Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] 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 | I , I think that 's again going to be part of it because that is certainly I mean a major reason why er a lot of peasant societies have large families , but we 'd still have to try and explain why it was that in this period , presumably so very much more of those children were surviving than had been the case earlier . |
| 4 | Worse , after trying one out in Dixons , I suffered a major attack of technofear . |
| 5 | Incidentally , I foresee a major problem looming next season . |
| 6 | Of course , if two members of staff happen to fall in love and decide to marry , it would be churlish to be apportioning blame ; but what I find a major irritation are those persons — and housekeepers are particularly guilty here — who have no genuine commitment to their profession and who are essentially going from post to post looking for romance . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She made a major contribution to Macmillan London , which she leaves as a profitable and successful part of the group . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Er there were a couple of times when the police were called and actually turned up , and and what people believed would have been a minor fight , then developed into a you know a major skirmish . |
| 12 | If you visit a major cat show today you will find that there are about fifty breeds on display there , in addition to the many different colour forms and ‘ sub-breeds ’ , all minor variations of well-established breeds , which need not concern us here . |
| 13 | On the twenty eight of September nineteen eighty eight she had a major operation on her left wrist . |
| 14 | Well you said that er as I recall , that if you had a major proposal say for example within the centre of Easingwold , |
| 15 | Q. You had a major role in the new Tencel plant in Mobile . |
| 16 | By avoiding simplistic assumptions about the united male medical profession manipulating supine female patients , she makes a major contribution to our understanding of a complex part of medical history . |
| 17 | If you have a major credit card you can even order your tickets by phone . |
| 18 | In addition to that you get depreciation of one thousand one hundred and forty four pound per year which , by my reckoning is ninety five pound a month in addition to that , as a Methodist Minister you get a standing charge of five hundred and twenty eight pound per year which is forty four pound pe er , per month and then you also through i in the year if you have a major repair needed on your car you get a hundred and eight pound now , if in fact , I had , I have a Vauxhall Nova , and let me take these figures as you are at twenty four P a mile , or twenty four point five P a mile and if that 's all we are recommended , recommending , in other words , there 's no lump sum at all er , that would mean that I would be getting forty nine pound but Methodist , this colleague in Llandudno if he did |
| 19 | Whenever we suffer a major loss in our lives — such as the death of a loved one , divorce , redundancy , miscarriage , children leaving home , or the end of a love affair — we need to go through a period of mourning . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . |
| 21 | Our efforts last year were completed when we made a major presentation to the fund at a prize-giving in October . |
| 22 | ‘ We produced a major amount of paperwork . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | We want a major presence that corresponds to the size of that market . ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | We consider a major change to be any of the following changes made before the day of departure : change of departure airport , resort area , outward or return time of departure by more than 12 hours , or substitution of the accommodation you have booked with one of a lower price or official classification . |
| 27 | To consider such questions , we present a major season spanning thirty years of French cinema from the nouvelle vague to the present day . |
| 28 | We only came fourth in the county championship last year and we lost a major final at Lords . ’ |
| 29 | One statement to which we take a major issue is that Dista Products failed to inform the Committee on Safety of Medicines about the way the drug behaved in the body of certain very elderly patients and that thus information was withheld from doctors for a period of 14 months from June 1981 . |
| 30 | ‘ At Gateway we had a major concern over environmental issues and one of the areas of concern was exhaust emissions . |