Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] a major [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A separate Harmsworth chain owned a morning and three evenings , and United Newspapers controlled or had a major interest in six . |
| 2 | They found this to be so worthwhile that , on their return from exile , synagogue worship continued and became a major influence in religious life . |
| 3 | 2 The personal will of the King was no longer decisive in government , and the effective choice of the Prime Minister and his leading Cabinet colleagues passed out of his hands and became a major role for a powerful House of Commons . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This is due largely to the fact that doctors were able to organize themselves into a professional group before the state intervened in medicine and became a major employer of medical practitioners . |
| 6 | Today Roads and Traffic Minister , Christopher Chope opened the building and announced a major change to the driving test . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Wilfred Innerd was a Geordie who joined the Palace at the club 's inception in 1905 and played a major part in its establishment . |
| 9 | In 1962 he was appointed clinical subdean and played a major part in revising the medical curriculum . |
| 10 | Kentish archers were considered among the finest in the country and it is not unlikely that archers from Halling were present with Lord Cobham during the Hundred Years War and also at Agincourt , where the archers of Kent were in the fore front and played a major part in the defeat of the French Cavalry . |
| 11 | It helped to bring the system into disrepute and played a major part in the eventual breakdown of the Plowden structure . |
| 12 | Sigmund Freud did not overestimate the importance of sex in psychology , he simply showed that sex existed and played a major part in the psychological development of a human being and if suppressed could result in neurotic disorders . |
| 13 | I was thinking for instance in the context of Sri Lanka , where I was born , that there is n't a straight forward national liberation struggle , there are lots of problems such as militarism which the women 's movement has taken on in various ways and played a major part in combating . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Involvement of the teachers : In successful schools , the teachers were involved in curriculum planning and played a major role in developing their own curriculum guidelines . |
| 16 | Albert Einstein was largely responsible for the first , was entirely responsible for the second , and played a major role in the development of the third . |
| 17 | Joined the Group in 1975 and played a major role in developing the Group 's significant offshore engineering activities . |
| 18 | Joined the Group in 1985 and played a major role in developing the Group 's gas turbine division . |
| 19 | Addressing senior personnel from the industry as well as representatives from various financial institutions , described how the company had become a leading European Private Label supplier and secured a major share of the French breakfast cereal market . |
| 20 | Meanwhile several hundred thousand foreign workeers , mostly Egyptians , Palestinians and East and South Asians , poured out into Jordan and threatened a major refugee crisis . |
| 21 | In the EC member states agriculture was heavily subsidized through the common agricultural policy , and their reluctance to contemplate the phasing out of subsidies had deadlocked the GATT talks and threatened a major trade war . |
| 22 | In Zambia the government took a controlling interest in twenty-six foreign-owned companies in 1968 , and acquired a major stake in the two giant copper mining companies in 1969 . |
| 23 | The USA and Canada had sought a commitment to dismantle all agricultural subsidies over the next 10 years on the grounds that such subsidies distorted world trade and formed a major impediment to the further liberalization of world trade being currently negotiated under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) within the " Uruguay Round " [ see pp. 37227-28 ] . |
| 24 | The decision followed months of debate on a new draft of the Constitution , and removed a major obstacle to progress in negotiations with Renamo rebels waging a violent destabilization campaign against the government . |
| 25 | It is true that the oil crisis dealt an important blow to the functioning of the system and had a major impact on the form and timing of the crisis — constituting a trigger for the crash which separates the period of overheating from the subsequent one of mass unemployment and stagnation . |
| 26 | ‘ The loyalists got out to Jamaica Street and launched a major attack . |
| 27 | Under his premiership Israel signed a peace treaty with Egypt , ceded the Sinai peninsula and launched a major invasion of Lebanon . |
| 28 | During the year , we have also reviewed the investment of our liquid funds , we have planned a ‘ Patrons ’ scheme , with an eye to support particularly from the smaller banks in the City ; we have introduced credit card payments , and resolved a major uncertainty I referred to last year over our Lombard Street offices . |
| 29 | Mr Pettitt and Miss Larkin vanished from their home , in Jericho Farm Walk , Aigburth , six weeks ago and sparked a major hunt . |
| 30 | Mr Pettitt and Miss Larkin vanished from their home , in Jericho Farm Walk , Aigburth , six weeks ago and sparked a major hunt . |