Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] a major [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dry deposition may make a major contribution to the acidity problem . |
| 2 | I believe we should all warmly welcome this opportunity to debate the role of audit ; it gives the users of audit services the opportunity to have their say and it should make a major contribution to dealing with the expectation gap . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | With the ageing of the original relay control system , the performance of the lifts was becoming progressively less satisfactory and therefore it was decided that the installation should undergo a major modernisation . |
| 5 | But though the camera may be at gut level , a cerebral decision has placed it there , and it is characteristic of Greenaway that he should stylise a major element of his film in this way . |
| 6 | The study should provide a major contribution to our knowledge of the English Police . |
| 7 | Its gains in the South — where it must score a major breakthrough to obtain a national majority — were mainly the result of a protest vote against the two other parties . |
| 8 | This fact , linked to the evidence that a high proportion of defective issues are suffering from use-related types of damage — such as detached boards and loose pages — points very strongly to the conclusion that the routine vetting of material supplied to readers should have a major role to play in the selection of items for repair and refurbishment . |
| 9 | This must have a major part to play in the increasing mindless violence of young people , imitating what they have been encouraged to believe is ‘ entertainment ’ , namely torture , murder and cannibalism . |
| 10 | They must play a major part in developing , using and controlling the new technology , not for their own benefit , but for the sake of the children they teach . |
| 11 | Politics must play a major role in any decision — but how long can the organisers afford to defer their verdict on whether the country is stable enough to stage World Cup 1995 ? |
| 12 | Your Viennese background must play a major role here too . |
| 13 | There was widespread scepticism about whether private financial institutions could successfully channel funds from lenders to borrowers , and general agreement that the IMF should play a major role . |
| 14 | Thus , while Sharpe , White , and Bernard do not believe that the Arminians should be blamed for causing the civil war of the 1640s , Tyacke , John Morrill , and other historians have conversely argued that Laud and his fellow prelates should bear a major part of the responsibility for provoking what they regard as ‘ England 's wars of religion ’ . |
| 15 | The scale of the venture means that a nation 's health service must accept a major responsibility for the work . |
| 16 | Only such a crisis , of almost inconceivably devastating proportions — such as might follow a major war — could so undermine and destroy the existing pluralist political structures that a new form of fascist-style charismatic leadership might appear to sizeable proportions of the population to be a viable and attractive solution . |
| 17 | Once this is resolved it might become a major source of LDC finance in the future . |
| 18 | This is the second or third closure announced in recent times — it 'll have a major impact . |
| 19 | Although Levi promised to work to unite the party " in order to heal the wound " , commentators claimed that the affair had exposed deep divisions in the party which might have a major impact on the June 23 general election . |
| 20 | He asked to speak confidentially with Ron Bullough , the Chief Scientist of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority ( UKAEA ) whose office is at Harwell , on the grounds that he ( Fleischmann ) had something ‘ very important that might require a major decision ’ . |
| 21 | Now , it 's obviously a bit of a gamble , we might give them some money , we might not get anything from it , but we might get a major feature film , or a major television series , which would be very worthwhile indeed . |
| 22 | This may entail a major upheaval , but it will be more than compensated for later this month . |
| 23 | WIRRAL Safer City Project may become a major casualty of financial cutbacks following withdrawal of Home Office funding next spring . |
| 24 | A SALT-LOVING bacterium may become a major ally in the effort to develop new drugs . |
| 25 | Fortunately , overseas investors perceive the UK as an area of political stability ; it seems that in spite of the Danish referendum EC monetary convergence may continue , so the UK could remain a major beneficiary of inward capital flows . |
| 26 | They are already in use in Australia , America , Brazil and Tanzania , and could make a major contribution to managing insect-borne diseases and crop pests , according to Dr Janet Hemingway of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine . |
| 27 | The establishment now of a co-ordinated network of Regional INSET ( in-service training ) offices , or officers , with the primary function of advising and promoting self help , would be timely , in view of the stimulation to training that has been engendered by the introduction of the pre-licentiate scheme , and could make a major contribution towards combating the inefficient and inequitable distribution of training . |
| 28 | Such a double-fisted attack has so far posed no extraordinary problems for librarians , but a series of events over the last few years illustrates that the issue of the law and censorship could become a major problem in the management of libraries . |
| 29 | Major growth : Shah thinks this could become a major growth area . |
| 30 | In New Zealand a natural gas to petrol plant should begin production by 1985 while Australia could become a major source of synfuels by the end of the century . |