Example sentences of "[prep] [num] [prep] [art] major [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are the source of five of the major rivers of the Midlands . |
| 2 | I was also disappointed that no mention was made in the Queen 's Speech of one of the major consequences of the Gulf war — the plight of the Kurdish people throughout the region . |
| 3 | It has also been found to be a source of one of the major ingredients of the contraceptive pill . |
| 4 | He had no idea of the real identity of one of the major shareholders in the enterprise and he regarded Irina as a dedicated and skilful doctor . |
| 5 | At the time , I was particularly enthusiastic about the possibility of the involvement of one of the major neurotransmitters , acetylcholine , in memory formation , and had set up a simple , fast assay for the brain 's acetylcholine receptor ( called the muscarinic receptor , to distinguish it from other types of acetylcholine receptor ) . |
| 6 | Often the problem will be found to fall short of one of the major crimes . |
| 7 | In the view of one of the major contributors to the debate about when and how the concept should be deployed , however , this is not the result of semantic ambiguity . |
| 8 | In 1950 the company was wound up and its copyright taken over by the Britons Society , in a merger of racial nationalist and Die-hard conservative traditions — an ideological alliance of two of the major strands of political thought which later heavily influenced the ideas of the National Front . |
| 9 | The initial treatment of two of the major characters in the book , Bodser Brown and Audrey Parton , provides an interesting contrast . |
| 10 | Nicholas Payne is one of the inspirational architects of two of the major achievements of post-war British music — the Welsh National Opera and Opera North . |
| 11 | Tourism has developed with considerable speed into one of the major industries of the modern world , and much of its current shape and nature is the result of British innovation during the past 150 years . |
| 12 | At present MRI is not routinely used in clinical practice for assessing bone marrow malignancy , but as scanners become more widely available , there is little doubt that this field will expand into one of the major applications of MRI in oncology . |
| 13 | The Shah 's own household had provided him with one of the major problems of his reign . |
| 14 | Aside from dealing , as I have been doing , with one of the major subjects and themes of Cuzco painting , an inventory could be made of ways in which painters departed from European models , or from academic notions of excellence . |
| 15 | There be a clear place for each simple subject , which is regarded as falling within one of the major disciplines in the scheme . |
| 16 | In the wake of the successful Middlesbrough bid , TEC staff have taken a lead in one of the major strategies . |
| 17 | International stars in action in one of the major ladies tournaments in the run up to Wimbledon . |
| 18 | One of them , for example , that we 'll be looking next term , Freud 's biography , co-written with Bullitt , on Woodrow Wilson , was called , in one of the major reviews , when it finally came out in nineteen sixty seven , the kind of thing that gets psychoanalysis a bad name . |
| 19 | Oswiu had attempted a re-assimilation of the Mercians into the Humbrian federation from which Penda had earlier broken free , dispensing with a Mercian king and governing through his own agents in a dramatic extension of the powers of an overlord in one of the major kingdoms of the Anglo-Saxon heptarchy . |
| 20 | My ambition now is to play in one of the Major tournaments , such as The Open Championship . ’ |
| 21 | The statistical problems of estimation from one of the major challenges of the project . |
| 22 | Let's consider first of all the quantitative ground , erm and let's talk about one of the major transitions , one of the major origins about which we have some information , and that is the origin of the mammals from the reptiles. erm we have quite a lot of fossils erm erm from the permian up to the triassic erm of mammals and their reptilian ancestors , and we know pretty well what went on . |
| 23 | She saw it as one of the major manifestations of eighteenth-century philanthropic puritanism . |
| 24 | The greying of the British population is presented as one of the major challenges of the coming decades . |
| 25 | British Fashion Council Chairman Sir Ralph Halpern cites ‘ the limited horizons of our own-label manufacturers ’ as one of the major weaknesses . |
| 26 | Along with many of the other development corporations , the skills and experience in creating new communities have been dispersed — a fact that always amazes foreign visitors who look on British new towns as one of the major achievements of post-war planning anywhere in the world . |
| 27 | The town centre has been pedestrianised and acts as one of the major foci for walk trips . |
| 28 | Mr Topolski rightly takes great pride in his association with the Boat Race and regards the event as one of the major features of the sporting calendar . |
| 29 | Obviously it is sad to part with such a fine piece of craftsmanship , but it will be appreciated and well-looked after in the National Museums of Scotland , as one of the major items in the important spinning-wheel collections . |
| 30 | Mr Tabiner , 40 , sees the unitary issue as one of the major issues for the council over the next few years . |