Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [verb] a major [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I later realised I had missed a major opportunity for helping change the situation . |
| 2 | How does she manage to go out on a training run the same day as she has run a major marathon when most other competitors are sitting with their feet up savouring the rest ? |
| 3 | You have made a major contribution to this production , Miss Grimsilk . |
| 4 | If you have to do a major shop without having had a meal , eat one of your snacks first . |
| 5 | We 've got a major problem in the Health Service . |
| 6 | Particularly as we , we 've had a major issue in our budget proposals to do specifically on this , this , but I think if we have good practice in Shropshire , we should be sort of er , shouting it from the rooftops really , as this is very good practice . |
| 7 | We have made a major contribution to the overall income of pensioners , while all that the Labour party has to offer is inflationary erosion of savings , a failure in home ownership and many other schemes that Labour has offered ; although such proposals make it seem that pensioners are better off , because they are offered with other features , in reality it is a small percentage rise . |
| 8 | And it did bring it home to me that we have got a major security problem in this building and in our other municipal buildings and quite frankly the ease with which anybody can come into this building at virtually any time of the day or evening astounds me . |
| 9 | ‘ We have had a major PR job on our hands with the schools . |
| 10 | If we have to make a major change , you will be offered compensation or a credit towards the cost of an alternative Summer 1990 holiday you choose from this brochure ( where available ) as follows . |
| 11 | But then why would Mao in nineteen forty five say that how that they 'd made a major concession to land to the tiller but that this is a correct one and they 're going to , that land reform has to be taken in stages and they 're going to first of all reduce rent and , I mean er |
| 12 | Aberdeen arrived back from Turin this afternoon , knowing they 'd taken a major step towards the quarter finals of the Cup Winners Cup . |
| 13 | The education authority says they 've launched a major recruitment drive but with the children due to start secondary school in September parents are now writing to local councils and M Ps . |
| 14 | General Motors of America believed they had made a major breakthrough into the British market in 1985 when they persuaded Foster Yeoman to buy four specially constructed 3,300hp locomotives to haul heavy stone traffic from their Merehead quarry to locations in the South East . |
| 15 | They have made a major contribution to staff development by means of short courses and modular programmes in various areas of management education and have developed the Certificate of Management Studies on a significant scale . |
| 16 | Although the peasantry have not often been prompted to rebellion , they have played a major role in a national revolution in two Latin American countries , Mexico and Cuba . |
| 17 | State family planning programmes were first introduced in 1968 and since the establishment of the National Population Commission in 1974 , they have become a major government priority . |
| 18 | They have taken a major stake in Crane Holdings . |
| 19 | He has played a major part in Australia 's last four Test victories . |
| 20 | More recently he has played a major role in persuading the Department of Employment to publish , in co-operation with the Institute , the information pack ‘ Making the cash flow ’ . |
| 21 | He has made a major contribution to public understanding of science through his books , lectures and broadcasts and through the Exploratory . |
| 22 | While it talks about rolling back the state , it has overseen a major increase in central government and police power . |
| 23 | of Britain 's exports — it has become a major factor in world trade and international power-broking . |
| 24 | The dependence of the individual on the group and on certain individuals within it has become a major theme in any analysis of Japanese society . |
| 25 | As part of the deal with Prue Leith , it has had a major facelift . |
| 26 | As the Party has grown it has been able to achieve representation in local government to the point of having controlling power on some councils , it has had a major voice in the first Assembly , the Convention , and the second Assembly , and it has elected representatives at Westminster and the European Parliament . |
| 27 | The controversy surrounding the overall record of the Thatcher administration suggests that it has had a major impact . |
| 28 | Although for many years retributivism was regarded ( at least in academic circles ) as outmoded and even atavistic , it has enjoyed a major revival in recent years , notably in the forms of the ‘ Justice Model ’ and ‘ law and order ideology ’ discussed later in this chapter . |
| 29 | I think they will find that most authorities will agree that it has proved a major obstacle but by no means the only one . |
| 30 | Unfortunately , it has taken a major tragedy to focus the minds of hauliers and their professional advisers sharply on these problem areas . |