Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] a major [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wimpey joined forces with Taylor Woodrow and Amec to form the Kuwaiti British Fire Group and the consortium successfully completed a major contract for damage assessment and subsequent refurbishment of two oil fields . |
| 2 | As demand for food rose , the United States suddenly became a major exporter of agricultural goods , the surplus on that account rising from $1½ billion in 1972 to $10½ billion in 1974 . |
| 3 | They had come together to attend a major seminar on the development of an independent and pluralistic African press , held in Windhoek , Namibia , 29 April — 5 May . |
| 4 | In its later stages , the conflict settled around two issues : ( a ) official information , which in modern conditions was of direct political interest to the State ; and ( b ) obscenity , which characteristically only became a major object of legislation in the nineteenth century , with the development of an effective popular market . |
| 5 | I am particularly pleased to see present my hon. Friend the Member for Windsor and Maidenhead ( Sir A. Glyn ) , who obviously has a major interest in this matter . |
| 6 | The international system not only has a major division between communist and capitalist states but also deeper cultural divisions between what are usually termed the First and Third worlds . |
| 7 | I therefore decided to strengthen and redeploy the AIB team in preparation for what would obviously become a major task for the next eighteen months or so . |
| 8 | Since labour costs account for around 60 per cent of operating costs in BR and RENFE , these pressures for financial stringency and cost cutting have naturally had a major impact on industrial relations in the two enterprises as later chapters will show . |
| 9 | Profits are well up , cost reduction obviously played a major part in this and the F T group is er , fifty five percent up on last year and this is against the background of a five percent drop in advertisement volume and we have an eleven percent drop in advertisement volume from the continent of Europe erm , which of course does n't affect other national newspapers . |
| 10 | This will enable users to transfer applications developed on one machine to another without fear of mismatches in timing — so removing a major headache for developers . |
| 11 | It was said of Brent under the Labour council : ’ If you have a council that is as monumentally incompetent as Brent 's has been in the last few years , it rightly gets a major vote of censure from the public . ’ |
| 12 | Recent developments in the area of financial services will obviously have a major impact on this . |
| 13 | Although there was a significant reduction in ipsilateral neurological events in the group who had endarterectomy , these events included transient monocular blindness and transient ischaemic attacks , which do not necessarily have a major impact on patients ' wellbeing . |
| 14 | As the University 's commercial arm , UnivEd not only makes a major contribution to the University 's finances , but also enhances Edinburgh 's position as an international centre of excellence in teaching and research . |
| 15 | He knows that that would not only cause a major upheaval in local government but would be followed shortly afterwards by other proposals . |
| 16 | SORAFOM became OCORA and provided technical assistance to Francophone stations , for which it long remained a major source of material . |
| 17 | Clarke thereby played a major part in the thrust towards international standardization that became so important in late nineteenth-century European science . |
| 18 | Single events rarely cause a major restructuring of the child 's personality : they occur in the context of a continuous interaction with the environment which itself is not static and which may modify , strengthen or weaken the consequences of what has happened already . |
| 19 | These could be designed so that A2 versions could be sold through our retail outlets to visitors ( in a similar way to exhibition posters ) thus recovering a major part of the production and printing costs . |
| 20 | ( 5 ) Bleasdale Computers ( Harvard OTC ) " The company has just arranged a major deal with British Telecom who will market and supply their computers . |
| 21 | Edinburgh 's Douglas Watson , who has already won a major award in the US for his three dimensional illustration work has created his study from a clay panel . |
| 22 | He said : ‘ Fortex already has a major presence in the UK through Towers and Co , which is the company 's official importer of chilled and frozen lamb into the UK . |
| 23 | This suggests that during a fluent phase a speaker has already done a major part of the planning before beginning to speak a clause . |
| 24 | The issue had already had a major impact during the election campaign , when Wolfgang Schnur , a human rights lawyer in Rostock and the leader of Democratic Awakening , resigned his post on March 14 after admitting that he had worked for the Stasi . |
| 25 | The fact that such technology has already had a major impact upon the leisure industry should not fill us with wild joy . |
| 26 | After 1534 , Henry began to issue ecclesiastical injunctions on his own authority ; in 1535 his secretary of state , Thomas Cromwell , who had already played a major role in engineering the break with Rome , was appointed vicegerent or vicar-general of the church . |
| 27 | Having gained that second term , Lange appointed himself Minister of Education , swapping his foreign affairs portfolio with Russell Marshall , thus signalling a major initiative in education reform . |
| 28 | ‘ Reduction in the perceived peace and tranquillity will reduce the attractiveness at Tatton to 80pc of its visitors , thus having a major effect on visitor income and support for the estate . ’ |
| 29 | We can respond to this in two ways , either by abandoning studies on non-human animals and thus losing a major source of evidence , or by finding ways of making legitimate cross-species extrapolations . |
| 30 | ‘ Well , 14/ 20th Hussars came back off exercise with a lot of dead equipment and 2nd Field Regiment has just finished a major inspection in preparation for firing camp starting in three weeks . |