Example sentences of "[noun prp] [coord] [verb] a major [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Life on the wild side with David Bowie ’ , which is hardbacked this January and has a major serialisation deal with the Sunday Mirror . |
| 2 | The Dambusters of 617 squadron used Barnes Wallis 's amazing bouncing bomb to breach the water supplies of industrial Germany and score a major victory for the allies . |
| 3 | ‘ The loyalists got out to Jamaica Street and launched a major attack . |
| 4 | The famous bull Terling Marthus , with plenty of American blood in his ancestry , was imported from South Africa and played a major role in continuing the British breed 's development . |
| 5 | Meanwhile several hundred thousand foreign workeers , mostly Egyptians , Palestinians and East and South Asians , poured out into Jordan and threatened a major refugee crisis . |
| 6 | I imagined a morning 's stroll through quiet streets , gazing at patisseries , and then being able to nip up to Paris to visit the Musée d'Orsay or to see a major exhibition . |
| 7 | Duduc had been given lands at Congresbury and Banwell in Somerset and a monasterium in Gloucester before he was promoted to Wells , and another royal priest , Stigand , received the new church at Assandun and became a major figure under Edward the Confessor , eventually ( and illegally ) holding the great sees of Winchester and Canterbury in plurality . |
| 8 | The worst case was in July 1989 when an alternator set fell off at around 100mph at Harrow on the main line into Euston and caused a major derailment , fortunately with no more than a few injuries . |