exhibition on conservation . |