Example sentences of "of [verb] a major [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The effect is not dissimilar to that of seeing a major city from the air : zones and landmarks become topographically clear ; boundaries and scale are established .
2 The process of bringing a major investment project to fruition begins with the original concept or requirement which may be triggered by a company 's business plan , new legislation or perceived external opportunities and threats .
3 Indeed the anonymous reviewer of the Pope and Weiner edition went on to propose that ‘ if the police staff college is to fulfil its task [ of producing a major project ] with any credibility , it must encourage its academic staff to go out into the field to study policing at first hand ’ .
4 MANSON 'S SOLO LP , featuring songs that he originally presented to Byrds producer Terry Melcher in the hope of landing a major record deal .
5 SUEDE , who are on the verge of signing a major recording deal with Sony , have announced details of their second single and three September dates .
6 Participants also discussed the possibility of launching a major research project on the theme , and made plans for a book on communication and human rights in Africa .
7 Participants also discussed the possibility of launching a major research project on the theme , and made plans for a book on communication and human rights in Africa .
8 He is also in the process of clinching a major record deal .
9 The victim had 15 stab wounds , including one to his neck which came within half a millimetre of severing a major blood vessel .
10 First is the possibility of inheriting a major gene for liability , but not developing the disease .
11 For most small newsagents , the prospect of defending a major libel case is frightening , and when Sir James Goldsmith threatened " Private Eye 's " distributors in this fashion , many of them caved in .
12 Denied the opportunity of supervising a major programme of construction in New York , where the Whitney Museum 's trustees have been unable to agree Michael Graves 's proposal for an extension , he is taking responsibility for the final stages of the conversion , now estimated to cost $35 million , of an ornamental warehouse located on Pittsburgh 's North Side , which will accommodate the museum .
13 Galileo was in the process of making a major contribution to the building of a new mechanics that was to prove capable of supporting detailed experimentation at a later stage .
14 In fact , ever since the beginning of the year you seem to have been toying with the idea of making a major career move or change of residence and what transpires sometimes between October 29 and November 3 should enable you to rebuild and reshape your life — and the past with all its traumas and dramas will be placed in their true perspective , if not forgotten altogether .
15 ONE OF Britain 's most successful offshore construction yards is in with a good chance of winning a major order that could secure its future for a year .
16 He had forgotten the pleasure of playing a major part in a good play in the West End .
17 Wang and Chen , formerly editor and publisher respectively of the banned journal Economic Studies Weekly , had been arrested in October 1989 , and the government-controlled media had accused them of playing a major role in organizing the pro-democracy movement of April-June 1989 [ see pp. 36587 ; 36640-41 ; 36720-22 ] .
18 Hallin touted the band around during 1987 in the hope of finding a major deal but few were positively interested .
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