Example sentences of "[prep] the main [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maclean realized that their only chance was to bluff their way out of the situation , so they set off for the main gate . |
| 2 | Dublin Castle , the venue for the main event , the European Council of Ministers meeting on June 25 and 26 , has been refurbished at a cost of £22 million and equipped with a new conference centre . |
| 3 | But now they wait in far-from-quiet anticipation for the main event . |
| 4 | Barton Lynch , sitting out the qualifying rounds and waiting for the main event , recalled the 1988 Billabong , which for the first time had been held at Pipeline . |
| 5 | After working out with the region 's most promising 12- to 14-year-olds , it was time for the main event . |
| 6 | His role has been rather like that of a stand-up comic warming up the audience for the main event . |
| 7 | It was warm , crisp , fresh and set the taste buds up nicely for the main event . |
| 8 | Follow the directions as for the main route to Rydal , but from there leave the main route and follow the driveway leading round the back of Rydal Hall . |
| 9 | A prime motive in the purchase of the Grand Union by the Grand Junction in 1894 may have been the improved water supply for the main system which it represented . |
| 10 | The driver lets the train take the strain for the main journey . |
| 11 | Once you have crossed the Channel , you then board the gleaming blue and gold coaches for the main journey . |
| 12 | Not for the main purpose , I 'm afraid . |
| 13 | Of course in doing this we were inadvertently upwind of the rabbits then out to feed , and numbers would head for the main wood . |
| 14 | Singapore was the obvious place for the main base East of Suez . |
| 15 | What is the detour index for the main valley route on the map ? |
| 16 | Hoccleve duly begins to translate his sources for the main work next day . |
| 17 | Dinner is a set starter and dessert , and for the main course you may choose from the a la carte menu . |
| 18 | We would take our swimming costumes , buckets and spades , and a picnic lunch consisting of Cornish pasties — meat and potato ones for the main course , and apple or jam pasties to follow . |
| 19 | Cool and fresh it 's to be for the fish , more studied and solid for the main course ; for the dessert , fragile and delicate . |
| 20 | ‘ I wanted to find out what he was working on , ’ she said as the waiter removed the plates and tidied the table for the main course . |
| 21 | Then , for the main course , she chose the steak-and-kidney pie , dripping gravy down her horrible blouse ( it 's the sort of blouse that when you see it in the shop you wonder how the shopkeeper intends to dispose of it because no one in their right mind would ever dream of swapping cash for it ) . |
| 22 | For the main course there was pato con peras , duck with pears , and , later , fresh fruit and a caramel cream flan . |
| 23 | She then had a delectable mushroom soup — and for the main course she chose something that was entirely new to her . |
| 24 | Others require two bound copies , one each for the main university library and the departmental library . |
| 25 | Hence , the several dozen reports were reduced to a handful of summary reports for the three principal operational boards ( R&D , manufacturing , and marketing ) and a slim set of board papers for the main board . |
| 26 | The day after that telephone call he paid his hotel bill and left by taxi for the main station . |
| 27 | Nagging fears and doubts , as well as a shrewd eye for the main chance , had sent some of their number into other parties to leave behind a group of stalwarts to insist that there was a liberal way out of the dilemma , a middle way . |
| 28 | There was a certain entrepreneurial spirit about our man ; he seems to have had an eye for the main chance , and at no time more so than in 1854 , when he left behind the delights of Hoxton and begun a brief flirtation with the idea of running a lodging house . |
| 29 | It was an odd friendship ; Fraser was a gregarious man , ambitious , keen-witted for the main chance , much sought after . |
| 30 | Yet anyone who cocked an ear to their self-titled debut EP earlier this year will have been impressed by how un-English it was , both in its rough-hewn melancholic tangle — most obviously echoing both Buffalo Tom and the N-band , though not actually resembling either — and the absence of what has now become the standard English guitar-band attitude : jumped-up barrow boys jostling those same old post-punk moves , all looking out for the main chance and a quick route to the charts . |