Example sentences of "as [art] main [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who were particularly interested in politics or discussed politics , read highbrow papers or watched television news , were a little more likely to be able to name some issues ( any issues ! ) as the main themes being stressed by the parties , but the level of predictability was low . |
| 2 | Those who were interested in politics or discussed politics , read highbrow papers or watched television news , were a little more likely to be able to name some issues as the main themes being stressed by the parties . |
| 3 | 4 Teachers as the main providers of response to children 's writing need to become better readers . |
| 4 | Original intentions to replace large-scale institutions with statutory services provided in the community have increasingly been modified , with a growing emphasis being placed instead on the role of families , friends and neighbours as the main providers of ‘ community care ’ . |
| 5 | An ESRC project has noted phrases such as ‘ quickening pace ’ , ‘ clarification of responsibilities ’ , ‘ less low-level paperwork ’ , ‘ an aura of special authority ’ as the main benefits of change ( Harrison , Hunter , Marnock and Pollitt , 1989 ) . |
| 6 | Bagdikian argues that national boundaries are growing increasingly meaningless as the main actors ( five groups at the time he was writing ) strive for total control in the production , delivery , and marketing of what we can call the cultural-ideological goods of the global capitalist system . |
| 7 | Social Learning Theory is one of the four theories of gender acquisition and relies on imitation and conditioning of a child as the main forces behind the acquisition of gender identity . |
| 8 | Table 5.4 shows that US borrowers , dominant until recently , have partly withdrawn leaving Japanese and to a lesser extent UK institutions as the main issuers . |
| 9 | The enforcement of Amhara supremacy over other nationalities and the absence of a democratic machinery for instituting change are given as the main reasons why the Tigray People 's Liberation Front ( TPLF ) started an armed struggle in 1975 . |
| 10 | ‘ Lack of employment for women and boredom for men emerged as the main reasons people indulge in prostitution . |
| 11 | Parking problems and noise in the mainly residential area around Darlington Memorial hospital , where the development would have taken place , were given as the main reasons for dismissing the appeal by Surrey-based Bioplan . |
| 12 | The interviews were around a series of suggested topics : ‘ The say that you have in decisions which affect young disabled people 's education and lives , and what limits the say that you have ’ ; ‘ The say that others have ’ ; ‘ The say that young people themselves have ’ ; ‘ The implications of ‘ disability ’ on the decision-making that determines young people 's education and lives ’ ; and ‘ What you see as the main priorities in terms of who has what say and in working with others in future decisions . ’ |
| 13 | We could use those as the main divisions of the book . ’ |
| 14 | Each member country presented a report to the summit , from which desertification , soil erosion and deforestation emerged as the main problems . |
| 15 | On Dec. 14 the Assembly unanimously adopted Resolution 45/94 which stressed the right of individuals to a healthy environment and noted that " as the main sources of pollution , the developed countries have the main responsibility for taking appropriate measures urgently " . |
| 16 | Snacks can follow the same principle of low-fat , low-sugar eating as the main meals . |
| 17 | Nearly all records are for tidal waters , but birds very occasionally appear on large areas of freshwater inland , such as the main reservoirs . |
| 18 | The continued decline of international prices for the LDCs ' main export products during the last decade ; the danger of a fall in official development assistance and the consequences of the Gulf crisis , were listed as the main factors affecting growth in LDCs . |
| 19 | The following may be regarded as the main factors for determining where the general administration of a trust is carried on : 1 . |
| 20 | The perceived prime advantage of residential homes was being well cared for and companionship ; the costs and loss of independence were perceived as the main disadvantages . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | Apple Computer Inc is teaming up with trading house Uchida Yoko Co Ltd to expand its business with Japanese schools , Reuter reports from Tokyo : Uchida , which specialises in office equipment and school supplies , aims to sell 3,000 Macintosh personal computers to schools in the year from July , taking advantage of the fact that in Japan 's supplementary budget unveiled in April , the government plans to increase spending on computers for schools and other public bodies — it is expected that $1,800m will be devoted to buying over 300,000 machines for schools by 1996 , with NEC Corp and Fujitsu Ltd , the latter with its FM Towns multimedia box seen as the main beneficiaries . |
| 23 | Two of the old Bunch ( Burroughs and Sperry ) merged into Unisys ; Digital Equipment ( DEC ) and Hewlett-Packard provided increasingly severe competition in the minicomputer range and as the main beneficiaries of ‘ down-sizing ’ ( in effect producing mainframe-level computer power on a much smaller and cheaper machine ) . |
| 24 | I shall set out what I see as the main objectives and the minefields that lie ahead . |
| 25 | A grand draw with mountain bikes as the main prizes is also planned . |
| 26 | However , among the things which we tend to think of as good there are some few things which are more easily conceived in abstraction from any larger social or natural context and we will expect Moore 's method of isolation to reveal these as the main bearers of intrinsic goodness . |
| 27 | Preliminary data from Madumabisa Mudstones in the Luwanga Valley , Zambia , show illite and mixed layers as the main constituents . |
| 28 | Nina had no time to answer as the main doors opened and Julie Weatherstone , one of the personnel officers , came into the centre accompanied by a tall man . |