Example sentences of "[noun] and [verb] a major [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In subsequent races this will be on their mind and create a major obstacle to future success . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ Life on the wild side with David Bowie ’ , which is hardbacked this January and has a major serialisation deal with the Sunday Mirror . |
| 4 | Specific individuals need to be identified within each agency who are willing , competent and have the resources to make their work with child abuse and neglect a major commitment . |
| 5 | It will now be for the developers , the financial institutions and others in the private sector to use their expertise and to play a major role in realising the full potential of available unused public sector land . |
| 6 | The Dambusters of 617 squadron used Barnes Wallis 's amazing bouncing bomb to breach the water supplies of industrial Germany and score a major victory for the allies . |
| 7 | Dating from the 14th century , the house still retains its original great hall , chapel and crypt and has a major exhibition on conservation . |
| 8 | Today Roads and Traffic Minister , Christopher Chope opened the building and announced a major change to the driving test . |
| 9 | In 1962 he was appointed clinical subdean and played a major part in revising the medical curriculum . |
| 10 | ‘ The loyalists got out to Jamaica Street and launched a major attack . |
| 11 | Having ‘ given his best ’ to the centre for four years and taken a major role in setting it up , he obviously felt ‘ very disappointed ’ he would n't be part of its new phase . |
| 12 | The famous bull Terling Marthus , with plenty of American blood in his ancestry , was imported from South Africa and played a major role in continuing the British breed 's development . |
| 13 | Brothers Peter and Dave Grundy from Willaston should rename their boat ‘ Mr Cool ’ after winning the first day and taking a major prize on the second day at Wexford Harbour . |
| 14 | Many Brush-built Class 31s were equipped with ETH generators and given a major body overhaul , while some Class 47s were similarly treated . |
| 15 | Meanwhile several hundred thousand foreign workeers , mostly Egyptians , Palestinians and East and South Asians , poured out into Jordan and threatened a major refugee crisis . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The Government are fully committed to placing the emphasis on employment-lead standards of competence and giving a major role to industry lead bodies both in the development of competence based occupational standards and in ‘ ownership ’ of them . ’ |
| 18 | The world 's dominant religions require members to worship at least once a week and to attend a major festival every three months . |
| 19 | Under his premiership Israel signed a peace treaty with Egypt , ceded the Sinai peninsula and launched a major invasion of Lebanon . |
| 20 | The USA and Canada had sought a commitment to dismantle all agricultural subsidies over the next 10 years on the grounds that such subsidies distorted world trade and formed a major impediment to the further liberalization of world trade being currently negotiated under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) within the " Uruguay Round " [ see pp. 37227-28 ] . |
| 21 | RUSSIA has played down hopes that it is to host a superpower summit and sign a major disarmament treaty with the United States . |
| 22 | I was thinking for instance in the context of Sri Lanka , where I was born , that there is n't a straight forward national liberation struggle , there are lots of problems such as militarism which the women 's movement has taken on in various ways and played a major part in combating . |
| 23 | Example — a vessel insured for $1,500 and following a major casualty it becomes clear that it can not be repaired for less than $1,700 . |
| 24 | Involvement of the teachers : In successful schools , the teachers were involved in curriculum planning and played a major role in developing their own curriculum guidelines . |
| 25 | Addressing senior personnel from the industry as well as representatives from various financial institutions , described how the company had become a leading European Private Label supplier and secured a major share of the French breakfast cereal market . |
| 26 | Would the sound of that diabolical symphonic flush carry that diabolical symphonic flush carry into the Abbey and create a major embarrassment for the British Monarchy ? |
| 27 | Free radicals — species with one or more unpaired electrons — are very important in many areas of chemistry ; from initiating the formation of polythene and playing a major role in the chemistry of the Earth 's atmosphere to causing the deterioration of food . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | It helped to bring the system into disrepute and played a major part in the eventual breakdown of the Plowden structure . |
| 30 | It is true that the oil crisis dealt an important blow to the functioning of the system and had a major impact on the form and timing of the crisis — constituting a trigger for the crash which separates the period of overheating from the subsequent one of mass unemployment and stagnation . |