Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] a major [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Radio 5 spokesperson said : ‘ The internal report made a number of suggestions for restructuring network radio and only one of them involved a major change to Radio 5 . |
| 2 | In fact , I made a major decision in '84 , and followed it through in '86 . |
| 3 | Worse , after trying one out in Dixons , I suffered a major attack of technofear . |
| 4 | Yeah it 's just a small volume , you 've just got one channel for , yeah currently I 'm in pretty good shape but only a year ago I had a major bypass operation . |
| 5 | She made a major contribution to Macmillan London , which she leaves as a profitable and successful part of the group . ’ |
| 6 | She has served as a student counsellor with the Education and Training Department and as deputy director of practice regulation she played a major role in setting up the new regulations for financial services business and audit . |
| 7 | Shortly afterwards , Sinitta and David split up and she signed a major recording deal which culminated in her single So Macho reaching number two in the charts , only missing the top spot because of Chris De Burgh 's Lady in Red . |
| 8 | On the twenty eight of September nineteen eighty eight she had a major operation on her left wrist . |
| 9 | Well you said that er as I recall , that if you had a major proposal say for example within the centre of Easingwold , |
| 10 | Q. You had a major role in the new Tencel plant in Mobile . |
| 11 | ‘ We made a major assault on German agriculture ’ was the laconic comment of J K Galbraith on the notorious inability of bomber crews to drop their loads anywhere near their urban target . |
| 12 | Our efforts last year were completed when we made a major presentation to the fund at a prize-giving in October . |
| 13 | ‘ We produced a major amount of paperwork . ’ |
| 14 | In the original report we mentioned a major licensing deal between SelecTronics and Berlitz and we can now see the concrete results of this in SelecTronics ' product range . |
| 15 | At the end of August , we suffered a major setback when the members of the Royal College of Nursing voted to reject our 7.5 per cent offer , despite their negotiators having initially accepted it . |
| 16 | We only came fourth in the county championship last year and we lost a major final at Lords . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ At Gateway we had a major concern over environmental issues and one of the areas of concern was exhaust emissions . |
| 18 | Unfortunately we had a major breakdown with the car , and were stuck in a tiny village with our tent and no transport . |
| 19 | There is no doubt that they played a major part in maintaining interest in abolition and emancipation through different phases of antislavery . |
| 20 | They joined a major label so that they could sell records throughout the world and then made the job harder by keeping their names off record sleeves and rejecting full page adverts for smaller ones . |
| 21 | At about 7.45 ( ship time ) , they heard a major explosion and a few minutes later a searing hot blast of gas roared over St Pierre and the ships lying off shore , capsizing the steam ship Grappler , and rolling the Roraima so severely that she lost all her masts and smokestacks . |
| 22 | Police say they smashed a major crime ring . |
| 23 | These changes are of considerable interest because they represented a major step towards the deregulation of the UK financial system — a process which is still continuing . |
| 24 | They had a major boiler breakdown last night . |
| 25 | They had a major impact on the community , and attracted authority , wealth and prestige . |
| 26 | They staged a major presentation of Naval policy , called Exercise ‘ Fairlead ’ , at the Royal Naval College , Greenwich , in May 1957 . |
| 27 | Alan was dominating in the air and solid and reliable in the tackle , so that he was a perfect defender for a team marshalled by Manager Dick Graham and he made a major contribution to Palace 's progress , deservedly becoming Palace 's captain while also earning England Under 23 honours . |
| 28 | Trials at his collieries of new ventilating methods , such as the fan and high-pressure steam jets , were widely discussed , and he made a major contribution to the most efficient method of mining coal simultaneously in adjacent seams . |
| 29 | The few surviving reports of cases heard in King 's Bench during the period he was a justice ( 1295–1316 ) do not suggest that he made a major contribution to the work of the court . |
| 30 | He made a major contribution to production methods in the railway 's workshops and to the use of improved metallurgy , in locomotive and rolling-stock construction , as well as being an advocate of the use of superheated steam and compound expansion to increase locomotive power and efficiency . |