Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [pron] main [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's the executive part of a committee whose main function is to review and license proposals for experiments with DNA . |
| 2 | A band whose main influence seems to have been the orchestra tuning up backwards on ‘ A Day In The Life ’ ? |
| 3 | If a driveage your main driveage is found to be above the legal limit after a series of checks , in theory it should be shut until it 's sorted out . |
| 4 | The notation from the Tables provides systematic mnemonics to a limited extent , since the same notation is used for a concept whichever main class number it qualifies . |
| 5 | She appears , somehow , just as a woman whose main desire is to satisfy the wants of the one who gazes at her . |
| 6 | In the first place , as has been shown above , de la Broquière 's comparison of the Mufti with the Pope suggests a personage whose main characteristic was his spiritual rather than his temporal authority , a description which fits Fahreddin Acemi more closely than it does Molla Yegan . |
| 7 | Angus Wilson 's Hemlock and After ( 1952 ) , John Wain 's Hurry On Down ( 1953 ) , Kingsley Amis 's Lucky Jim ( 1954 ) , Iris Murdoch 's Under the Net ( 1954 ) , John Braine 's Room at the Top ( 1957 ) , Alan Sillitoe 's Saturday Night and Sunday Morning ( 1958 ) , and David Storey 's This Sporting Life ( 1960 ) are all first novels in which a lone male protagonist tries to find a means of accommodating himself to a society whose main institutions he views with suspicion . |
| 8 | In the author 's constituency , for example , there is a company whose main competitor in Germany has been given switchgear free of charge by the local electricity board , and they have been given a twenty-year loan at no interest for generating plant . |
| 9 | Shelford , part of Mark McCormack 's International Management Group which handles the interests of many of the world 's top sporting celebrities , has bypassed the laws on amateurism by working for a company whose main activity is the promotion of the All Blacks captain . |
| 10 | After all , he is one of the last survivors of a disappearing people ; he belongs to a tribe whose main characteristic is that its members do not own a television set . |
| 11 | A party whose main base of support had been the , the unions and the er union confederations which grew up in industrial cities like Shanghai becomes a party whose main power base is its own Red Army , its own army of peasant guerillas which it itself has created . |
| 12 | A party whose main base of support had been the , the unions and the er union confederations which grew up in industrial cities like Shanghai becomes a party whose main power base is its own Red Army , its own army of peasant guerillas which it itself has created . |