Example sentences of "[verb] the [num ord] major [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On March 1 the Popular Liberation Army ( EPL ) , after 23 years of clandestine struggle , became the second major guerrilla group to lay down arms and enter political life as a party , formally changing its name to the Hope , Peace and Liberty party ( with the same Spanish acronym , EPL ) . |
| 2 | The city became the first major growth point of the Central Lowlands . |
| 3 | In a joint venture with Petrolimex , the Vietnamese state oil company , BP became the first major oil company to build a lubricants blending plant and to market lubricants in that country . |
| 4 | If the new arrangements are adequately funded and properly implemented , they will comprise the first major government initiative to foster care at home rather than in institutions . |
| 5 | ‘ But in 1973 came the first major oil shock . |
| 6 | In 1979 , however , came the second major oil price increase of the decade , followed by a general depression in the West . |
| 7 | Palaces were constructed in the ancient Austrasian royal centres , and Charles instigated the first major bridge building for centuries , with a structure 500 metres long at Mainz . |
| 8 | The conference , the first of its kind openly held in Iraq , brought together all major opposition parties including several based in Iran , Saudi Arabia and Syria which had boycotted the last major opposition conference held in Vienna in June [ see p. 38985 ] . |
| 9 | RUGBY League bosses had to overcome the first major fixture hurdle of the season last night . |