Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] as the main " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Civic Centre complex with the Palace of the People ( later renamed Palace of the Republic ) at its heart was designed to function as the main shrine and nerve-centre of the cult of Nicolae Ceauşescu . |
| 2 | Council housing has emerged as the main form of tenure of the Afro Caribbean population of Great Britain . |
| 3 | The new directly assessed tax had come to stay as the main supplement to the King 's ordinary revenue ; although fifteenths and tenths were generally granted in conjunction with subsidies for the rest of the century , the latter were much more productive . |
| 4 | Ideally I 'd like to return as the main ingredient used to make the suntan lotion Kim Basinger favours … work that one out for yourselves ! |
| 5 | After years of living with Lewis she still knew but did not know that ‘ a man ’ could regard reading as the main business of the day and everything else as an interruption . |
| 6 | By announcing America 's ‘ preparedness ’ to intervene in the European conflict , while maintaining her neutrality between the combatants , Wilson had emerged as the main hope for peace in Europe . |
| 7 | The Russians came among the Siberian peoples in the late sixteenth century from two directions , which subsequently became established as the main regular routes . |
| 8 | This same process is the one we have adopted as the main teaching method for the less academic and less well motivated school pupil . |
| 9 | This same process is the one we have adopted as the main teaching method for the less academic and less well-motivated school pupil … |
| 10 | A large number of places , particularly the smaller cities and towns of southern England , have been on the receiving end of all three major migration streams , while at the other extreme the large cities , particularly those in northern England and Scotland ( the ‘ urban north ’ ) , have acted as the main reservoir from which these flows have been drawn . |