Example sentences of "[num] [prep] the [adj] main [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Hinduism three of the five main ways of reaching the truth rely on this difference . |
| 2 | We audit ten of the forty main requirements in Manchester but as I said earlier taking P G's and P W's as being er predominant in the larger plc markets . |
| 3 | Civil servants remained on strike following a call on April 29 by the five main unions for an unlimited stoppage . |
| 4 | We have already noted in an earlier chapter that meditation , along with yoga , is recognised by modern occultists as one of the four main paths of magic . |
| 5 | One of the four main aims of MEP states that , " … use should be made of the microcomputer to develop the individual 's capacity for independent learning and information retrieval and computerized information retrieval in school libraries can provide such a learning situation through the successful integration of curricular needs and information sources . |
| 6 | This list does not suggest that greater weight should be attached to any one of the four main considerations . |
| 7 | One of the key main objections to the Accord was that it failed to offer sufficient protection to Quebec 's English-speaking minority . |
| 8 | Fox and Stephen Brown L.JJ. noted , at pp. 1080 and 1089 , that the relevant statements were not taken on the basis that they were merely ‘ to be used for a private investigation to see if the police had acted improperly in any way ’ — one of the two main reasons for Lord Denning M.R. 's decision in Neilson v. Laugharne , the other being that the plaintiff there was merely ‘ fishing . ’ |
| 9 | One of the two main instruments , a germanium spectrometer , would be provided by the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) , which has also been asked to make available data-receiving facilities at two ground stations . |
| 10 | Her cookery book is still one of the two main sources of authentic Scottish recipes . |
| 11 | When he said " Give us free speech " in the first number of The Polar Star , he made plain one of the two main things which Russia lacked . |
| 12 | It 's the irrelevance of this texture which for me is one of the two main problems with the book . |
| 13 | In the nineteenth century , the great constitutional lawyer A. V. Dicey identified it as being one of the two main pillars of the Constitution , the other being that of the rule of law . |
| 14 | Derry politics aroused nothing but distaste for working within the system among the few people who were interested in politics but who were not already involved in one of the two main parties . |
| 15 | Because we 're not one of the two main parties . |
| 16 | Further analysis of their data and of additional data for the period from 1970 to 1975 showed that , though the vote for the two main parties had declined in the 1960s , major party identification had not : in other words , electors — whatever they may have done in the polling booths — continued to express a sense of affiliation with one of the two main parties . |
| 17 | The level of detail can be refined until this sort of analysis merges into one of the other main ways of grouping coins ( see below ) . |
| 18 | Even more recently , a young woman jogger was raped in an alleyway adjoining one of the biggest main roads in central London . |
| 19 | Alec had lived on one of the three main streets north of the river and it had a name I remembered — Clashbea Road . |
| 20 | The Modular Course , by its very nature , subjects students to the process of progressive assessment which is one of the three main principles referred to in Chapter 1 . |
| 21 | A lower proportion of their clients receive one of the three main services for which they were referred . |
| 22 | Most die from one of the three main diseases associated with cigarette smoking : lung cancer , chronic obstructive lung disease ( bronchitis and emphysema ) and coronary heart disease . |
| 23 | Together with the World Wide Fund for Nature and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds , they were one of the three main partners in the conservation consortium who tried unsuccessfully to buy the estate . |
| 24 | He added that the code addressed just one of the three main causes of tanker pollution , which he listed as poor quality ships , poor quality crews and poor quality operation . |
| 25 | We find similar striking juxtapositions in the finale of the ‘ Jupiter Symphony , where the contrast between the signs helps set off two of the five main motives of the movement : the angular four-note motive with its downward leaps of a 5th and a 7th is marked throughout the movement by strokes , and the linear , stepwise ascending six-note motive is marked throughout by dots . |
| 26 | These are two of the four main bases used by the 2,500 British troops serving as peacekeepers with the UN Protection Force . |
| 27 | Prince Charles is due to visit two of the four main bases used by the 2,500 British troops serving as peacekeepers with the United Nations Protection Force , arriving this morning at the Divulje barracks near Split on the Croatian coast and travelling on , weather permitting , to a camp known as The Redoubt , near Tomislavgrad in south-west Bosnia . |
| 28 | Four of the five main factions of the Akali Dal said on Jan. 17 that they would boycott elections in Punjab to the 117-member State Assembly and of 13 members to the Lok Sabha scheduled for Feb. 19 . |