Example sentences of "and [verb] a major [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It provides technical advice and computing facilities , printed and photocopied research material , a specialised library , a seminar programme which attracts attendance from outside Cambridge as well as within , and plays a major role in sustaining the publication of Local Population Studies . |
| 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 | To catalogue and prepare a major sale will take months . |
| 7 | Advocates of the view that primary education should be placed in the hands of the clergy failed to win their case , but priests were given entire control of religious instruction and assigned a major role in the new provincial schools councils . |
| 8 | VG LIMS is the first Laboratory Information Management Systems to be available on the RS60000 series of IMB computers and represents a major breakthrough in this field . |
| 9 | OPEC succeeded in imposing and maintaining a major increase : oil prices quadrupled during the winter of 1973–4 , raising the oil producers ' annual revenue by around $64 billion . |
| 10 | Today Roads and Traffic Minister , Christopher Chope opened the building and announced a major change to the driving test . |
| 11 | Many Brush-built Class 31s were equipped with ETH generators and given a major body overhaul , while some Class 47s were similarly treated . |
| 12 | The world 's dominant religions require members to worship at least once a week and to attend a major festival every three months . |
| 13 | 5.4.7 Both schools illustrate the fact that developments in Stage 3 of the project can be seen to be of potentially greater significance than the immediate effects of securing and expending a Major grant . |
| 14 | ‘ Life on the wild side with David Bowie ’ , which is hardbacked this January and has a major serialisation deal with the Sunday Mirror . |
| 15 | Dating from the 14th century , the house still retains its original great hall , chapel and crypt and has a major exhibition on conservation . |
| 16 | Even if FMS does not prove to be the critical target gene , characterisation of the microdeletions should considerably reduce the critical deleted region and provide a major step to identifying the real target gene . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Wilfred Innerd was a Geordie who joined the Palace at the club 's inception in 1905 and played a major part in its establishment . |
| 19 | In 1962 he was appointed clinical subdean and played a major part in revising the medical curriculum . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It helped to bring the system into disrepute and played a major part in the eventual breakdown of the Plowden structure . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Joined the Group in 1975 and played a major role in developing the Group 's significant offshore engineering activities . |
| 28 | Joined the Group in 1985 and played a major role in developing the Group 's gas turbine division . |
| 29 | Since then yet another Potato Marketing Board buying programme has begun , at £10 a tonne , simply to try and clear a major surplus of potatoes off the market . |
| 30 | 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 . |