Example sentences of "[art] major [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had a 100% retention on the mortgage until the major work was done , and meanwhile were managing on a bridging loan — it was a bit like living in a house with no roof , hoping that it would n't rain ( which we more or less were doing ) . |
| 2 | The major work which started at Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire last winter to improve the conservation environment has continued this year with the installation of the second phase of a new heating system . |
| 3 | The roofing felt was eventually fixed with a gallon of disgusting adhesive and half a pound of nails , which just about completed the major work , everything else could be classified as ‘ off jobs ’ to finish off . |
| 4 | Spokesman , Mike Walmsley commented : ‘ The major work on the line is associated with bridges . |
| 5 | Systematic comparative analysis of management strategies in industrial relations has only recently begun , the major work so far being Gospel and Littler ( 1983 ) which relates to the inter-war period . |
| 6 | Be that as it may , the major work of planning for the change to public ownership was certainly delegated to the men the Labour Government intended to appoint to the Central Authority . |
| 7 | How often is project work , for teachers , put on a par with art and craft , or games : that is , something to be done after the major work of the school day , basic skill work , is finished ? |
| 8 | Barron never achieved the major work on heraldry for which his friends hoped ; his learning is scattered through the pages of the Ancestor and the Victoria County Histories . |
| 9 | The major work , ‘ Friendship Quartet ’ , conveyed the feelings between two women friends involved in a disagreement and subsequent reconciliation . |
| 10 | The last use is the basis of the major work in this field , the treatment by Laver ( 1968 , 1980 ) ; if one adopts this as the meaning of ‘ voice quality ’ it is preferable to use the term ‘ phonation type ’ ( see Catford , 1964 ) for ( ii ) , and in any case I would prefer to use ‘ personal speaker characteristics ’ for ( i ) . |
| 11 | He also had a copy of Gauguin 's Avant et Après which recounted the episode in the Yellow House from Gauguin 's point of view , patronising , complacent in its nervousness , making sure the world knew who was the great painter , the great influence , the major man . |
| 12 | The blockade began on April 18 when crude oil supplies to the major refinery at Mazeikiai were cut off . |
| 13 | During the week OAPs travelling in either direction will be eligible for substantial travel concessions agreed with the major travel companies . |
| 14 | The second decision was to locate the major expansion in a North Eastern direction from Tyneside and to plan North Tyneside and the coal field area as essentially one unit . |
| 15 | Finally , once account is taken of the major expansion of special employment programmes , particularly job creation schemes , in recent years , the LFS provides no evidence of any growth in temporary working . |
| 16 | The following table , though by no means exhaustive , lists the major writers and their principal works . |
| 17 | Indeed , Caesarius apart , the major writers of the next generation looked back to Sidonius as their model . |
| 18 | Water constitutes the major mass of an organism . |
| 19 | So , how are the major corporates implementing this joint strategy ? |
| 20 | ‘ I would like once again to thank you for the major contribution you 've made to our AIDS education programme this year . |
| 21 | In poor light and on a tricky pitch , West Indies , put in by Botham , had to work hard to reach 198 , with 78 from Greenidge the major contribution and Old 's figures being a remarkable 11-4-12-2 . |
| 22 | The major contribution to informed debate about the search for sites for the disposal of nuclear wastes has come from a group of geographers ( Openshaw et al. 1989 ) and a GIS approach to this problem can pay high dividends . |
| 23 | Indeed , not only were his 29 League goals ( out of a total of 70 ) the major contribution towards Palace 's promotion to Division Two in 1920–21 , ( our first season in the Football League ) , but many of them had been scored with his head . |
| 24 | Those conscientious airlines that put safety before profit make the major contribution , while all the rest are only too keen to read about other people 's troubles but less willing to contribute themselves . |
| 25 | To counter-balance any shortcomings on the domestic front claims have frequently been made about the major contribution which financial services rendered to the economy through invisible exports . |
| 26 | Accordingly , the major contribution of economics to policy over this period has been in providing some short-term corrections to economic activity whilst being able to do little to alter the long-term trend . |
| 27 | Side chains Lys23 and Thr25 on the ribbon surface of each subunit make direct hydrogen bonds to the edges of base pairs ( Figs 1 b and 2c ) , making the major contribution to sequence specificity in the complex . |
| 28 | Probably the major contribution has been and will continue to be to encourage a more realistic and informed approach to social problems and matters of social policy . |
| 29 | Peter needs to understand this and then , if given adequate help and support , will feel that he can make the major contribution towards restoring his own health ( see also Chapter 3 ) . |
| 30 | To my mind , the major contribution of econometrics to our understanding of advertising so far has been to establish the relatively marginal effect of advertising expenditure level changes in comparison with price changes : typically , price movements relative to competition seem to account for as much as 70–80 per cent of the changes in brand shares in a market . |