Example sentences of "that the main " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would not be too great a distortion of the facts to say that the main thrust of twentieth century sensory physiology has been to move the application of the doctrine of specific energies inwards from the sensory ending towards and into the cortex . |
| 2 | While you should try to keep most of the hinge and latch painted for appearances sake ( unless it is brass or galvanised ) , you must accept that the main working parts will rust ; so be prepared to apply regular coatings of oil or WD40 to protect them . |
| 3 | In the report for the Police Foundation , an independent research body , Professor Zander argues that the main US legislation , the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organisations Act , is ‘ fundamentally objectionable ’ since it allows forfeiture without criminal conviction . |
| 4 | One of the peculiarities of this problem comedy is that the main obstacle to the course of true love comes not , as is traditional , from the older generation but from the young hero , Bertram . |
| 5 | The traders say that the main species they import — galathus elwesii — is not endangered . |
| 6 | BRC frequently relay wrong information ( primarily because they receive wrong information ) , and wider societal divisions ensure that the main mode of transport in Easton , as elsewhere , is reinforced Land Rovers in order to afford occupants some protection from attack , although policemen and women see them as having their own vulnerabilities . |
| 7 | But the overall commitment in community relations to crime prevention means that the main intention is to resolve problems to prevent further incidents and keep youngsters from court . |
| 8 | Again , Lenin 's promise that the main aim of NEP was to restore peasant fortunes did begin to bear real fruit before the end of 1922 . |
| 9 | It was not at all surprising that the main road to Poltava town near Makarenko 's colony was full of travellers and plagued by bandits . |
| 10 | It was in the Transport Workers , above all , that the main battle was taking place , with the Ford dispute leading to another threatened strike by British Oxygen workers , and finally a conclusive dispute amongst the drivers of long-distance lorries and oil tankers . |
| 11 | It was in these years that the main contours of ‘ Thatcherism ’ as a phenomenon were firmly established . |
| 12 | ‘ Social imperialism ’ suggests that the main beneficiaries of this policy were British consumers , and indeed one writer has gone so far as to argue a direct link to the Attlee government 's social reforms : ‘ The nationalisations , medical provision and expansion of education so magnanimously legislated by the Labour Ministry were largely achieved because the Bank of England kept the Sterling Area show on the road . ' |
| 13 | That is , they make crystal clear something which is implied in The German Ideology , that the history of mankind is governed by the same processes in all times , and that the main one of these processes is class conflict . |
| 14 | The reason lies once again in the central fact that the main concern of The Origin was political not historical . |
| 15 | It was immediately apparent that the main challenge to the ingenuity of the designers was the considerable width of the building , which , at 20m ( 66ft ) , was more than double the dimension usually found in residential buildings . |
| 16 | It is likely that the main tenets of the report were passed to Mrs Thatcher during talks at Number 10 this month with Mr Jonathan Porritt , director of FoE . |
| 17 | However , the report — commissioned by the National Association of Health Authorities and the Society of Family Practitioner Committees — warns that the main danger is a spiralling of demand for long-term residential care . |
| 18 | The former Prime Minister , Mr Edward Heath , opposed changing the law on these grounds , arguing that the main figures had been dealt with at Nuremberg . |
| 19 | Observers are quick to point out that the main church , the Romanian Orthodox , is well under the control of the secret service and constitutes no threat to President Nicolae Ceausescu . |
| 20 | Mr Fowler said that the main plank of the Government 's sixth piece of trade union legislation was an ‘ even-handed approach ’ to industrial relations . |
| 21 | Or they can decide that the main problem is that relative poverty got no better during the prosperous 1980s . |
| 22 | According to Mr Birchall , the answer could be that they are protected by silicon and that the main biological job of silicon is simply to help living things keep aluminium out . |
| 23 | Besides defining substances as complex ideas of ‘ distinct particular things subsisting by themselves ’ , Locke also says that the main component of such a complex is ‘ the supposed , or confused idea of Substance ’ , something he also calls ‘ substratum ’ or ‘ pure substance in general ’ . |
| 24 | There was a realisation that the mantle of radicalism had been seized from the Liberal Party and that the main political division of the twentieth century would not be between the Tories and the Liberals but between Labour and anti-Labour . |
| 25 | It is sometimes argued that the main reason for allowing such matters as provocation to reduce murder to manslaughter is to avoid the mandatory penalty for murder . |
| 26 | Before Weismann , most evolutionary theorists , and in particular the Frenchman Jean Baptiste Lamarck ( 1744–1829 ) , had supposed that the main cause of evolutionary change was the ‘ inheritance of acquired characters ’ . |
| 27 | But at a sombre press conference Anfield chairman and close friend David Moores stressed that the main concern was Souness 's quick and safe return to his high profile and highly stressful position . |
| 28 | That contentious lesbian lesson may have been a well-meant attempt to broaden minds , but I 'd like to bet that the main result was a room full of scarlet faces . |
| 29 | Geographically , Table 4.4 indicates that the main provision in the District was essentially in rural areas . |
| 30 | It is also hard to grasp that the main problem in the Highlands and Islands was once the exact opposite of the present one of depopulation . |