Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [verb] a major [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : ‘ I recently launched a major initiative to rid Darlington of bus congestion . |
| 2 | Shrewsbury by the way are a third division team , they 're about eighth or ninth in the table so er a great chance for them tonight to cause a major upset . |
| 3 | A major part was played by the international Red Cross movement , founded in 1863 , and whose role was formalised in the Geneva Conventions of 1864 and 1906–7 on the treatment of the wounded and the sick , and which also played a major role in the movement to impose humanitarian principles to the conduct of war . |
| 4 | The Programme includes publications , studies and seminars , many of which also have a major training component . |
| 5 | I am particularly pleased to see present my hon. Friend the Member for Windsor and Maidenhead ( Sir A. Glyn ) , who obviously has a major interest in this matter . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm afraid that you still have a major problem , ’ the family lawyer had pointed out . |
| 7 | He tossed out Lee Chapman , who then became a major force in the Leeds team that won the League last season . |
| 8 | Prior to project involvement there was a tradition of generous library funding in two of the four schools , and in all four there were keen , imaginative teacher-librarians who subsequently played a major part in developing and sustaining the school 's library policy . |
| 9 | ‘ We also play a major role , of course , in teaching and research and are at the forefront of developments right across the spectrum of medical and surgical care ’ . |
| 10 | So I do n't think in terms of paralinguistics anybody here has a major problem . |
| 11 | Although colleges do not award an NVQ themselves , they still have a major role to play in providing the means whereby trainees can gain competence and be assessed in their job . |
| 12 | Their music is too harsh for a crossover of the REM variety but they still offer a major label reasonably strong record sales and , more importantly , a fair degree of earthy , musical chic . |
| 13 | He hit 87 as Essex made 188-6 from 52 overs in their rain-hit match , but they still face a major battle today . |
| 14 | However , although rivers and estuaries helped to form these beaches , they also provide a major threat to those who windsurf from them . |
| 15 | While it is difficult to draw any definite conclusions from such bald statistics on recorded crime , they clearly posed a major embarrassment for a Government pledged to reduce the crime rate . |
| 16 | They certainly played a major part in the history of the eastern Alps , the Carpathians and the Balkan Mountains , with widespread northerly thrusting of nappes . |
| 17 | It was said of Brent under the Labour council : ’ If you have a council that is as monumentally incompetent as Brent 's has been in the last few years , it rightly gets a major vote of censure from the public . ’ |
| 18 | SORAFOM became OCORA and provided technical assistance to Francophone stations , for which it long remained a major source of material . |
| 19 | So the head of a major I ca n't think of the guy 's name and he just had a major acquisition and this guy was |
| 20 | It thus becomes a major provider of information on the industry as a whole , so that the analyst has much material for study . |
| 21 | It thus becomes a major constituent of the waste product , faeces . |
| 22 | Johnson & Johnson chief executive Frank De Angeli did a management buy-out and set up Devro in Scotland , where it quickly become a major exporter world wide . |
| 23 | It also represents a major challenge to educationalists : not only should children be taught to use information technology , a subject that has emerged suddenly from nowhere with no teaching tradition , but all disciplines could profit from incorporating this new technology into their teaching practice . |
| 24 | First the company has to sell the service to a young market , and it also has a major competitor : Thorn EMI , whose Hospitelli service currently has installations in 30 hospitals . |
| 25 | Moving to a residential home or nursing home can have many advantages — such as more company and a feeling of security — but it also means a major change in someone 's way of life . |
| 26 | In Italy it also involved a major intensification of work . |
| 27 | It also fuelled a major controversy in the 1970s with Nicos Poulantzas over the meaning of ‘ relative autonomy ’ . |
| 28 | He also made a major contribution to local history through his editorship of the series of pamphlets produced by the local branch of the Historical Association . |
| 29 | Erm and er , but he also had a major drinking problem . |
| 30 | In the building industry change to metric , he also played a major role arranging training seminars in collaboration with the RIBA and leading the Agency 's role as an advisory body to local authority architects and building contractors . |