Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] a major [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The effect is not dissimilar to that of seeing a major city from the air : zones and landmarks become topographically clear ; boundaries and scale are established . |
| 2 | The £970,000 ( $1,823,600 ) in profits raised by the van Gogh exhibition in 1990 will go towards financing a major exhibition on the Dutch artist Piet Mondrian fifty years after his death in 1944 and twenty-five years after the last retrospective , held at the Orangerie in Paris . |
| 3 | First is the possibility of inheriting a major gene for liability , but not developing the disease . |
| 4 | Denied the opportunity of supervising a major programme of construction in New York , where the Whitney Museum 's trustees have been unable to agree Michael Graves 's proposal for an extension , he is taking responsibility for the final stages of the conversion , now estimated to cost $35 million , of an ornamental warehouse located on Pittsburgh 's North Side , which will accommodate the museum . |
| 5 | Galileo was in the process of making a major contribution to the building of a new mechanics that was to prove capable of supporting detailed experimentation at a later stage . |
| 6 | He had forgotten the pleasure of playing a major part in a good play in the West End . |
| 7 | Wang and Chen , formerly editor and publisher respectively of the banned journal Economic Studies Weekly , had been arrested in October 1989 , and the government-controlled media had accused them of playing a major role in organizing the pro-democracy movement of April-June 1989 [ see pp. 36587 ; 36640-41 ; 36720-22 ] . |
| 8 | Hence the concept devised — and now enshrined in the local plan — for adding a major wing to the castle just across the moat , effectively doubling the size of the castle . |
| 9 | However , its broader significance was in marking a major step in Jordan 's attempt to return to the Arab mainstream in the aftermath of the Gulf war . |
| 10 | Those who were influenced by this belief refrained from setting out on a journey or from starting a major task on that day of the week . |
| 11 | To Pelham can go the credit for preventing the Royalists from achieving a major conquest at the very commencement of the civil war , which might have won the war for the king . |
| 12 | The process of centralization has involved governments in taking a major stake in investments which were previously foreign-owned . |
| 13 | Oxford 's experience in making a major shift of data-processing infrastructure in 1980–81 gives us some ‘ feel ’ for what would be involved . |
| 14 | He then turned to becoming a major builder of railways . |
| 15 | Soviet forces were present in the Kuril islands and south Sakhalin in addition to possessing a major base at Vladivostok . |
| 16 | The event was fixed up long ahead , and in the correspondence of the eminent delivering such a Discourse appears comparable in importance to giving a major address at a BAAS meeting . |
| 17 | Today there is scope for flair and creativity and for making a major contribution to AEA 's profitability . ’ |
| 18 | However he did not hold the Soviet Union , a long-time Syrian ally , responsible for the exodus , saying that the relationship between Syria and the Soviet Union was " as firm as ever " , but blaming the United States " for playing a major role in the realization of Israeli desires " . |
| 19 | In south Glasgow , two secondaries are beginning a rolling programme which is aimed at thwarting a major shake-up by Strathclyde . |
| 20 | In any case it soon demonstrated its reluctance to accept the discipline of the Unified National Leadership of the Uprising , by organizing a major strike on the twentieth anniversary of the arson attack on the al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem on 21 August . |
| 21 | The Law Society has responded to the introduction of Legal Aid franchising and the Society 's development of the Practice Management Standards by organising a major series of conferences during May , June and July 1993 . |