Example sentences of "in the main " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a chapter which discusses the letters from Germans — ‘ good Germans ’ in the main — which were sent to him in response to his book about the camps . |
| 2 | Some schools will stipulate a number of Shakespearean speeches from which you may select , but in the main the choice of work is left entirely to you . |
| 3 | Once we were in the main concourse , I put down my suitcase and turned to say goodbye . |
| 4 | They are most likely to occur because of a jerk in the cable causing an overrun , with the rope becoming tangled in the main wheel of the glider . |
| 5 | In the main , however , policing continues to be publicly concerned to prevent and detect individual attempts to steal the property of the citizen and it suits the police 's purpose for their community role to be well broadcast , for on those rare occasions when they have expanded their controls to include the activities of the middle classes , they have found themselves on less certain ground . |
| 6 | In the main , the college has produced little radical comment or research of note during the four decades of its existence , for the various chief officers have jealously ensured that any consolidation of ideological excellence at this location has been neutered , and under Home Office direction its senior courses have primarily been used to provide a stream of suitably acquiescent candidates for the ACPO ranks , who readily take on the symbols and metaphors of dominance which feed the appetite for power Stead warns against . |
| 7 | In the main , they are instilled with the pragmatic games of pursuit they play with the local petty thief ; and if asked to consider the wider nature of their role , they tend to fall back on protestations of political neutrality . |
| 8 | The red of my anger bubbled up like the rosy orange juice squeezed by the vendors ' machines in the main street in our village . |
| 9 | Local radio sports editor , Tony Delahunty , microphone in hand , was working in the commentary box , which was located in the main stand , offering live reports to regional stations , servicing the needs of local radio . |
| 10 | A couple of hooks in the main compartment allow the wallet to be hung inside . |
| 11 | One of the first prizes is shown in the main photograph . |
| 12 | The Pakistani today plays the former British champion Geoff Williams for a place in the main draw . |
| 13 | Covering the mass of routine committees raises many more problems of choice , discretion and topicality than recording events in the main chamber . |
| 14 | To park the bikes we had to strike a deal with the children in the main square . |
| 15 | Those held are imprisoned throughout the Sudan including in the main prison in Khartoum North , ‘ Kober ’ . |
| 16 | This failed in the main , not because of violent peasant resistance , but because they were simply too poor to give up any of their potatoes . |
| 17 | We saw in the main street the corpse of a woman already gnawed by dogs ( people are beginning to be afraid of dogs ) . |
| 18 | Maps of national parks and walking areas are available from book shops in the main cities and also from street kiosks . |
| 19 | There was , indeed , a broad sense that the gloomy seventies had brought about a transformation not only in Britain 's external status but also in the main instrument and agents of planning and social policy , after the oil-price explosion , the IMF crisis , and the winter of discontent . |
| 20 | In the main , BBC Local Radio has pursued a programming policy based on local news . |
| 21 | Engels , on the other hand , states in the preface to the first edition of The Origin that ‘ Morgan in his own way had discovered afresh in America the materialistic conception of history , discovered by Marx forty years ago , and in his comparison of barbarism and civilization it had led him , in the main points , to the same conclusions as Marx' [ p. 71 ] . |
| 22 | It comprises stunted birch trees in the main , each tree with a mass of leaves . |
| 23 | This is a language , a world view , a form of life perhaps , wherein one of the principal reasons for according praise to a type of art is that it is able to give voice to a politics ; Bolshevism in the main case , though as Callinicos acknowledges , one of the salient points about Modernism was its ‘ ambiguity , its capacity to express a variety of different political positions ’ ; that is , when it was not engaged on its more usual ‘ flight from politics ’ ( p. 161 ) . |
| 24 | According to teachers , the school was divided into three social groups , which did n't mix : English children , Indian children in the main school , and reception class children . |
| 25 | Across the way in the main hall dominated by Renault and Peugeot/Citroen was Activa II , a big handsome XM coupe built just for show , but thought to be the type of car BMW should have built instead of the 850i . |
| 26 | The five-speed has a special chamber in the rear casing accessed by a valve which opens when the oil temperature reaches 90deg C. Up to 550cc of oil is bled off into the chamber , which means the increase in depth in the main casing is reduced to 15 to 20mm . |
| 27 | They could eat in the main cookhouse , but tonight they prefer their own culinary efforts . |
| 28 | This is the main highway from Istanbul , which lies about 100 miles to the east , to the Greek border , some 100 miles to the west , and although in most parts it has a good tarmac surface it is in the main single carriageway . |
| 29 | The one in the parlour is divided into sections by bands of naturalistic vegetation in a typical 17th-century manner ; above , in the main bedroom , is a simple affair , with applied plaster oak leaves . |
| 30 | Dinner in the main restaurant is £22 a head without wine . |