Example sentences of "[adv] [num] [prep] the main [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Polybius ' misgivings about the future of Rome had proved justified — and this was perhaps one of the main reasons why Posidonius decided to continue his work . |
| 2 | But perhaps one of the main reasons for abandoning monetary targets was the desire to prevent exchange rate fluctuations , and the use of changes in interest rates to achieve this . |
| 3 | Security is obviously one of the main reasons for paying someone to homesit . |
| 4 | You need an awful lot of persuading to get doctors to start to use a new medicine and a classic example was of the treatment of depression , where the pharmaceutical manufacturers started to produce tablets which were very effective in stopping depression , not just feeling a bit blue but actual serious clinical depression where the person 's sat in the corner and stared at the wall and did nothing — I mean really serious depression — doctors took a long time to realize that there was an effective treatment for that and to start to prescribe it , and in fact actually doctors in Britain are rather good in that we prescribe many more effective treatments for depression , we diagnose it more often , and this we believe in our office that this is one of the reasons why the suicide rate has gone down in Britain quite dramatically in the last few years , because depression , which is obviously one of the main causes of suicide , is being effectively treated . |
| 5 | Thus one of the main considerations of the research will be to make some contribution to the task of developing a more sophisticated literary sociology . |
| 6 | Yet by the late seventeenth century it is not one of the main roads described by John Ogilby in his atlas , Britannia , and had thus lost its former significance by that date . |
| 7 | But because it has declined the environmentalist movement is not one of the main concerns in his book . |
| 8 | Duvall was already pulling open one of the main doors when Rohmer and the others rushed down the corridor towards them . |
| 9 | However , Broad Street , which is normally one of the main areas for the Fair , remained closed off because of the blast damage . |
| 10 | This is probably one of the main factors which creates his effects in the poem . |
| 11 | It is still probably one of the main causes of fatal gliding accidents all over the world . |
| 12 | This was also one of the main conclusions reached by Alan B. Shaw in his brilliant little book Time in Stratigraphy . |
| 13 | Sharif was also one of the main organizers of a rally held on Aug. 17 , 1989 , in Islamabad to mark the first anniversary of Zia 's death . |
| 14 | It was also one of the main reasons for people returning for more training . |
| 15 | Large-scale cattle ranching is also one of the main reasons for forest decline in Central America . |
| 16 | The airport is also one of the main bases which holds chemicals to deal with large oil spillages in Scotland and the North . |
| 17 | The social security system is also one of the main mechanisms through which the income inequalities between older women and men are both generated and reinforced and by which the dependence of women on men is encouraged . |
| 18 | Once , when we were going up one of the main avenues in the city a lump of thawing snow fell from a tree under which we were passing and hit me on the face . |
| 19 | Such play of language is the particular subject of Chapter 2 ( " Inside Word Play " ) , but , as the subtitle suggests , is really one of the main themes of the book . |
| 20 | So what I 'm saying is erm I happen to think that the A L O stuff is some of the most valuable stuff that we do , it 's really one of the main ways forward and if we just sit back and do nothing about it it 's gon na just be wiped out at a a swipe . |
| 21 | Henry McLeish , the shadow Scottish employment spokesman , said : ‘ Tens of thousands of Scots have been plunged into the black hole of long-term unemployment , now one of the main causes of poverty , and thousands more teeter on the brink . ’ |
| 22 | It does , however , lose what is often one of the main advantages of laser-Doppler anemometry , the fact that there is no probe to disturb the flow . |
| 23 | The Conservative Party was thus preserved intact , and the fact that it was able to provide a rallying point for the middle and lower middle classes was arguably one of the main bulwarks against political extremism in the 1920s and 1930s . |
| 24 | Now erm all the gifts that you give at Confirmation the whole idea of Confirmation in well one of the main ideas of Confirmation is taking on board for yourself what your parents promised for you in baptism . |
| 25 | In a nasty , but highly entertaining tirade , one of the more perceptive remarks was that if it was n't for The Wedding Present , Ukrainian music would be confined solely to Blue Peter specials ; surely one of the main reasons the band did it in the first place . |
| 26 | Indeed one of the main reasons for the failure of Marxists to make headway amongst the Latin American working classes is that labour organisations in many of these countries were originally the creation of the state . |
| 27 | Indeed one of the main arguments against the televising of Parliament was that it would damage the way the House works , although some thought it would change for the better . |
| 28 | The latest argument is about the beast where three of the main characters each believe different things about he beast . |
| 29 | I 'll go straight into er item two A I think the first thing the County Council would would wish to say this erm examination is that er today we are really seeing the culmination of I suspect er ten year work erm in Greater York by the Greater York authority and a particularly intensive period of work over the last five years , er by the Greater York authorities , the paper that I put round N Y five the matter two A really addresses the history and why we reached the conclusions corporately that we have and as all as we 've already indicated erm progress was able to be made when the Secretary of State included a Greater York er dimension erm into the er into the structure plan in a the first alteration , erm and that enabled a body of work to be undertaken by the Greater York authority , and I think I ought to say at this point that the Greater York authority comprises of the County Council er and five District Councils , and there you have six different councils , all with an interest in the future of Greater York , sitting down together , trying to sort out the way in which the future of Greater York erm ought ought to be developed , and the means they did it did that of course was through the Greater York study , which began in nineteen eighty eight and started off immediately with a study of forty , fifty development , potential development sites , erm in and around er er Greater York which produced a report , as I said in on page three of the of N Y five , around about April nineteen eighty nine , the conclusions of which were quite clearly unacceptable to erm members of the Greater York authority , because they saw quite clearly , and they were supported by the public in this , that to continue peripheral development , which had been the pattern of development in the Greater York area , erm certainly through the sixties and seventies er was unacceptable in terms of its impact on settlements , and particularly er its impact erm on erm erm the York greenbelt which still at that stage erm had yet to be made statutory , and that was again one of the main stimuli to making progress , the need to s formally define er the York greenbelt . |
| 30 | The posters were not removed however and education was certainly one of the main topics of debate at this unusual NPC . |