Example sentences of "[art] [noun prp] [verb] a major [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Catering for more than 100,000 students a year , the Millars had a major influence on the dissemination of socialist ideas . |
| 2 | Catering for more than 100,000 students a year , the Millars had a major influence on the dissemination of socialist ideas . |
| 3 | Soon afterwards the FMLN launched a major offensive in San Salvador on Nov. 11 [ ibid . ] . |
| 4 | The FMLN launched a major offensive on July 8 and took control of several towns in the northern province of Chalatenango before announcing a three-day truce in San Salvador to coincide with a Central American summit [ see p. 38336 ] . |
| 5 | That assurance , derived from the conviction that the WEA had a major role to play in society and that the Eastern District was successful in fulfilling it , was apparent in the paper , ‘ A Consideration of Aims and Purposes ’ , written by former treasurer Edward Miller in 1956 . |
| 6 | To commemorate the anniversary , the HGO organized a major press junket : critics from all around the opera world came to Houston to interview David Gockley and see three new productions by his company : the world première of a new opera by Robert Moran , the American première of Robert Wilson 's production of Parsifal , and a new version of André Grétry 's Zémire et Azor , billed as the first revival of the opera in the United States since 1794 . |
| 7 | This sophisticated report was used selectively by hard-liners in Washington to support their argument that the USSR posed a major threat to American interests . |
| 8 | The ERA represents a major shift of national direction on several fronts : it necessarily runs counter in the short term to structures , procedures and habits of mind which are deeply ingrained . |
| 9 | The chances of the IMF organizing a major recycling programme were poor . |
| 10 | On Dec. 14 the Riksdag approved a major austerity package of spending cuts in social services , defence and subsidies , and job cuts in the public sector . |
| 11 | The UK remains a major influence in the communications business and is the undoubted European leader in electronics information systems with 15% of world markets , second only to the US . |
| 12 | GENERAL MOTORS of the US may build new facilities in the UK to support a major increase in Jaguar production as part of its plan to take a 30 per cent stake in the luxury car maker . |
| 13 | It is arguable that the success of the EMS provided a major stimulus in the formulation and subsequent ratification of the Single European Act . |
| 14 | Congress ( I ) and its allies gained only enough seats to form a minority government ; the party performed particularly badly in its traditional northern " Hindi belt " heartlands , where the BJP made a major impact , eventually emerging as the main opposition party and gaining over one-fifth of the total seats . |
| 15 | At the same as it released its survey of the quality of waterways , the NRA published a major consultation paper on a new framework for setting statutory water quality objectives for all rivers , lakes , canals , estuaries and underground and coastal waters . |
| 16 | In the competition with other unionist groupings , the DUP had a major advantage in its cohesion . |
| 17 | In 1979 , the DUP received a major boost to its fortunes when it gained two more Westminster MPs . |
| 18 | On 23 February 1972 , the DUP took a major step towards establishing its own political identity when the four MPs crossed the floor of the house to take up the position left vacant by the withdrawal of the Catholic SDLP as Her Majesty 's Loyal Opposition at Stormont . |
| 19 | The fish of the Pantanal form a major source of food for the local population . |
| 20 | Not only has the DES funded a major evaluation programme of its own schemes , many of the local and regional initiatives are also instituting evaluation studies . |
| 21 | In late 1990 the SLORC initiated a major crackdown against opposition activities in order to force all parties to pledge allegiance to the decree [ see p. 37857 ] . |