Example sentences of "[subord] one [prep] [art] main [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although one of the main claims to fame of student rugby is its unpredictability , A south African win against France in the final seems to be eminently possible . |
| 2 | The APU power was used for engine starting and to provide emergency power if one of the main generators went off line . |
| 3 | For if one of the main results of this election is that the Labour Party ditches Mr Kinnock as leader in favour of Mr Smith , it could well be a case of reculer pour mieux sauter — a kind of Pyrrhic defeat . |
| 4 | This approach was used because one of the main aims of the course was to promote an attitude change , both among participants in relation to clients and among hospital staff in relation to nursing home care In addition to , the course became a means of enabling development of teaching skills among hospital staff . |
| 5 | ‘ It is very sad because one of the main concerns these days is the delay in disability living allowances . |
| 6 | Hardly surprising , since one of the main components of that radicalism was opposition to the Vietnam war , and although nominally defeated at the party conference in 1967 , Wilson 's basically pro-US stand defined the party 's position in the eyes of many young radicals . |
| 7 | However , for the purposes of the current research the important point is not necessarily whether RHT is correct but whether one of the main propositions underlying it is correct . |
| 8 | IAN BOTHAM yesterday blamed the dropping of David Gower as one of the main reasons why England have lost the Test series against India . |
| 9 | She can be seen as one of the main exponents of the revivalist style of needlework , one of the most significant manifestations of the British Arts and Crafts Movement . |
| 10 | However , as one of the main findings of this research was that arts educators were not aware of recent changes in modes adopted to undertake professional development generally , the first part of the chapter concerns itself with a review of this issue , exemplars being drawn from arts education where these are available . |
| 11 | She identifies advertising as one of the main forms of these , and feels that the pressure is intensified by the attitudes of friends and family who have been influenced by the media and make it extremely difficult for girls to remain impervious to the images of beauty which surround them : on TV , in films , magazines and newspapers . |
| 12 | Reading about revolutionary feminism really grabbed me , reading about an analysis that saw male violence as crucial , and as one of the main issues for women and something that women die from all the time , many , many women . |
| 13 | His benign indifference to the grave problems of the contemporary world was seen as one of the main causes of the threatened collapse of British civilization and of the total isolation of the Die-hards . |
| 14 | This seemingly contradictory combination of an extreme objectivity of vision with a strong vein of intimacy and personal humour emerges as one of the main characteristics of the classical and immediately pre-war Cubism of Picasso and Braque . |