Example sentences of "with the main [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I want to make one comment about the referendum before dealing with the main subject of my speech . |
| 2 | Thus the earliest civilian activity belongs to the third century with the main stone buildings dated to the fourth . |
| 3 | The five main panels of the altarpiece entered the Brera in 1811 while four of the five upper panels were reunited with the main structure in 1901 . |
| 4 | In parallel with the main story , one family 's tragedy mirroring another 's like the Gloucesters and the Lears , two working-class brothers act out their own drama of unresolved guilt and suppressed violence . |
| 5 | If you simply switch from writing about an investigation over which you have enlisted your reader 's sympathy to scenes of home life or love life that have no connection with the main story , you will lose each time a little of your hold on the reader . |
| 6 | In the first few years of marriage , before the decision to have a baby is made , reparative work is about intimate pairing and what was felt to have been betrayed in the first partnership of life with the main attachment figure . |
| 7 | The old growth should be cut right off , to ground level , and the plant dug up with the main mass of roots as intact as possible . |
| 8 | There is only one route , to the left down the centre of the Vs with the main flow into the deep pool between the old packhorse bridge and the new road bridge . |
| 9 | It 's a multi-million dollar show with the main factory teams of Honda , Suzuki and Yamaha negotiating vast sponsorship deals , mainly from tobacco companies . |
| 10 | It does so by going to a series of intermediate goals , for example the junction of the branch it is on with the main stem . |
| 11 | From a Shakespearean play you have read , choose a character whose relationship with the main character reveals important aspects of the play 's theme(s) . |
| 12 | Discuss the dramatic role of the character you have chosen and explain how her/his relationship with the main character gives us an insight into the theme(s) of the play . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | After an initial review and discussions with key contacts , the project will survey four main household types and three main housing types , with the main fieldwork in selected areas of Nottingham , with limited additional work on owner occupiers in the London Borough of Islington . |
| 15 | Since this is part of the preliminaries , the page , as was frequently the custom , was signed with an asterisk instead of a letter , the letters beginning with the main text . |
| 16 | She reached the junction of the lane with the main road , and there she waited , because she was not allowed to go on the main road with her cycle . |
| 17 | Panic would result in a rapid encounter with the main road traffic to our rear . |
| 18 | Such rifts are said , therefore , to have a half-graben structure with the main boundary listric fault forming a footwall , and the opposing downwarped crust forming a hanging wall leading down from a roll-over zone ( Fig. 4.9(B) ) . |
| 19 | In common with the main exchange , the market changed from dealing on the floor to dealing through telecommunications networks . |
| 20 | In this assessment of an explanation the writer has disagreed with the main proposition and supported it by looking at the Liberal and Labour parties separately , and secondly at the other factors making for Liberal decline . |
| 21 | In Britain , with the main exception of Blackpool ( not forgetting the single-deckers of the Isle of Man and Llandudno ) , trams had been largely relegated to the history books . |
| 22 | With the main objective of looking after the interests of those professional pilots who work within the air taxi and commuter airline business , this British organisation , IPA , has recently been formed . |
| 23 | Latest news from the expedition to climb Ultar , Pakistan 's highest unclimbed summit at nearly 7,300 metres , is that while no result has emerged from the tussle with the main objective , Mick Fowler and Craig Jones have made the first British ascents of Bublimiting ( 5,750 metres ) and Hunza Peak ( 6,250 metres ) . |
| 24 | On June 23 , 1989 , the Finance Minister , Seetanah Lutchmeenaraidoo , presented a budget set at R8,900 million , with revenue estimated at R8,100 million , and an estimated deficit of 825,000,000 , and with the main objective of combating inflation , which had reached 16 per cent . |
| 25 | To produce the blueshifted ( higher-frequency ) features with observed fluxes , another maser beam must interact with the main maser at an intersecting angle of nearly 180° ( ref. 21 ) . |
| 26 | In the first chapter of his study , Delinquent Boys , Cohen provides a very clear definition of the term delinquent subculture , with the main portion of the book then showing how this subculture is vital to the occurrence of delinquency . |
| 27 | With that speech , he laid the foundation for the Legion of Decency which came into being a year later with the main function of rating films according to moral classifications . |
| 28 | All conditional sentences may begin with the subordinate if clause or start with the main clause : If I have time I shall go . |
| 29 | The next six months will see plenty of activity , with the main fundraising event being a raffle . |
| 30 | It shows Knighton 's worth as between £3.2m and £12.4m , with the main asset the St David 's Preparatory School in Huddersfield , with a value of £2m to £5m . |