Example sentences of "[coord] even the main " in BNC.
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| 1 | But red tape is not the only or even the main problem . |
| 2 | Dividend pay-outs are much lower in Japan and Germany than in Britain and America , but this is not the only or even the main source of returns to shareholders : they receive capital gains ( indeed they prefer them in Japan , where dividends are taxed much more heavily than capital gains ) and , especially in Japan , gain business advantages through shareholdings in customers or suppliers , for instance . |
| 3 | But I do n't think that the 59 per cent threat is the only , or even the main , reason for viewing the prospect of another Labour government with gloom , disgust , despair . |
| 4 | But as Carl Simonton , the radiation oncologist prominent in the holistic health movement , and others point out , this does not isolate diet as the sole or even the main cause and it is likely that cultural factors , for which Japan is unique among industrialised nations , may be more significant ( Simonton et al . |
| 5 | However , Marxist feminists do not regard the relationship between the sexes as the only , or even the main power relationship in society . |
| 6 | This does not , however , prove that the exclusive or even the main purpose of the decree was religious , i.e. not political or economic . |
| 7 | We can hardly begin to discuss a novel without summarising or assuming a knowledge of its story or plot ; which is not to say that the story or plot is the only or even the main reason for our interest in a novel , but that this is the fundamental principle of its structure . |
| 8 | The right of the fetus may not be the only — or even the main — consideration in the abortion issue , as anti-abortionists insist . |
| 9 | But today , the flooding was limited to a few rural spots where roads were closed and even the main railway line between Swindon and Bristol was under water . |