Example sentences of "have [verb] a major [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 ) . |
| 32 | There was a hint that this was a short term strategy , Mao at the seventh national congress in April nineteen forty five argued the C C P has made a major concession to land to the tiller . |
| 33 | An infant at eight months who retrieves a completely-occluded object has made a major advance in understanding the appearance-reality distinction , at least on the plane of action , because he now knows that , although the perceptual input at one time tells him that there is no rattle in his reachable space , really there is . |
| 34 | Hi-tech award : Sunderland-based hi-tech company Peak Test Service has scooped a major technology award from The Wearside Opportunity . |
| 35 | While it talks about rolling back the state , it has overseen a major increase in central government and police power . |
| 36 | As the Party has grown it has been able to achieve representation in local government to the point of having controlling power on some councils , it has had a major voice in the first Assembly , the Convention , and the second Assembly , and it has elected representatives at Westminster and the European Parliament . |
| 37 | As part of the deal with Prue Leith , it has had a major facelift . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | There is no doubt that the growth and authority of employers ' associations has had a major influence both upon the development and the direction of collective bargaining in many countries . |
| 40 | Throughout the world we can see how the engineering , interventionist model of Western medicine has had a major influence on definitions and explanations about health , as well as on the organisation of health services and the utilisation of resources . |
| 41 | I believe that our membership of the ERM has had a major influence on the recession in the United Kingdom . |
| 42 | And his wife Marion , 37 , has had a major cancer op . |
| 43 | The reduction in the cash available for people to spend due to the April 1988 social security changes and the highest interest rates ever ( enhanced by the multiplier effect ) , has had a major effect on the local economy , in reducing demand for locally produced goods and services . |
| 44 | Whether commissioned as a promotional tool or not , the showing of such films has had a major effect on the outside world 's perception of Edinburgh . |
| 45 | The controversy surrounding the overall record of the Thatcher administration suggests that it has had a major impact . |
| 46 | Thermoluminescence has had a major impact on the antiquities market starting from about 1970 when the first tests were made in Oxford . |
| 47 | Remembrement — the government sponsored reorganisation of land to produce larger fields and rationalised farms — has had a major impact on agricultural productivity and intensification in many parts of the French lowlands over the last few decades . |
| 48 | This recognition has had a major impact , not only in the ecological field but also in that of Earth Mysteries . |
| 49 | The Franks Report has had a major impact on critical analysis of tribunals . |
| 50 | Initial results from the first phase of the research ( summer 1986 ) show that the police are sticking very closely to the new rules and that this has had a major impact in the way CID officers conduct investigations . |
| 51 | There can be little doubt that the survey since its modern inception has had a major impact on social research , and any history of social research has to award it a salient place . |
| 52 | MRI has had a major impact on the diagnosis of primary and secondary tumours within the central nervous system . |
| 53 | Nevertheless , concern about the loss of agricultural land has had a major impact on development plans , on planning decisions , and on appeal decisions . |
| 54 | While the Thatcher government has had a major policy aim of controlling public expenditure and has used the block-grant regime and rate-capping to that end , centrally imposed financial controls not only infringe the rights of elected councillors to determine local spending needs and priorities but also undermine accountability to local ratepayers . |
| 55 | A most encouraging £650,000 has already been raised and one graduate has promised a major donation . |
| 56 | THE Royal Bank has commissioned a major work of art for Drummond House . |
| 57 | In university libraries the organization of staff for book provision has to resolve a major difficulty — the respective roles of university departments vis-à-vis the library staff . |
| 58 | As will be described below , the leader of the Serbian communists , Slobodan Milošević , has played a major part in whipping up anti-Albanian feeling in Kosovo . |
| 59 | A long-standing friend of WACC , Daniel Tjongarero , was appointed Deputy Minister for Information and Broadcasting and has played a major part in drawing up Namibia 's information and communication policy . |
| 60 | A long-standing friend of WACC , Daniel Tjongarero , was appointed Deputy Minister for Information and Broadcasting and has played a major part in drawing up Namibia 's information and communication policy . |