Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [art] main [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had crowd-flow blockages , insufficient refreshment facilities , no VIP entrance , no security check until people were in the main auditorium , and no way to get backstage except by walking right through the main meeting , up the stairs onto the stage and out through the back — with everybody watching ! |
| 2 | On leaving Culworth turn right off the main leisure route and follow the signs to ‘ Sulgrave ’ . |
| 3 | There was just enough speed for the aircraft to take off but unfortunately sustained flight was impossible and G-FLIX sank just enough for the main wheels to catch the edge of the dyke . |
| 4 | Example 2:9 Right of way : limited times The right in common with the landlord and all others having the like right at all times between 8.30 am and 6.30 pm on weekdays and between 8.30 am and 1.30 pm on Saturdays ( but not on public holidays ) to pass and repass on foot only through the main entrance to the building of which the demised property forms part and over the stairs and corridors leading therefrom to the demised property ( c ) Lifts A right to use a lift may be implied in the case of a letting on , say , the tenth floor of a block ( Liverpool City Council v Irwin [ 1977 ] AC 239 ) or where it would be inconvenient and uneconomic for the tenant to use the stairs ( Dikstein v Kanevsky [ 1947 ] VLR 216 ) . |
| 5 | She had been waiting on Dreadnought to watch the water coming in through the main leak . |
| 6 | She turned as two uniformed policemen came in through the main entrance . |
| 7 | Not only does this pick them out , but the underline can be used only for the main emphasis of the sentence . |
| 8 | But this joint venture between the two parents ' genes worked only for the main genes within the nucleus of a living cell . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | It was warm , crisp , fresh and set the taste buds up nicely for the main event . |
| 11 | After all the years in which we pressed British Rail to open the station and the bus company to allow buses to come down into Portlethen village , when the station was reopened , the bus companies suddenly decided that buses would come down off the main road and start a service to compete with British Rail . |
| 12 | ( Y ) If a really important item appears in A.O.B. the Chairman should cut discussion short and ask for the problem to be put down as a main item for the next meeting . |
| 13 | Besides that , it leads down through the main generator rooms below . |
| 14 | Plainly if only two numbers have been put together for the main number , added entry headings can be generated merely by reversing the component number ( e.g. main entry under 331.2:687.9 and added entry under 687.9:331.2 ) . |
| 15 | The NTV , with its headquarters in Lagos , had television stations in all nineteen state capitals which link up at certain times — especially for the main evening news bulletin — and have federally appointed management . |
| 16 | Having given you a run down of the main events , you can see how harmful rejection and repression can be to a vulnerable sixteen year old girl . |
| 17 | But they stayed the longest in Baldersdale , apart from me of course , and eventually retired down to Hunderthwaite , down near the main road . |
| 18 | At this level of the bay there were small promontories every hundred metres or so along the main catwalk and Rostov walked out onto one of them . |
| 19 | The prison , where some of the dissidents who opposed the Shahs rule were held by SAVAK , was painted up , the street were cleaned , pots of flowers were placed all along the main roads , birds in cages were hung from lamp posts , shopkeepers were given blue coats to wear . |
| 20 | It undoubtedly owes its early discovery by both scientists and the hobby to its distribution pattern ; it is found all along the main drainage of the Amazon in relatively accessible waters , unlike some of the more recent introductions ( eg A.nijsseni , A.macmasteri ) which have a very restricted range in small bodies of water off the beaten track . |
| 21 | It was virtually a hundred-and-eighty-degree turn and very sharp , the culvert blocked with stone and the remains of a small tree , so that the full volume of the water coming down the gully was swirling across the track to disappear over the edge , thundering down into the main gorge of the Jequetepeque . |
| 22 | Along with the main cargo , however , Small Gains had shipped a quantity of tiles . |
| 23 | In a " Summary of Surrendered Personnel " sent by 5 Corps to Eighth Army and AFHQ on 17 May , under the general heading " Russians " , " about 4000 from 14 Ukrainian Div " are mentioned as still being in the Corps area , along with the main groups of Cossacks , the Caucasians and the Schutzkorps [ KP 142 ] . |
| 24 | Overleaf is a table summarising the results , along with the main specifications of the individual cameras . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | So I got together with the main designer at Ibanez in Japan and we traded ideas , and the new prototype — I 've got one already and I 'm picking another one up in a month — is very unusual , and I think a really exciting development for a jazz guitar . |
| 27 | The accompanying diagram shows the ‘ spaghetti bowl ’ of the flowchart in a simplified way , together with the main end-uses for the products . |
| 28 | On the streets , the drab appearance of the Mao years was becoming brighter , especially in the main cities . |
| 29 | Reproaching herself for not having unlocked it when she had come in from the main door , she rose quickly and went to open up . |
| 30 | Before Chas could reply , Ace burst in from the main access corridor . |