Example sentences of "it [verb] the main [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually , it became the main type of music played by the sound systems , as its popularity grew among young blacks who abandoned skinhead reggae . |
| 2 | It judged the main discipline problem facing teachers to be not the rare serious incidents of physical aggression , but the cumulative disruptive effects of relatively trivial but persistent misbehaviour . |
| 3 | It straddles the main road into Orange , but a large roundabout has been constructed for the arch to stand serenely in a wide circular grass plot in the centre of the pounding traffic . |
| 4 | It diagnosed the main weaknesses in the schools it had inherited from earlier decades and set out its alternative vision , a Primary Needs Programme intended to meet children 's needs by transforming schools into exemplars of ‘ good primary practice ’ . |
| 5 | It recorded the main events of his life , and modern scholarship has in the main verified it from independent documentary sources as well as from Rolle 's own writings . |
| 6 | The maximum depth of the trench will be at the point where it enters the main sewer ; otherwise the trenches will need to be deep enough to allow for a fall of the required gradient away from the house . |
| 7 | It overflows into a 3″ diameter down tube where the water is re-oxygenated as it enters the main tank . |
| 8 | Er I what 's been said about the report and I think it identifies the main issues . |
| 9 | While only offering about 20ft of new climbing , it solves the main challenge of the capping roof : a formidable test piece with potentially fatal consequences in the event of a fall . |
| 10 | Here a simple conceptualisation as is serviceable for the purpose of this book is made and it follows the main elements of Miliband 's [ 1969 ] . |
| 11 | When a card is plugged into an expansion slot it accesses the main processor through a bus on the motherboard and external to the card . |
| 12 | The idea is that when an instruction that is meant for a coprocessor is encountered , the coprocessor handles it leaving the main processor to carry on with other jobs . |
| 13 | Free pre-school places for those wishing it remains the main plank of Labour 's education policy and would eat up the vast majority of the extra £4 million the party would spend while still staying within Government capping levels . |
| 14 | The second station , the Home Service , was more ‘ serious ’ : for example it carried the main news bulletins that naturally attracted huge wartime audiences . |
| 15 | It provides the main resistance to the sideways forces of the sail . |
| 16 | It provides the main source of illumination and modelling . |
| 17 | It provides the main source for the part-written element of the Constitution . |
| 18 | The contradiction shows itself in the phenomena of underconsumption and in periodic crises ; and it provides the main ground for Marx 's expectation of an eventual breakdown of the capitalist system . |
| 19 | It comprises the Main Library ( Arts , Social Sciences and general subjects as well as Special Collections ) and a number of separate Faculty Libraries which are among the most comprehensive in the UK in their subject areas : these include the Erskine Medical , Europa , Law , New College ( theology ) , Reid Music , Science , and Veterinary Libraries , all of which are fully accessible to all members of the University . |
| 20 | If it comprises the main design of a work , whose general features have already been completed , it will be fixed as a " tray " — otherwise it will be one of many prefabricated sections . |
| 21 | And it also served to draw stings : it ensured the main issue got cloaked in unimportant wranglings . |
| 22 | It shares the main galleries of the ICA 's ground floor with ‘ Craft Morphology Flow Chart ’ ( 1991 , Lannan Foundation ) which created a strong impression at the recent Carnegie International in Pittsburgh and consists of rows of hand-made woollen dolls laid out in tables . |
| 23 | Thus the final £10 in 56 , if it carries the main sentence stress , can only mean ‘ exactly £10 ’ : |
| 24 | It remained the main route from the south to Aberdeen until 1800 and Samuel Johnson , Robert Burns and Walter Scott were among the travellers who used the route . |