Example sentences of "may [verb] a major [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dry deposition may make a major contribution to the acidity problem . |
| 2 | This may entail a major upheaval , but it will be more than compensated for later this month . |
| 3 | WIRRAL Safer City Project may become a major casualty of financial cutbacks following withdrawal of Home Office funding next spring . |
| 4 | A SALT-LOVING bacterium may become a major ally in the effort to develop new drugs . |
| 5 | The ‘ baseline ’ for comparison may have a major impact on these costs . |
| 6 | In agriculture , biotechnology may have a major impact on crop yields — the yield from cassava in Africa could be quadrupled if the plant could be made resistant to African cassava mosaic virus . |
| 7 | For example , a state enterprise may be subject to close parliamentary scrutiny by elected representatives , and this may have a major impact on the public image and hence the political vulnerability or strength of the enterprise . |
| 8 | So the endothelins may have a major role in atherosclerosis and the reocclusion that often follows surgical opening of occluded arteries . |
| 9 | Executives may play a major part in the running of the paper . |
| 10 | That social support may play a major role in modifying the deleterious effects of stress on health and may also influence other aspects of health behaviour such as use of health services and the following of medical advice appears now to be widely accepted . |
| 11 | This may prove a major challenge to clinicians expecting to carry on much as before . |
| 12 | Energy management systems may represent a major attempt to rationalise fuel consumption in non-domestic environments , but it remains to be seen how they will be received by such buildings ' occupants . |