Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] a major [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Keating announced a major reshuffle of the Cabinet on Dec. 27 , which included the appointment as Treasurer of John Dawkins , one of Keating 's most staunch supporters in his leadership struggle with Hawke . |
| 2 | Neville Chamberlain , for instance , expressed fears that British and imperial interests might suffer if the United States became a major player in world affairs . |
| 3 | Rex made a major sigh . |
| 4 | INDONESIA Through its interest in the Sanga Sanga PSC. , LASMO has a major position in the growing Pacific rim LNG market . |
| 5 | As the Association 's general secretary , David played a major role in the many developments which took place during the period . |
| 6 | One of the kindest and most popular members of the board , which he served with distinction for some 20 years , Mr Scott played a major part in the gradual development of Goodison Park into one of the country 's finest grounds , and also led the battle against hooliganism from the front . |
| 7 | To commemorate the anniversary , the HGO organized a major press junket : critics from all around the opera world came to Houston to interview David Gockley and see three new productions by his company : the world première of a new opera by Robert Moran , the American première of Robert Wilson 's production of Parsifal , and a new version of André Grétry 's Zémire et Azor , billed as the first revival of the opera in the United States since 1794 . |
| 8 | Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze delivers a major speech on the Middle East in Cairo during a tour of the region . |
| 9 | GRE forms a major component in the formula for determining the actual resource allocation , or the Block Grant ( £8.5 milliards in England for 1985/6 ) , which consists of the transfer from Central Government to augment the income that is derived from property rates . |
| 10 | The United States established a major lead over both Japan and Europe . |
| 11 | Chapman 's prediction that it would be five years before Arsenal won a major honour was not only , with hindsight , amazingly accurate ; it was also meant to be realistic . |
| 12 | From then on , the references to pre-capitalist systems become more and more numerous in the work of Marx and Engels , but it was really from 1880 on , when Marx was shown the work of the American anthropologist Lewis Henry Morgan that he and Engels gave a major place to the study of tribal societies . |
| 13 | On Nov. 5 Chiluba launched a major reorganization of both the civil service and parastatal organizations . |
| 14 | That assurance , derived from the conviction that the WEA had a major role to play in society and that the Eastern District was successful in fulfilling it , was apparent in the paper , ‘ A Consideration of Aims and Purposes ’ , written by former treasurer Edward Miller in 1956 . |
| 15 | Georg Kreisel gained a Major scholarship to Trinity College from Dudley Grammar School in 1941 . |
| 16 | In practice , the MMC has sometimes reported against foreign takeovers as contrary to the public interest , but the reasoning has been other than a desire to stifle competition ( e.g. the report on Government of Kuwait/British Petroleum , 1988 , which decided that it was contrary to the public interest for the Government of Kuwait to gain a major shareholding in BP ) . |
| 17 | No doubt the laying of the artificial grass pitch at Newry played a major part in getting their fixtures cleared up early . |
| 18 | MIDDLESBROUGH suffered a major blow to their promotion hopes when they spurned the chance to climb into third place . |
| 19 | As the largest provider of visit attractions in Scotland , Historic Scotland plays a major role in the Scottish tourism industry . |
| 20 | UNESCO experienced a major crisis in March when 800 employees stopped work for two hours in protest against a series of organizational changes ordered by the Director-General , Federico Mayor Zaragoza [ see p. 37335 ] . |
| 21 | In the South-west , Exeter became a major centre of cloth exports from the 1490s , and by the early sixteenth century some of the smaller Devon towns were also active in the trade , this perhaps contributing to the later growth of West Country shipping activity . |
| 22 | On Feb. 26 Compaore announced a major Cabinet reshuffle . |
| 23 | In operational day-to-day terms the Bank of England has a major influence on three major markets , the sterling money market , the foreign exchange market , and the gilt-edged market . |
| 24 | JCI played a major part in the early years of mining this precious metal and its group metals , but the technology for extraction of PGM 's from the ore became a considerable problem for all the mining companies . |
| 25 | Mr Miles stopped the bleeding , but 36 hours later Mr Cleary suffered a major haemorrhage . |
| 26 | Last year , church leaders in Benin played a major role in the political debate that opened the door to current democratic changes . |
| 27 | At the end of the Crimean War he had convinced Alexander that if peace were to last Russia needed a major figure as her ambassador in Paris . |
| 28 | Assad delivered a major speech to the People 's Assembly at the oath-taking ceremony on March 12 . |
| 29 | March 1992 : HCIMA initiated a major research programme in response to the creation of the single European market in 1993 . |
| 30 | The post-Revolution wars placed a terrible burden on the Scottish economy , exacerbated by the fact that the 1690s in Scotland saw a major crisis of subsistence . |