Example sentences of "by [verb] a major [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In any case it soon demonstrated its reluctance to accept the discipline of the Unified National Leadership of the Uprising , by organizing a major strike on the twentieth anniversary of the arson attack on the al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem on 21 August . |
| 2 | Columbia fought the rating by hiring a major law firm and produced several hundred affidavits from psychiatrists , social experts and church men to support their view that the film should be seen by audiences under eighteen , because it was a realistic look at social behaviour . |
| 3 | The Law Society has responded to the introduction of Legal Aid franchising and the Society 's development of the Practice Management Standards by organising a major series of conferences during May , June and July 1993 . |
| 4 | ‘ By planning a major event bringing together everyone who works to make the town a better , brighter place we hope to increase interest in these local contests . |
| 5 | They 'd followed that up by mounting a major surveillance job in London without clearing it with us or the Co-ordinator or anybody . |