Example sentences of "[noun prp] have [verb] a major " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since then Johnson Matthey has played a major part in the development of methods of refining and melting platinum and iridium in order to produce ingots of alloy able to meet the metric commission requirements . |
| 2 | The return to Warrington where a gasometer was destroyed three weeks ago may appear to set a curious pattern to the IRA 's logistics , but it may be that recent arrests and seizures of weapons and explosives in London in early March has inflicted a major blow to their intentions in the capital . |
| 3 | OUT OF the ruins of super-SARA , the EEC 's science commissioner Etienne Davignon has won a major reform to decision-making for the EEC 's Joint Research Centre . |
| 4 | Already the rosy periwinkle from Madagascar has made a major contribution to curing childhood leukaemia and other blood cancers . |
| 5 | For some years now Yamaha have played a major role in digital sound processors and for the new season they have produced several new models . |
| 6 | Over the past fifteen years , Aberdeen has experienced a major re-structuring of its economy . |
| 7 | The Royalists ( Chetniks ) under Mihailovitch had played a major part in anti-German resistance through much of the war , although increasingly they had been in direct conflict with Tito 's partisans , who saw them as the main enemy in establishing a Communist post-war Yugoslavia , and this had also led to them acting on occasion in concert with German forces . |
| 8 | Youngsters like Keith Piper have blossomed and though neither are playing today , Alan Donald and Tom Moody have made a major impression and impact with bat and ball . |
| 9 | Already Bahrain has become a major international banking centre with over one hundred and fifty bank branches and representative offices , although oil market developments plus the political environment of the region could curb its rate of progress . |
| 10 | On Feb. 12 Farah Aydid had ordered a major attack on his rival 's strongholds in the north of the capital , leaving 16 people dead and 142 injured in only two hours of fighting , according to Western aid workers . |
| 11 | De Soto had played a major role in re-establishing the confidence of the international financial community in Peru , damaged under García , and had been involved in the drafting of a bilateral anti-drugs agreement signed with the USA in May 1991 [ see pp. 38187-88 ] . |
| 12 | If anyone admits to taking the Tatler , they will find that one of the Clergy of the Parish , Dr William Oddie has contributed a major article in the June number on the appointment of a new Archbishop . |
| 13 | Wimpey became heavily involved in Oman 's drive for modernisation and through Wimpey Alawi has made a major contribution to the fabric of the State by building roads , prestigious offices and government buildings , a police training college , hospitals — including the magnificent £150 million Royal Hospital — and hotels . |
| 14 | President Bush has made a major concession to industry over the implementation of the new Clean Air Act , overturning a decision by the Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) . |
| 15 | Pakistan 's history has been punctuated by army coups and periods of martial law , but Gen Beg has played a major stablising role since the death of military president Mohammad Zia-ul-Haq in August last year . |
| 16 | Earlier , on Nov. 9 , Bush had announced a major increase in US troops in the Gulf , to ensure " an adequate offensive military option " . |
| 17 | The regime of President Fidel Castro had lost a major source of economic and military aid with the collapse of the Soviet Union . |
| 18 | Last night in the ‘ Digital pubs ’ it did n't really matter any more whether Heseltine had offered a major defence contract inducement to the company . |
| 19 | Oxford is a national centre for the treatment of problems associated with childbirth , and research in Oxford has made a major contribution to the treatment of these problems . |
| 20 | The ALA has had a major influence in redesigning the police recruitment forms , which have gone through three drafts since the Met tried to interest Labour councils in their campaign to attract more ethnic minority officers . |
| 21 | With the publication of the Foreign Relations of the United States volumes on the Korean War and the release of the British documents it was evident that Britain had played a major role in the important decisions taken in the early stages of the war , and in particular the decision to change the aim of the operation from being merely to repel the aggressor north of the 38th parallel to that of achieving a unified Korea . |
| 22 | Britain had played a major part in the Bretton Woods agreement which , through the establishment of the International Monetary Fund , led to a major role for sterling as a reserve currency [ Eckes , 1975 ] ; and in 1945 , after considerable debate , it had opted for a large US loan ( $3.75bn plus $650m in settlement of Lend-Lease obligations ) as against tighter domestic restrictions on consumption , to help to overcome post-war shortages of goods and materials . |
| 23 | Unions in Japan have had a major influence on the way the labour market is structured , but this reflects principally the fact that union membership is in large part confined to regular workers in large firms . |
| 24 | In Namibia 's vast Etosha Game Par , WWF has scored a major success with the creation of a new , highly trained anti-poaching unit , which has dramatically reduced the numbers of animals lost . |
| 25 | Responding to the findings , Greenpeace said that it would be wrong to conclude that the Gulf had escaped a major environmental catastrophe . |
| 26 | The violence began on June 4 in the city of Osh , which had a majority Uzbek population , sparked off by a dispute over the use of farmland for housing ( the scarcity of housing in Central Asia had become a major political issue in recent years , and had already been a factor in ethnic violence between Uzbeks and Meskhetians in the nearby Fergana valley in June 1989 , and in rioting in Tadjikistan in February 1990 — see pp. 36744-45 ; 37256-57 ) . |
| 27 | MILKMEN in Darlington have started a major collection for hungry families in Russia . |
| 28 | SELLAFIELD has given a major cash boost to a unique local scheme geared to helping young people in the area . |
| 29 | MRI has had a major impact on the diagnosis of primary and secondary tumours within the central nervous system . |
| 30 | The women 's movement in the USA has played a major role in exposing the similar processes which are responsible for the creation of sexism and ageism ( and , for that matter , racism ) . |