Example sentences of "[verb] [num] main " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wellcome UK currently has eight main sites , namely Dartford , Beckenham , London , Berkhamsted , Crewe , Royton , Pirbright and Kelvindale in Glasgow . |
| 2 | The courses involved 140 main methods students ( four of whom were listed as non-native speakers ) , and a further 74 subsidiary methods students were reported ( but it should be noted that some courses failed to provide numbers ) . |
| 3 | The project has six main areas of |
| 4 | I used three main methods : interview , questionnaire and participant observation . |
| 5 | As initially developed in the DOE ( Likierman , 1982 ; Whitbread , 1987 ) and later in the MOD ( Omand , 1983 ) it involved three main stages : |
| 6 | To assess the state of organic maturity in the thrust province properly we need do know three main things : the geometry of the thrust sheets including the present thickness of rocks of different ages , the amount of pre-Mesozoic erosion , and past geothermal gradients . |
| 7 | One study , based on sixty-six Third World firms ( and the evidence from other studies ) , found three main reasons for setting up joint ventures : host-government pressure , the need for the partner 's skills and the need for other attributes or assets . |
| 8 | There were 78 candidates representing three main lists , together with 20 independent candidates . |
| 9 | It contains three main modules viz. ( A ) containing the screen interfaces , dialogues and spatial command processor ; ( B ) containing a help and information system for a GIS ; and ( C ) an expert system shell or high-level system access module . |
| 10 | Each year an annual report and accounts will be drawn up which contains three main elements : ( a ) The profit and loss account . |
| 11 | An expert system , in basic terms , contains three main elements : a knowledge-base ( rules and facts provided by experts ) , an inference engine ( a computer program which manipulates the knowledge-base and applies it to a particular problem ) and a user interface to make the system " user-friendly " and to provide explanations of the reasoning adopted and advice given by the expert system . |
| 12 | Toilet training covers three main areas of management |
| 13 | Poetry , says Jakobson , is ‘ organized violence committed on ordinary speech ’ ( Erlich 1980 : 219 ) , and Formalist work on poetry covers three main areas where this violence is carried out . |
| 14 | It exhibits three main facets : a ) Centralised lozenge designs with square central panels . |
| 15 | I propose three main reasons for the present bias against women in sociology ; the nature of its origins , the sex of its practitioners , and the ideology of gender roles , borrowed from the wider society , which is reproduced uncritically within it . |
| 16 | The KGB has three main tasks : maintaining state security within the country , guarding Russia 's borders and conducting foreign espionage operations . |
| 17 | Our planet has three main parts : an inner core which is believed to consist of a mass of iron and nickel ; a mantle , composed of dense dark silicate rock , rich in iron and magnesium , known as peridotite ; and a very thin crust [ see Fig. 1 ] . |
| 18 | A bibliographical services officer has three main duties . |
| 19 | Leyland 's CVT has three main components : a variator , to give an infinitely variable ratio range ( within limits ) ; a section to provide reverse , forward and neutral ; and the microprocessor-based controller which made the development possible . |
| 20 | This book is a collection of papers on immunochemical ( immunoassay ) methods and has three main parts — immunoassay evaluation guidelines , academic advances in technology , and the uses of immunoassay in industry . |
| 21 | The membrane-transducing unit controlled by G protein-linked receptors has three main components — the activated receptor communicates through a G protein to stimulate PLC ( Fig. 1 and Box 1 ) . |
| 22 | The thesis has three main stages ( O'Connor , 1973 ; Wolfe , 1977 ; Cawson and Saunders , 1983 ) . |
| 23 | For Young and Willmott , the symmetrical family has three main features . |
| 24 | It has three main shockcorded poles made from anodised Supertough aluminium crossing at the centre . |
| 25 | It has three main aims : the first is the democratic process of involving people in thinking , dealing , planning and playing an active part in the development and operation of services that affect their daily lives : the second relates to the value for personal fulfilment of belonging to a community : the third is concerned with the need in community planning to think of actual people in their relation to other people and the satisfaction of their needs as persons rather than to focus attention upon a series of separate needs and problems . |
| 26 | The Act has three main sets of provisions . |
| 27 | The Law Society has three main purposes in proposing a tender code and model contract conditions : |
| 28 | The research , which forms part of a larger study of agricultural labour and technology in Britain in the 19th and 20th centuries , has three main objectives . |
| 29 | The proposed research has three main parts . |
| 30 | The research has three main aspects . |