Example sentences of "main [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scales are not usually given except as scale bars with units varying from one to another but the main chart is approximately 1:239,300 and the Caledonian Canal is in the order of 1:80,000 . |
| 2 | Mr Ford , as befitted an engineer , possessed a methodical nature ; he made a careful scrutiny of the sepoy encampment and noted on an improvised map the location of various groups and regiments ; he also came to deduce , by painstakingly observing the arrival and departure of ammunition carts , the position of the main sepoy magazine . |
| 3 | Goschenen then is the place of decisions : whether to take the tunnel through to Italian-speaking Ticino and southern climes , or to proceed to Andermatt on the old Gotthard road which now climbs sharply up to cross the Reuss tributary and after some hairpin bends enters the forbidding rock walls of the Schollenen gorge which took centuries for road builders to master , first by bridle paths on suspended plank bridges and in more modern days by tunnels and galleries as well as daring bridges Emerging from the gorge the road crosses the Reuss waterfall on the " Devil 's bridge " and enters the wide Urseren valley in which Andermatt lies , occupying the strategic position at the " crossroads of Switzerland " or even of Europe — where the main west-east route carved out of the high alpine massif by the Rhine and Rhone rivers crosses the north-south route gouged out by rivers Reuss and Ticino . |
| 4 | Money at call is the main reserve that banks draw on if they are short of cash . |
| 5 | The main emulation that the EPL 4300 sports is HP Laserjet IIIP , complete with PCL5 , the latest of the Hewlett Packard page description languages . |
| 6 | ( For the report on the main ICOM conference in Quebec in September see p. 19 . ) |
| 7 | The complex , of some 20 caves , was the main base for rebels led by Shimon Bar-Giora , the chief commander of the Jewish revolt , who was captured in 70AD , taken in chains to Rome and executed outside the Capitol . |
| 8 | Bevin did not accept Attlee 's idea of resiting Britain 's main base in Africa , but he did share in a developing view that Africa should play a much greater role in Britain 's imperial policy , especially because of its ( alleged ) economic potential . |
| 9 | Singapore was the obvious place for the main base East of Suez . |
| 10 | Just next door is our main base in Bodrum , the Angora I and II , and the dynamic Halikarnas disco is just a short stroll away . |
| 11 | This signalled the start of a long association between Biddle and Stratford Mills , the site being adopted as his main base of operation in the Stroud area . |
| 12 | By 1839 it was under the control of Playne and Smith , whose main base was Dunkirk Mill . |
| 13 | However , he would not have been around to negotiate with the RAF and would have had to rely on a tenuous radio link with the LRDG main base . |
| 14 | This had long been the LRDG 's main base with clear water and even a few European houses . |
| 15 | Now it should be re-named the ‘ Oil City ’ , since its shops and industries are booming as the main base for the many services supplying the oil wells of the North Sea and their workers . |
| 16 | These regulatory agencies are increasingly faced with transnational adversaries who are capable of shifting their main base of operation — or if that is too drastic , their illegal activities at least — to other countries where laws against such behaviour do not exist , or if they do , where enforcement is even more lax . |
| 17 | BA wants to put Gatwick-based pilots , cabin crew and ground staff on lower rates of pay than those at the airline 's main base at Heathrow . |
| 18 | The next fifty years were the classic age of piracy when men like Teach ( Blackbeard ) plundered in all directions and buried their fortunes on treasure islands , but after their main base in the Bahamas was brought under control by the British government in 1718 the Atlantic was made reasonably safe from this . |
| 19 | Zinc and lead are the main base metals dissolved by the hydrothermal fluids as copper is only soluble in quantity above the maximum temperature of 250°C reached by the fluids . |
| 20 | He had to take action against pirates and sailors who used the port of Harfleur as their main base , and who were encouraged by the French king to carry out raids upon English shipping in the Channel and the English coast . |
| 21 | At the end of his first week back , Baldwin went to stay at Cumberland Lodge , in Windsor Great Park , only a few miles front Fort Belvedere , a bijou residence which justified its martial name only by looking like a toy castle , but which was nonetheless the King 's main base throughout his brief reign . |
| 22 | A party whose main base of support had been the , the unions and the er union confederations which grew up in industrial cities like Shanghai becomes a party whose main power base is its own Red Army , its own army of peasant guerillas which it itself has created . |
| 23 | The inter-war years saw a good deal of activity in North Shields by the local branch of the National Unemployed Workers Movement ( NUWM ; see CDP , 1978 ) , whose main base of support was on the Meadowell . |
| 24 | ‘ This could still be Spinward 's main base on the planet , ’ Defries said . |
| 25 | ‘ Whether a fishing vessel is operated by a company or an individual , the responsibility of the operator must be traceable through some real and continuous representation at the main base of operations concerned . |
| 26 | The main base entrance rolled shut behind Bernice , replacing the constant pinkish daylight of Moloch with the flat white glare of artificial light . |
| 27 | The scheme is applicable whether or not the school in question is the student 's main base . |
| 28 | We look forward confidently to providing a service of the highest quality from our new main base . ’ |
| 29 | Our other main base was at Gravesend on the Thames , but until the new pier and floating pontoon was built in 1980 it was not a convenient place for laying up the cutters . |
| 30 | It is his main base , and where the news will be . |