Example sentences of "[vb pp] a major " in BNC.
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| 1 | OUT OF the ruins of super-SARA , the EEC 's science commissioner Etienne Davignon has won a major reform to decision-making for the EEC 's Joint Research Centre . |
| 2 | I had not only won a major title but my time in Madrid of 21.1 was my fastest ever , indoors or out , and that on a very tight , small track . |
| 3 | THE West Somerset Railway have won a major prize in the Ratcliff Mobility Awards . |
| 4 | Scottish conservationists have won a major award to create a marine underwater trail at Dunollie Point near Oban . |
| 5 | But the Welsh , because they have n't won a Major professional event , keep proving themselves by winning Amateur Championships . |
| 6 | The department has also won a major order from Phillips Petroleum for fire protection equipment for the North Sea Judy/Joanne fields development project . |
| 7 | But many observers , considering the harsh fact that Cram has not won a major championship medal since the 1986 European Championships , believe the Jarrow ace is too old and too injury-prone to make the grade in the 5,000m . |
| 8 | McDevitt Street Bovis have also won a major contract at Prince George 's County Hospital in Cheverly , Maryland . |
| 9 | These contented residents at Orchard House can relax knowing that staff here have just won a major safety award . |
| 10 | ‘ Celtic have not won a major trophy for a while and have lost out to rivals Rangers . |
| 11 | Edinburgh 's Douglas Watson , who has already won a major award in the US for his three dimensional illustration work has created his study from a clay panel . |
| 12 | Not only that , but after beating bankruptcy as well as calls for his resignation , Miller took Hibs to Hampden last year and lifted the Skol League Cup — the first time in 20 years that the Edinburgh club had won a major trophy . |
| 13 | Oh you can never mind this country 's never won a major war on its own and never will do |
| 14 | I 'm saying that I 'm an English member , we 've never won a , a major war on its own look what 's , what 's happened in , yeah , never won a major war on its own and never will do , there 's no nation in the world could beat a German army and , er what would built up |
| 15 | A FOSSIL originally found in the 1920s and recently rediscovered in the collection of the Institute of Geological Sciences in Edinburgh , has solved a major problem in palaeontology — the zoological interpretation of conodonts . |
| 16 | Although for many years retributivism was regarded ( at least in academic circles ) as outmoded and even atavistic , it has enjoyed a major revival in recent years , notably in the forms of the ‘ Justice Model ’ and ‘ law and order ideology ’ discussed later in this chapter . |
| 17 | China and the USA narrowly averted a major trade war when a comprehensive trade agreement was signed on Oct. 10 ; if the agreement had not been signed on that day the USA , under Section 301 of the 1988 Omnibus Trade Act , would automatically have imposed punitive tariffs of up to 100 per cent of value on Chinese-made imports currently worth a total of US$3,900 million . |
| 18 | So far this has included a major relocation from London to Peterborough , new £100m headquarters , product rationalisation , a number of company-wide initiatives aimed at improving management efficiency and a £1m investment in a new core financial system . |
| 19 | This whole question is of importance not only because it was so central to Engels 's book but also because The Origin has rightly been considered a major contribution to the feminist tradition . |
| 20 | The description and demonstration of the working of such systems has always been considered a major advance in anthropological theory and is usually traced to the publication in 1940 of African Political Systems by M. Fortes and E. E. Evans-Pritchard with their respective discussions of the Tallensi of West Africa and the Nuer of East Africa . |
| 21 | In the other areas soil was not considered a major limiting factor . |
| 22 | XIa ) shows any significant similarity to the western designs ( chequered decoration — a feature common to mosaics of both regions — is insufficiently diagnostic to be considered a major index of affinity ) . |
| 23 | The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art , known for its superb Chinese collections , has organised a major exhibition of late Ming painting and calligraphy with the cooperation of China 's two greatest art museums , the Beijing Palace Museum and the Shanghai Museum . |
| 24 | These outbreaks of disorder have presented a major challenge to the Thatcher Government 's image as the guardian of public order . |
| 25 | The women 's movement has presented a major challenge to these assumptions , but the law , the media , the social services , education and many other facets of the state continue to reinforce this pervasive ideology . |
| 26 | Hi-tech award : Sunderland-based hi-tech company Peak Test Service has scooped a major technology award from The Wearside Opportunity . |
| 27 | An international aid effort has prevented a major ecological disaster in Montenegro in Yugoslavia . |
| 28 | This suggests that during a fluent phase a speaker has already done a major part of the planning before beginning to speak a clause . |
| 29 | It appears that the enemy has suffered a major defeat in Normandy with a large amount of casualties and loss of heavy equipment . |
| 30 | If this is your first experience in the role of main helper to someone close to you who has suffered a major loss , and if you have not yet suffered one yourself , you may find the strange variety and intensity of her emotions and her need for long-term support rather daunting . |