Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [art] main " in BNC.
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| 1 | whitewashed West Indies in the one-dayers and were then routed 4–0 during the main business of that summer . |
| 2 | Others require two bound copies , one each for the main university library and the departmental library . |
| 3 | He joined the company in June 1986 as a main board director responsible for the Development Group . |
| 4 | ‘ No , you ca n't have that as a main course . |
| 5 | Cool and fresh it 's to be for the fish , more studied and solid for the main course ; for the dessert , fragile and delicate . |
| 6 | Clifford Smyth stresses the damage that would have been done to the electoral appeal of the DUP if it had been too closely associated with the Free Presbyterian Church and offers this as the main reason why the Presbytery of the Free Church refused to allow ministers other than Paisley and Beattie to stand as DUP candidates . |
| 7 | Eighteen per cent of these young people had been sexually abused at some time and 4 per cent of the females cited this as the main reason for running ( Newman , forthcoming ) . |
| 8 | He made a very sound case that only the Pathfinders should receive the benefit of H.S developments and that it was wrong for the Main Force to have the device . |
| 9 | Terry Butler , the force 's co-leader , returned to Hampshire last week and was clear about the main ingredients for success : sharing and communicating a common vision ; collaboration before competition ; putting the customer first ; project management ; and project planning . |
| 10 | It was an odd friendship ; Fraser was a gregarious man , ambitious , keen-witted for the main chance , much sought after . |
| 11 | Serves 2 as a main dish or 4 as a starter . |
| 12 | For example , Andre Agassi uses Kevlar for the main ( vertical ) strings and Babolat VS gut for the cross strings to add ‘ resilience ’ to the strings — that is improving the strings ' ability to regain their original shape after impact with the ball . |
| 13 | With little money in his pocket , and in fear for his life in those troubled times , he crossed the two thousand miles to the east well clear of the main highways and the great railways . |
| 14 | The seven leaders , who also included Banana rider Ben Luckwell , were five minutes clear of the main field and Kovar , who had started the day in 17th place 3mins 8secs down on Lillywhite , looked set to turn the race upside down . |
| 15 | The survey examined the way schools were organised but over half of the main document was dedicated to an examination of the curriculum , its planning and continuity , its content , its scope and the standard of work achieved . |
| 16 | This winter these perils have led to 12 of the main teams mounting more than 90 rescues , mainly since the start of the year , of which one-third were judged as serious incidents . |
| 17 | Some of the main efforts of historians in the first decades of the twentieth century had been directed to putting order into a mass of material , analysing works and documents , and establishing historical data . |
| 18 | An awareness of politics grows out of individuals ' perception of the world around them , and earlier in this book some of the main contributing factors to an African perception of the world , notwithstanding Africa 's great diversity , were sketched . |
| 19 | Some of the main factors behind weakness last year , such as high oil prices and high consumer and corporate debt , were dissipating he said . |
| 20 | THE absence of Steve Redgrave , the holder , who is concentrating on next week 's Olympic trials , and last year 's runner-up , Wim van Belleghem , of Belgium , has taken away some of the main interest in tomorrow 's Girobank Scullers Head . |
| 21 | Some of the main changes are : In general play , offside players may not advance towards a player waiting to play the ball until they have been put onside . |
| 22 | The aims of these projects are very close to some of the main interests of the Arkleton Trust . |
| 23 | The following breakdown includes some of the main causes of mental handicap but is by no means a comprehensive listing . |
| 24 | This has been a brief and generalised account of some of the main causes of mental handicap , which has deliberately stayed clear of describing the types of handicaps in obscure medical terms or dwelling on the complex nature of their origin . |
| 25 | The above briefly describes some of the main forms of severe mental handicap which might be encountered . |
| 26 | Some of the main forms of prevention include : |
| 27 | Of the remainder , some of the main reasons or comments given for not having this policy were ; |
| 28 | some of the main characteristics of literary language and how it conveys meanings ; |
| 29 | 17.47 The programmes of study for knowledge about language in writing should focus on : • some of the main differences between speech and writing ; • the range of purposes that written language serves . |
| 30 | According to government , some of the main needs to be met by the social security system are bringing up children , and caring for elderly or disabled people . |