Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] the main " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rejoin the circuit with plenty of height , remembering to lower the main wheel if it is retractable . |
| 2 | These qualification courses form a greater proportion of the total training carried out by the libraries who listed only a few programmes for 1984/5 ( see Table 9 ) , in general tending to constitute the main type of development training for non-professionals , especially in smaller libraries . |
| 3 | Friends of the Earth rainforest campaigner , Tony Juniper , said that the northern countries were refusing to address the main issue : " That forest destruction is caused by poverty and debt … |
| 4 | Before turning to consider the main authorities I should emphasise that Woolwich paid the principal sum under neither mistake of fact nor of law , rather did it pay under protest and take immediate action to challenge the validity of the demand . |
| 5 | The train sat , wrapped in rain and rocked by gusts , waiting to join the main line . |
| 6 | We 'd been stuck here , waiting to join the main line into Queen Street , for about ten minutes . |
| 7 | The violence and destruction of the pogrom aroused much criticism , but the unpopularity was mainly incurred by Goebbels and the Party rather than by Hitler — even if , according to one Sopade observer from Saxony , Hitler himself , ‘ whose name had formerly scarcely been mentioned in such discussions , ’ was ‘ increasingly reproached with having to bear the main responsibility because of his silence , his toleration , or even his blatant backing for all the events ’ . |
| 8 | Instead of the bureaucracy continuing to serve the main purpose for which it has been set up there is an obsession with procedure , because procedure has to serve as the guideline in the absence of anything else . |
| 9 | In writing thus , Schoenberg must have been trying to hide the main defect in this kind of quartal harmony — its tendency to become over-obvious and mechanical . |
| 10 | You will greatly assist both your immediate understanding of history texts and long-term recall of information if you make a habit of trying to remember the main points ; |
| 11 | But consider now a different theory which takes its clue not from Leibniz but from Kant , while at the same time trying to eliminate the main causes of the difficulties and problems that bedevil Kant 's own approach . |
| 12 | ‘ Watch it there cap'n , ’ warned one of the lead team , straining to keep the main body of the device on an even keel . |