Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] main " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tables I and II summarise their main characteristics . |
| 2 | They had placed small groups of bowmen wherever this rich cover offered , keeping their main companies higher along the hills to shoot over them . |
| 3 | Wales has its main upland areas in the northwest ( Snowdonia ) , central Wales ( Cambrian Mountains ) and in south central Wales ( Brecon Beacons ) , rising to a maximum altitude of 1,085m at Snowdon ( Figure 2 ) . |
| 4 | It is the place for black-necked swans , a superb bird which has its main breeding grounds in the southern parts of Chile and Argentina . |
| 5 | that I work for erm being the Q S has its main headquarters in Derbyshire , so it 's just possible I may be able to get some business contacts in Derbyshire . |
| 6 | Our interest lies chiefly with the main board since it is here that investor pressure or the lack of it has its main significance . |
| 7 | Every poem or text has its main point of climax , and probably several less important ones . |
| 8 | Blindcraft has its main premises in Craigmillar and has factory shops at and . |
| 9 | A paragraph , on the other hand , has its main point or direction indicated in the opening sentence , which is sometimes called a TOPIC SENTENCE . |
| 10 | Yet unquestionably the Chinese drew their main supplies of ivory from the south . |
| 11 | With the expert help of master breeders like Amos Cruickshank ( 1808–95 ) of Sittyton , in Aberdeenshire , the meatier Booth strain ultimately became the Beef Shorthorn and found its main home in Scotland . |
| 12 | Opposite , a colliery found its main market in Ferrybridge C power station . |
| 13 | Martin Middlebrook and Chris Everitt 's excellent book , The Bomber Command War Diaries tell us that on the night of 23/24 September Bomber Command for the first time concentrated its main bomber strength on one city — Berlin . |
| 14 | He regarded its main value as providing the opportunity for social research upon which the government could base more far-reaching changes . |
| 15 | In summary , his research showed that on the whole , supervisors with the best performance were those who concentrated their main efforts on the human aspects of their staff 's problems and attempted to build work groups with high performance standards . |
| 16 | If field social workers define child care services mainly in terms of planning and resource finding ( for better or worse ) , they may well consider their main work ended once the children enter care . |
| 17 | This season his form was confirmed , appropriately enough , against Neath at the Gnoll , where he demonstrated his main assets of speed off the mark and eye for an opening . |
| 18 | By this stage the fielding captain has been compelled to resort to his second and third string bowlers , keeping his main strike men back to stem the batting slog over the last 10 overs . |
| 19 | Francis already has his main strike-force of David Hirst and £1m new boy Mark Bright ruled out . |
| 20 | In 1846 he moved his main manufacture to Pendleton , near Manchester , and became the principal supplier of this important substance , which was also valuable for the expanding paper industry . |
| 21 | COHSE researcher Steven Weeks say his main concern is that the schemes being marketed ‘ are not designed to measure the type of jobs nurses do ’ . |
| 22 | In 1888 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects , and also the Art Workers ' Guild , of which he was to be an enthusiastic and devoted member , and which provided his main circle of friends ; he was elected master of the guild for the year 1903 . |
| 23 | I realise your main worry is that she or the children might have been infected with the AIDS virus . |
| 24 | Your data must be woven into a logical , coherent case that combines to communicate your main theme and subsidiary points . |
| 25 | This gives you so much more flexibility to have people to stay , to rent out a room if you become hard up or to simply have a room to move into while you decorate your main bedroom . |
| 26 | The slide out inner door panel and Valorclean liners fitted as standard take the hard work out of keeping your main oven clean , and if you need to move it you 'll find the adjustable rear wheels and lever operated front wheel a great help . |
| 27 | Will employers make their main cuts in recruitment of poly graduates ? |
| 28 | The extreme toxicity of their venom enables them to kill their main prey — eels — very rapidly and thus prevent them from wriggling free . |
| 29 | From the moment of her first touch , that little bundle became her main reason for living . |
| 30 | Gradually film production became their main preoccupation , but only Cecil Hepworth became sufficiently involved to continue after the industry had hit its first crisis . |