Example sentences of "which [vb past] a major [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In June , regular services began from South Shore to Bispham , which became a major terminal of the Promenade cars as it is to this day . |
| 2 | Here he describes the unprecedented amount of sculpture he has found , whose quality demonstrates that the sculptors of Aphrodisias were no mere copyists but artists ofa distinctive school which made a major contribution to ancient art . |
| 3 | IBM , which announced a major restructuring after plunging into the red last year for the first time in its history , made an after-tax profit of $595m in the three months ending March . |
| 4 | These attacks , plus an incident in which two men , a Briton and a Zimbabwean , were kidnapped and held for a month by the MNR in February-March , led to renewed doubts about the security of the Beira corridor between Zimbabwe and the central Mozambican port , which provided a major fuel and transport artery for Zimbabwean trade . |
| 5 | This identification was one factor which provoked a major attack on the practice of International Relations which helped usher in a new way of thinking about the subject . |
| 6 | Cecil Menary had married into the large McAuley family which played a major part in the life of the Cabra congregation and in evangelical culture generally in the North Antrim area . |
| 7 | Working class women 's groups and the Workers ' Birth Control Group , formed in 1924 , which played a major part in the struggle for access to birth control information , also found it impossible to ignore the maternalist framework in their campaign . |
| 8 | In Canada , the aims of the women 's pressure groups which played a major role in bringing about reforming legislation , have been described as follows : |
| 9 | The Bulgarian Green Party , which played a major role in the movement leading to the overthrow of communism , has changed its name to the Conservative Environmental Party . |
| 10 | It 's an emotive issue and raises questions like whether it 's appropriate that a company such as Daimler-Benz which played a major role in the Third Reich , should be allowed as they want to , to build their headquarters near Hitler 's bunker . |
| 11 | The February meeting was the first of its kind to be hosted by Saudi Arabia , which opposed a major role for the Shi'ite opposition in a future Iraqi government , but now considered that the ousting of Saddam Hussein had become a priority . |
| 12 | It is , moreover , an irony that these ministers ( Gaitskell , Jay , Wilson ) were at the same time preparing a Full Employment Bill which assumed a major capacity for planning within the government machine . |
| 13 | £158,000 capital grant to the Church of Go of Prophecy in Chapeltown ( 1990 ) which constituted a major contribution towards the construction costs of the Austin Burke Memorial Centre . |
| 14 | Unrest in Aceh province on the northern tip of Sumatra erupted in April when separatist insurgents ( members of the Free Aceh Movement ) carried out a series of attacks on police posts , which prompted a major security operation against the rebels . |
| 15 | Grammars of Latin and German were assembled by scholars , plus biographies ( which formed a major part of medieval literature ) and works of history . |
| 16 | Apart from the Parkhurst riot of 1969 , disturbances were comparatively infrequent in British prisons until the year of 1972 , which saw a major wave of rooftop demon-strations in many prisons . |
| 17 | By way of contrast we may note that between 1939 and 1959 , years which saw a major debate and official investigation of the subject , there were only two major books . |
| 18 | In the summer of 1935 , George Pateman resigned following his appointment as Assistant Secretary to the Cambridge University Board of Extra-Mural Studies — a major surprise to many in the District and which precipitated a major re-casting of the District 's policies and priorities . |
| 19 | This stimulus lasted until the Finance Act of 1973 which introduced a major revision of the system of corporation tax . |
| 20 | Maskelyne took out patents on over forty commercial inventions , which included a cash register , patented in 1869 , which won a major award at the Paris exhibition , his 1889 typewriter , and his 1892 patent for a coin-operated lock for public lavatories , which was used in England until the 1950s . |
| 21 | The seats , which won a major design award before the SL even went on sale , appear to be rather flat , but support your back and thighs well . |
| 22 | As the Minister knows , my criticism and concern are directed at Government policies which had a major bearing on the difficult circumstances faced by this man in the period immediately before his death . |
| 23 | These issues were hotly debated but in February 1946 George Kennan , a US diplomat in Moscow , wrote an analysis of Soviet policy which had a major impact on thinking in Washington . |
| 24 | The apparent reason for this increase in imports was a reduction in demand from China which had a major impact on the international market for urea ( see Lancaster , 1989 ) . |