Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [verb] a major [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In subsequent races this will be on their mind and create a major obstacle to future success . |
| 2 | Specific individuals need to be identified within each agency who are willing , competent and have the resources to make their work with child abuse and neglect a major commitment . |
| 3 | It will now be for the developers , the financial institutions and others in the private sector to use their expertise and to play a major role in realising the full potential of available unused public sector land . |
| 4 | Dating from the 14th century , the house still retains its original great hall , chapel and crypt and has a major exhibition on conservation . |
| 5 | Today Roads and Traffic Minister , Christopher Chope opened the building and announced a major change to the driving test . |
| 6 | In 1962 he was appointed clinical subdean and played a major part in revising the medical curriculum . |
| 7 | Brothers Peter and Dave Grundy from Willaston should rename their boat ‘ Mr Cool ’ after winning the first day and taking a major prize on the second day at Wexford Harbour . |
| 8 | Advocates of the view that primary education should be placed in the hands of the clergy failed to win their case , but priests were given entire control of religious instruction and assigned a major role in the new provincial schools councils . |
| 9 | The Government are fully committed to placing the emphasis on employment-lead standards of competence and giving a major role to industry lead bodies both in the development of competence based occupational standards and in ‘ ownership ’ of them . ’ |
| 10 | The world 's dominant religions require members to worship at least once a week and to attend a major festival every three months . |
| 11 | Under his premiership Israel signed a peace treaty with Egypt , ceded the Sinai peninsula and launched a major invasion of Lebanon . |
| 12 | The USA and Canada had sought a commitment to dismantle all agricultural subsidies over the next 10 years on the grounds that such subsidies distorted world trade and formed a major impediment to the further liberalization of world trade being currently negotiated under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) within the " Uruguay Round " [ see pp. 37227-28 ] . |
| 13 | RUSSIA has played down hopes that it is to host a superpower summit and sign a major disarmament treaty with the United States . |
| 14 | Involvement of the teachers : In successful schools , the teachers were involved in curriculum planning and played a major role in developing their own curriculum guidelines . |
| 15 | Addressing senior personnel from the industry as well as representatives from various financial institutions , described how the company had become a leading European Private Label supplier and secured a major share of the French breakfast cereal market . |
| 16 | Would the sound of that diabolical symphonic flush carry that diabolical symphonic flush carry into the Abbey and create a major embarrassment for the British Monarchy ? |
| 17 | Free radicals — species with one or more unpaired electrons — are very important in many areas of chemistry ; from initiating the formation of polythene and playing a major role in the chemistry of the Earth 's atmosphere to causing the deterioration of food . |
| 18 | It helped to bring the system into disrepute and played a major part in the eventual breakdown of the Plowden structure . |
| 19 | It is true that the oil crisis dealt an important blow to the functioning of the system and had a major impact on the form and timing of the crisis — constituting a trigger for the crash which separates the period of overheating from the subsequent one of mass unemployment and stagnation . |
| 20 | Hurricane damage through high winds and tidal surges causes an immense amount of destruction and poses a major threat to many coastal communities in the USA . |
| 21 | This is due largely to the fact that doctors were able to organize themselves into a professional group before the state intervened in medicine and became a major employer of medical practitioners . |
| 22 | Kentish archers were considered among the finest in the country and it is not unlikely that archers from Halling were present with Lord Cobham during the Hundred Years War and also at Agincourt , where the archers of Kent were in the fore front and played a major part in the defeat of the French Cavalry . |
| 23 | Even if FMS does not prove to be the critical target gene , characterisation of the microdeletions should considerably reduce the critical deleted region and provide a major step to identifying the real target gene . |