Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun sg] [verb] a major [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IRISH speed queens Stephanie McCann and Vivienne McGoldrick spearhead a determined bid by the Lisburn club to score a major cross channel victory today in the GRE Plate finals in Bedford . |
| 2 | There remained uncertainty as to whether the warring militias , particularly the forces led by Gen. Mohammed Farah Aydid , would respect the presence of a UN force to oversee a major relief operation , as had been proposed since April ( but still not finally approved ) . |
| 3 | The arrival of a new and major market in the Lancaster area represents a major opportunity for local firms . |
| 4 | The current edition of the European Parliament — EP News contains a major article headed ’ Environment Commissioner defends action ’ . |
| 5 | STANSTED Airport suffered a major blow last night with confirmation that its trans-Atlantic service is to be axed next month . |
| 6 | The redevelopment of Piccadilly Circus became a major cause célèbre in the 1950s and 1960s ( Cherry and Penny , 1986 ) . |
| 7 | The F T Associates which is er includes the Economist in Spain was up a lot and Westminster Press was er was down , but of course Westminster Press took a major redundancy charge , they were also bringing on a new plant at Brighton and therefore running two plants simultaneously which is very costly er and they launched on Sunday . |
| 8 | Steve Douglas 's Fanzine ‘ Go for It ’ started this year , and from a piece of folded photocopied paper , it eventually went on to become a printed glossy skate mag covering much of the skate scene at the time and the next few years for which the Farnborough scene played a major part if not the main part . |
| 9 | The initial drive for a single European market came largely from the Thatcher government following a major policy speech at Chatham House in March 1984 by Sir Geoffrey Howe , the then Foreign Secretary . |
| 10 | In August 1990 the sanctions imposed on Iraq as a result of the Gulf crisis triggered a major debt crisis at Goodman International , the Irish conglomerate controlled by Larry Goodman which was Europe 's largest meat processing concern , accounting for around 40 per cent of Ireland 's cattle processing industry . |
| 11 | Despite the Gulf War dealing a major blow to the Japanese hotel industry , new hotel construction has not been affected much by short-term influence . |
| 12 | Regarding the Hadley cell and monsoon conjectures , current research on Milankovitch forcing indicates a major role of feedbacks on the fast-response atmospheric variables ( wind , temperature , moisture , snow and sea ice , clouds ) from slowly-responding variables ( ice volume , ocean currents , CO 2 ) . |
| 13 | Despite an agreement reached in late August that files of the East German State Security police ( " Stasi " ) would remain in East Germany after unification [ see p. 37661 ] , the question in particular of MPs ' and ministers ' alleged Stasi involvement remained a major issue . |
| 14 | james Alt argues that the increase in supply of North Sea oil provided a major boost for sterling which in turn resulted in a loss of competitiveness for British goods and a consequent loss of manufacturing goods and employment . |