Example sentences of "[noun sg] provide the main " in BNC.
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| 1 | For people who work outside the home , work provides the main opportunity to form this loose social network but for others the same support is provided by an extended family network of children , grandchildren , brothers and sisters and neighbours . |
| 2 | The concepts of relevancy , purpose and reasonableness provide the main mechanisms through which this type of control is expressed . |
| 3 | Louis Shores foresees the student shaping his own course and his own curriculum , with the library providing the main means of achievement of his objectives as he sees them ; the teacher is to be available " when needed " . |
| 4 | An outline of codes and coding theory provides the main basis for the author 's later conclusions . |
| 5 | The drawings he made at various ports of call provide the main burden of this show arranged by the Goethe-Institut . |
| 6 | ‘ The prospects have been greatly improved , ’ he reported breathlessly , ‘ by the promise of the British government to provide the main roads if the stage of mass settlement is reached . ’ |
| 7 | Culture and common descent provide the main claims for national differences , but other criteria have also been used . |
| 8 | The barley and oat straw provide the main winter diet for beef cattle ; the rolled oats and rolled or ground barley are fed to poultry , pigs , and bovine youngstock . |
| 9 | The opening paragraph provides the main reason — a desire for a higher standard of living . |
| 10 | The table top and the bottle provide the main compositional accents , while the remainder of the surface is broken down in secondary vertical and horizontal sections . |
| 11 | However , another three stage active lowpass filter provides the main filtering , and gives a step-free output signal . |