Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] a major [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | However , the last few years have seen a major closure programme of deep mines in Wales as elsewhere . |
| 3 | Other ranges already established have had a major face lift . |
| 4 | ‘ We have had a major PR job on our hands with the schools . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Although Lendl finished a runner-up at Wimbledon in successive years in 1986–87 , the lawns of SW19 have proved a major stumbling block for the former world number one . |