Example sentences of "[pron] mr major " in BNC.
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| 1 | The same applies to monetary targets , now just a melange of notes and coins ; and to nominal GDP , which Mr Major did n't even mention . |
| 2 | It is a problem of which Mr Major is well aware . |
| 3 | He sent an urgent appeal by fax to union general secretaries ahead of a Conservative news conference that day at which Mr Major and Mr Howard , Employment Secretary , claimed unions had been told if they ‘ shut up ’ today would be ‘ pay day ’ . |
| 4 | The ERM is just the sort of orthodoxy from which Mr Major has learnt he can escape . |
| 5 | Mr Garel-Jones , 51 , was the architect of the Prime Minister 's greatest triumph at Maastricht , which Mr Major himself described as ‘ Game , set and match ’ . |
| 6 | By March 1992 , 3.64m people had opened Tessa accounts , depositing £10bn and therefore removing that much spending power from the economy for five years — a side-effect for which Mr Major might not wish to claim too personal a responsibility . |
| 7 | But the public is not likely to view the Autumn Statement as the big boost to the economy which Mr Major and his senior ministers have been signalling . |
| 8 | The executions in the trenches were a shameful , squalid episode , which Mr Major 's decision can too easily be taken to endorse . |
| 9 | The urgency with which Mr Major acted left MPs in no doubt he would have some harsh words for Mr Delors . |
| 10 | David Mellor and Norman Lamont , to whom Mr Major owed greater loyalty , lost his support in the end . |
| 11 | He was certainly not the ‘ exemplary leader of the western world ’ to whom Mr Major referred yesterday . |
| 12 | Not only is there Mr Major 's new vehicle for small savers , acronymed TESSA and a reminder of the introduction of the premium bond and Ernie . |
| 13 | Whatever Mr Major 's motives may be for having concluded that your that the process is at an end that your involvement , effectively , with Gerry Adams is at an end , what about Mr Reynolds ' motives ? |
| 14 | But there is a bigger caveat about what Mr Major did , a caveat about tax philosophy . |
| 15 | Mr Major on the stump was exactly what Mr Major is in Downing Street , in a television studio , in private conversation : calm , prudent , reasonable , sympathetic , friendly , not easily moved to public passion . |
| 16 | What Hong Kong needs , and what Mr Major fervently desires , is someone who has no predisposition to ‘ understand ’ if Peking again goes back on its promises . |
| 17 | Choice , opportunity to rise , mobility within one 's lifetime , the power to decide your own fate , where anyone , whatever his or her background , can become anything , provided they work hard enough ; this is what Mr Major means by ‘ classlessness ’ and a ‘ society at ease with itself ’ . |
| 18 | That is what Mr Major should address , however many more times he has to stand on his head . |
| 19 | An angry scene took place in the Cabinet Room at Number 10 , and Mrs Thatcher adopted what Mr Major calls her ‘ blustering and bullying tactics ’ . |
| 20 | What Mr Major should have said , if he was intent on justifying his decision , was that many of the executions were grotesque by any civilised standards , but that they accorded with the code of discipline that was in force at the time . |
| 21 | And I 'm quite sure that what Mr Major will then say if , if er demand and borrowing and so on does take off again , er is that this is because the real economy has improved , but of course it wo n't be true , er and we shall have to pay the price again er at the end of the , of the honeymoon period . |