Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [verb] a major [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do speak German , only it needs a major overhaul to set it right . ’ |
| 2 | Remy had only been in charge for a month and already he had a major scoop on his hands . |
| 3 | Whenever we suffer a major loss in our lives — such as the death of a loved one , divorce , redundancy , miscarriage , children leaving home , or the end of a love affair — we need to go through a period of mourning . |
| 4 | Two months later he convened a major conference in Jericho , choosing as its president the mayor of Hebron , Shaikh Muhammad Ali Ja'bari , his long standing supporter . |
| 5 | Yeah it 's just a small volume , you 've just got one channel for , yeah currently I 'm in pretty good shape but only a year ago I had a major bypass operation . |
| 6 | As in scene six , Anderson withholds information but there are important differences in his reasons for doing so here which implicate a major change of attitude . |
| 7 | Here we have a major difference from the historical pessimism of Adorno 's negative dialectics which in certain respects poststructuralism might appear to resemble . |
| 8 | Unfortunately we had a major breakdown with the car , and were stuck in a tiny village with our tent and no transport . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's my story , I lived it , ’ says Singleton , describing how he convinced a major studio to let an untried student director loose on a feature . |
| 10 | Harvey Madden of Yarm-based accountant John B. Taylor said the business was a profitable concern until the end of 1991 when it lost a major contract with Edinburgh Woollen Mills to east European competition . |
| 11 | Historically it played a major part against the Saracens , and the old buildings in Rhodes town and the Acropolis in Lindos still remain . |
| 12 | I , I think that 's again going to be part of it because that is certainly I mean a major reason why er a lot of peasant societies have large families , but we 'd still have to try and explain why it was that in this period , presumably so very much more of those children were surviving than had been the case earlier . |