Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [art] major [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dry deposition may make a major contribution to the acidity problem . |
| 2 | I believe we should all warmly welcome this opportunity to debate the role of audit ; it gives the users of audit services the opportunity to have their say and it should make a major contribution to dealing with the expectation gap . |
| 3 | While members must make the major policy decisions , Bains recognised that officers contribute to the stimulation and formulation of policy : ‘ … the skilled professional officer is not just a servant who is paid to do as he is told ’ ( Bains 1972:8 ) . |
| 4 | It shows to some extent the City was tied up with the erm issue of whether or not the structure plan should include a major exception to or indeed a strategic exception to policy . |
| 5 | With the ageing of the original relay control system , the performance of the lifts was becoming progressively less satisfactory and therefore it was decided that the installation should undergo a major modernisation . |
| 6 | But though the camera may be at gut level , a cerebral decision has placed it there , and it is characteristic of Greenaway that he should stylise a major element of his film in this way . |
| 7 | The study should provide a major contribution to our knowledge of the English Police . |
| 8 | Age discrimination is so intertwined with the social fabric that legal action must become the major objective . |
| 9 | Its gains in the South — where it must score a major breakthrough to obtain a national majority — were mainly the result of a protest vote against the two other parties . |
| 10 | This fact , linked to the evidence that a high proportion of defective issues are suffering from use-related types of damage — such as detached boards and loose pages — points very strongly to the conclusion that the routine vetting of material supplied to readers should have a major role to play in the selection of items for repair and refurbishment . |
| 11 | This must have a major part to play in the increasing mindless violence of young people , imitating what they have been encouraged to believe is ‘ entertainment ’ , namely torture , murder and cannibalism . |
| 12 | They must play a major part in developing , using and controlling the new technology , not for their own benefit , but for the sake of the children they teach . |
| 13 | Politics must play a major role in any decision — but how long can the organisers afford to defer their verdict on whether the country is stable enough to stage World Cup 1995 ? |
| 14 | Your Viennese background must play a major role here too . |
| 15 | There was widespread scepticism about whether private financial institutions could successfully channel funds from lenders to borrowers , and general agreement that the IMF should play a major role . |
| 16 | The war communism model had enjoyed considerable popularity , in part because of the USSR 's ‘ authoritarian-patriarchal culture ’ , and had later taken the form of Stalinism , with its belief that the state should play the major part in the transition to socialism . |
| 17 | The horticultural quality of the specialist gardens should form the major emphasis in trying to attract visitors , and we need information on the effectiveness of current advertising , signposting , route-finding , and tourist information centre leafletting . |
| 18 | The Councils of both Societies decided that high-quality papers on Scottish geology should form the major part of the publication . |
| 19 | The Councils of both Societies , in agreeing to support the publication of the new journal , took a conscious decision that it should contain only papers of the highest quality , and that papers from Scotland 's universities , and papers on Scottish geology , should form the major part of the publication , although there has always been scope for the publication of papers on other areas , including some important theoretical papers . |
| 20 | Thus , while Sharpe , White , and Bernard do not believe that the Arminians should be blamed for causing the civil war of the 1640s , Tyacke , John Morrill , and other historians have conversely argued that Laud and his fellow prelates should bear a major part of the responsibility for provoking what they regard as ‘ England 's wars of religion ’ . |
| 21 | The scale of the venture means that a nation 's health service must accept a major responsibility for the work . |
| 22 | Only such a crisis , of almost inconceivably devastating proportions — such as might follow a major war — could so undermine and destroy the existing pluralist political structures that a new form of fascist-style charismatic leadership might appear to sizeable proportions of the population to be a viable and attractive solution . |
| 23 | Once this is resolved it might become a major source of LDC finance in the future . |
| 24 | This is the second or third closure announced in recent times — it 'll have a major impact . |
| 25 | Although Levi promised to work to unite the party " in order to heal the wound " , commentators claimed that the affair had exposed deep divisions in the party which might have a major impact on the June 23 general election . |
| 26 | He asked to speak confidentially with Ron Bullough , the Chief Scientist of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority ( UKAEA ) whose office is at Harwell , on the grounds that he ( Fleischmann ) had something ‘ very important that might require a major decision ’ . |
| 27 | Now , it 's obviously a bit of a gamble , we might give them some money , we might not get anything from it , but we might get a major feature film , or a major television series , which would be very worthwhile indeed . |
| 28 | This may entail a major upheaval , but it will be more than compensated for later this month . |
| 29 | AIDS may constitute the major tragedy of Africa this century . |
| 30 | WIRRAL Safer City Project may become a major casualty of financial cutbacks following withdrawal of Home Office funding next spring . |