Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] a major [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But then why would Mao in nineteen forty five say that how that they 'd made a major concession to land to the tiller but that this is a correct one and they 're going to , that land reform has to be taken in stages and they 're going to first of all reduce rent and , I mean er |
| 2 | Aberdeen arrived back from Turin this afternoon , knowing they 'd taken a major step towards the quarter finals of the Cup Winners Cup . |
| 3 | Not only that , but after beating bankruptcy as well as calls for his resignation , Miller took Hibs to Hampden last year and lifted the Skol League Cup — the first time in 20 years that the Edinburgh club had won a major trophy . |
| 4 | The ANC secretary-general , Cyril Ramaphosa , said the government had made a major concession on the issue of devolution of power to regional governments . |
| 5 | General Motors of America believed they had made a major breakthrough into the British market in 1985 when they persuaded Foster Yeoman to buy four specially constructed 3,300hp locomotives to haul heavy stone traffic from their Merehead quarry to locations in the South East . |
| 6 | The Empire had made a major contribution , in men and resources , to the French war effort , much national pride was invested in it , and it was seen as a source of continuing French influence in the world . |
| 7 | Probably because it started the 1980s with a fleet of new 125mph HSTs which had made a major impact on its market , the East Coast main line was far better placed to withstand the rigours of the recession than its West Coast neighbour . |
| 8 | Returning from a break in Wales , we found annual nettles , chickweed and seedling thistles had made a major takeover bid for the plot ; a bit of a blow , but not entirely unexpected . |
| 9 | But the Germans really had little to boast about ; they too had made a major blunder early on by concentrating on the construction of Zeppelins , and their maintenance of technical superiority during most of the war was almost entirely thanks to the brilliance of a twenty-five-year-old Dutchman , Tony Fokker . |
| 10 | I later realised I had missed a major opportunity for helping change the situation . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He had n't seen anyone carry on like this since going to watch the World Wrestling Federation with Gilbert Lewis , the man next door 's nephew , who had had a major seizure at the sight of a man called Hulk Hogan and had written to Robert afterwards to say that he ‘ had never expected to see anything like that in real life ’ . |
| 13 | There seems little doubt that the team suffered badly by being deprived of the services of Ian Gow , a widely-respected , close associate of the Prime Minister who had played a major part in her 1989 campaign and whose murder by the IRA in July had led to the Eastbourne by-election . |
| 14 | This unit had played a major part in the successful First Libyan Campaign , and included a number of experienced fighter pilots in its ranks . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It was the ultimate war , the final confrontation between Good and Evil , and he had played a major part in the war . |
| 18 | That same report concluded that high income elasticities and low price elasticities had played a major part in this observed growth . |
| 19 | However , the bill exempted the mosque in Ayodhya , Uttar Pradesh , an issue which had provoked fierce rioting in recent years and had played a major part in the collapse of the government of V. P. Singh in November 1990 [ see p. 37854 ] . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | On April 19 Verdiger announced that he would after all support Labour , but on April 22 Shas , the ultra-orthodox party which had played a major role in the collapse of the coalition in March by abstaining in a vote of no-confidence , announced its absolute support for Likud . |
| 22 | Following intervention by Sweden ( which had played a major role in initiating the US-PLO dialogue in 1988 ) , the PLO issued a statement on June 11 which declared that the organization remained " against any military action which targets civilians , regardless of the nature of such actions , and we condemn it " . |
| 23 | Qin had founded this weekly journal in 1980 and it had played a major role in the campaign for economic and political reform in China until being closed down in April 1989 following the outbreak of student demonstrations [ see p. 36587 ] . |
| 24 | 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 ] . |
| 25 | The National Assembly on Oct. 1 approved the dissolution of the powerful National Defence Council , the body which had played a major role in the planning and execution of security policy during the Vietnam war . |
| 26 | While business studies had become a major component of CNAA-validated undergraduate courses , the DMS was the stepping stone into concern for part-time continuing education in the management field . |
| 27 | In fact , unknown to them , the clearing of the gas had become a major problem . |
| 28 | By the autumn of 1917 , food queues had become a major grievance and demands for a more equitable distribution of food led to mass demonstrations and even strikes in many parts of the country . |
| 29 | Television , which had become a major force in American political life , was essential to Reagan 's success in obtaining the Republican nomination in 1980 . |
| 30 | Bush appeared to have recovered from what was later described as gastric influenza by the following day , but this was the second occasion within a year that the health of the 67-year-old President — and the possible succession of Vice-President Dan Quayle — had become a major news issue [ see p. 38183 ] . |