Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [art] main " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had crowd-flow blockages , insufficient refreshment facilities , no VIP entrance , no security check until people were in the main auditorium , and no way to get backstage except by walking right through the main meeting , up the stairs onto the stage and out through the back — with everybody watching ! |
| 2 | On leaving Culworth turn right off the main leisure route and follow the signs to ‘ Sulgrave ’ . |
| 3 | There was just enough speed for the aircraft to take off but unfortunately sustained flight was impossible and G-FLIX sank just enough for the main wheels to catch the edge of the dyke . |
| 4 | Example 2:9 Right of way : limited times The right in common with the landlord and all others having the like right at all times between 8.30 am and 6.30 pm on weekdays and between 8.30 am and 1.30 pm on Saturdays ( but not on public holidays ) to pass and repass on foot only through the main entrance to the building of which the demised property forms part and over the stairs and corridors leading therefrom to the demised property ( c ) Lifts A right to use a lift may be implied in the case of a letting on , say , the tenth floor of a block ( Liverpool City Council v Irwin [ 1977 ] AC 239 ) or where it would be inconvenient and uneconomic for the tenant to use the stairs ( Dikstein v Kanevsky [ 1947 ] VLR 216 ) . |
| 5 | But this joint venture between the two parents ' genes worked only for the main genes within the nucleus of a living cell . |
| 6 | Not only does this pick them out , but the underline can be used only for the main emphasis of the sentence . |
| 7 | In the fourth century , as we learn from inscriptions ( e.g. Syll. 957 ) , the ‘ defence of Eleusis ’ was the charge of detachments of the young conscripts called epheboi ; and Eleusis , Panakton and Phyle are mentioned together as the main fortresses of Attica in a hellenistic text ( Syll. 485 ) . |
| 8 | It was warm , crisp , fresh and set the taste buds up nicely for the main event . |
| 9 | Plainly if only two numbers have been put together for the main number , added entry headings can be generated merely by reversing the component number ( e.g. main entry under 331.2:687.9 and added entry under 687.9:331.2 ) . |
| 10 | The NTV , with its headquarters in Lagos , had television stations in all nineteen state capitals which link up at certain times — especially for the main evening news bulletin — and have federally appointed management . |
| 11 | At this level of the bay there were small promontories every hundred metres or so along the main catwalk and Rostov walked out onto one of them . |
| 12 | It undoubtedly owes its early discovery by both scientists and the hobby to its distribution pattern ; it is found all along the main drainage of the Amazon in relatively accessible waters , unlike some of the more recent introductions ( eg A.nijsseni , A.macmasteri ) which have a very restricted range in small bodies of water off the beaten track . |
| 13 | The prison , where some of the dissidents who opposed the Shahs rule were held by SAVAK , was painted up , the street were cleaned , pots of flowers were placed all along the main roads , birds in cages were hung from lamp posts , shopkeepers were given blue coats to wear . |
| 14 | Together with the main exporting company of Danish meat products , ESS-FOOD , DFDS TRANSPORT have established an international transport company by the name of DANISH FOOD TRANSPORT I/S , specializing in temperature controlled transport . |
| 15 | So I got together with the main designer at Ibanez in Japan and we traded ideas , and the new prototype — I 've got one already and I 'm picking another one up in a month — is very unusual , and I think a really exciting development for a jazz guitar . |
| 16 | The accompanying diagram shows the ‘ spaghetti bowl ’ of the flowchart in a simplified way , together with the main end-uses for the products . |
| 17 | On the streets , the drab appearance of the Mao years was becoming brighter , especially in the main cities . |
| 18 | ( 8 ) The offer of the cash underwritten alternative is usually made conditional only upon the main share offer becoming or being declared wholly unconditional in accordance with its terms . |
| 19 | All round the main building were wooden huts , and Hut 6 , to which I was posted , was a large one about sixty feet long , divided by plasterboard partitions into several rooms , all of which contained the simplest and most basic furniture . |
| 20 | These other departments are situated on two sites which are each a mile or so from the Main Library , and about two miles from each other . |
| 21 | As Dr Roper told BBC WILDLIFE , ‘ In the winter , most of the badgers slept together in the main sett , while for the rest of the year they often slept apart in one or other of the outlier setts . ’ |
| 22 | Kubitsky was below on the main bay deck . |
| 23 | The general picture , however , is that girls , especially outside the main towns , have limited opportunities to pursue their education . |
| 24 | The discussion is relevant not only to the main topic of this first Part , but to many other issues taken up by later articles in the collection . |
| 25 | We walk together to the main entrance like drunk soldiers in from war . |
| 26 | She had come to look forward to the intervals between tenants , for at such times she would sit at the bedroom window that overlooked the street , which sloped swiftly to the main thoroughfare ; and guided by the landmarks of St Dominic 's church and , beyond that , St Ann 's , she could look over the chimney pots and catch a glimpse of the river gleaming between the busy traffic on it . |
| 27 | Having entered this Christian society the individual had to conform to its beliefs and to demonstrate conformity by attendance at Church , especially at the main feasts of the ecclesiastical year . |
| 28 | Opposition to the proposal was expressed not only by the main whaling countries , led by Japan , but also by four small Caribbean states — St Kitts , St Lucia , St Vincent and Dominica . |
| 29 | At gunpoint , the woman walked slowly towards the main door , carefully adjusted the lock , and then slammed it as she ran to call police . |
| 30 | He crept slowly towards the main corridors . |