Example sentences of "and [verb] the main [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , also I , I wanted to try and cover the main points and it 's very difficult with a subject like that to , to only give you part of the , the story otherwise people would immediately say , well , yes , but you have n't thought about this or that . |
| 2 | You will notice that the comments do pay attention to spelling , but that the main purpose of the response is to show the pupil that he has achieved what he set out to do , that is , to write it like a court report , and to include the main information from the story . |
| 3 | We pushed past the steward , re-crossed the cobbled yard and entered the main palace building . |
| 4 | Dornford Lane itself has an extension which actually by-passes Woodstock to the east and joins the main road to Oxford ( A 34 ) further south at Begbroke . |
| 5 | Chapter 4 begins with a brief description of the modes of assessment used and contains the main body of the results of testing . |
| 6 | As he expected , he drew a blank , and found the main objection was the Founders ' powers . |
| 7 | Once surrender had been agreed to , it was obvious that the Partisans had one object , and that was to secure , as they termed it , the " Booty of War " … within an incredibly short time , certainly less than twenty minutes , the Partisans had all emerged out of the hills and lined the main road for several thousand yards . |
| 8 | Small things build up to give a positive lasting impression and provide the main opportunity to enhance the reputation of the company — in this every employee has a role to play . |
| 9 | Look along the sections of the tables and match the main features of the case with the features of the remedies . |
| 10 | Subsequently , psychologist Glynis Breakwell ( University of Surrey ) and sociologist Ken Roberts ( University of Liverpool ) were commissioned to write reviews of current research and theory on this subject and identified the main questions which the new initiative should attempt to answer . |
| 11 | The main concern of the project is to collect evidence about the incidence of homesickness , to examine daily work efficiency in affected individuals and to explore the main features of reported bouts of homesickness . |
| 12 | Chapter 5 refers to the process of exploring a situation and expressing the main factors as a rich picture . |
| 13 | Now let us stand back and see the main shape and character of the tree . |
| 14 | In order to summarise a lecture you need to listen carefully to the lecturer and record the main points as they are made . |
| 15 | Then he was on to the cabin top and releasing the main halyard . |
| 16 | The simpler side eyes detect peripheral movement and guide the main eyes towards potential prey . |
| 17 | It defines the actors as states and sees the main processes in international relations as constituting a search for security . |
| 18 | ( a ) It confirms whether you have correctly identified and understood the main points and separated them from the subsidiary details . |
| 19 | MacMillan and Ashton understood this and emphasised the main action . |
| 20 | Using FMEA [ Failure Mode and effect analysis ] , we identified and quantified the main places where contamination was getting in . |
| 21 | When I showed my few pages to Shelley , he urged me to develop the story at greater length , and to underline the main idea more powerfully . |
| 22 | The latter and associated rubber air pipes caught alight and set the main avionics loom on fire . |
| 23 | We then proceeded to search and secure the main living room area and the kitchen area . |
| 24 | Kings Quest VI has now been released without too much banging of the hype drums or rousing fanfares , and forms the main review of this the first Software magazine . |
| 25 | Finally , and by way of summarising and emphasising the main points of this chapter , an investigation by Graesser , Hoffman and Clark ( 1980 ) will be described briefly . |
| 26 | Once you have become accustomed to selecting the needles , sliding the lace carriage and moving the main carriage in the correct order , you will be able to move on to rather more elaborate lace patterns . |
| 27 | If the pilot light goes out for any reason , a heat-sensing thermocouple detects the fault and prevents the main gas supply from operating . |
| 28 | Then a surly man named Kourabi shook the tree from spite and broke the main branches which were heavy with another generation of ‘ fruit ’ . |
| 29 | List , describe and compare the main sources of information from which desk research may be carried out . |
| 30 | 4 ) Analyse and compare the main techniques of quantitative forecasting . |