Example sentences of "[verb] a main " in BNC.
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| 1 | My point , however , is that here we encounter a main morality-religion sustained by a complex and composite spiritual hierarchy which is a veritable fount of divine justice and retribution . |
| 2 | Nothing barring a major disaster can prevent her from becoming a main attraction — Barbara Dennerlein is a star in the ascendant . |
| 3 | Roger suddenly launched into this discussion about how they 'd identified the need for someone to join the team with a view to becoming a main board member ; this person would effectively release him from a lot of the day-to-day public company responsibilities and the accounting , reporting and auditing areas , so that he could focus on being part of the entrepreneurial team , organising financing and liaising with the City . |
| 4 | He was reviled as a so-called atheist but otherwise his thought received little attention , only becoming a main force in philosophy when it was rediscovered by German philosophers in the nineteenth century . |
| 5 | Young writer Tim Firth scored a big hit here last year with the lunchtime show , A Man of Letters , so this year we 've asked him to write a main house show for us — the hilarious Neville 's Island . |
| 6 | The 35-year-old officer almost died when a 9mm bullet fired by Robert Fallon tore through his groin , severed a main artery and left a fist-sized hole in his leg . |
| 7 | Bett Brothers , the property , housing and leisure group , has ceased operations at Bett Trucks having failed to find a main distributor for Leyland Daf , its franchiser . |
| 8 | ( ii ) Verbal clues : historians often indicate that they are about to substantiate or qualify a main point through the use of particular words and phrases . |
| 9 | Never before has a main World Cup season opened so early . |
| 10 | Never before has a main World Cup season opened so early . |
| 11 | The hotel itself has a main building plus some rooms on the sun terrace overlooking the pool and bar area , where Club party nights are held . |
| 12 | Each activity has a main subject focus , though ( i ) it is held together by the history theme of the project , and ( ii ) it will not be exclusively mono-subject based . |
| 13 | It has a main mirror 0.8 metres in diameter . |
| 14 | It has a main stem simply called The Street . |
| 15 | This has been a tradition in my family for as long as I can remember because during the week , everyone in my family has a main meal in the evening and sandwiches at lunchtime . |
| 16 | The category of trade customer allows a firm to treat a company or partnership which is otherwise a small business investor as an ordinary business investor in relation to any particular transaction if : ( 1 ) It has a main business which is not investment business ; ( 2 ) It enters into the transaction as an integral part of its main business ; this term will need to be clarified by SFA in due course ; ( 3 ) The firm reasonably believes that the customer has sufficient experience and understanding to waive the private customer protections and can produce evidence of that ; ( 4 ) The firm has given the customer a clear written warning of the main private customer protections that he will lose ; the key ones are listed by SFA ( and include , for example , derivatives risk warnings and suitability of advice ) but if the firm intends to ask the customer to waive best execution that should be referred to as well ; ( 5 ) The firm notifies the customer in the warning that he can ask to be treated as a private customer ; and ( 6 ) The customer has not informed the firm that he wants to be treated as a private customer , either generally or in relation to the particular transaction . |
| 17 | A vein in Lafontaine 's neck was cut , and he lost a large amount of blood , but the knife just missed a main artery . |
| 18 | As Derek Oddy has commented , ‘ essentially the woman 's diet was one of bread and tea , while almost all men consumed a main meal of meat or bacon or fish or potatoes ’ . |
| 19 | Weaving or ‘ laying-in ’ on the knitting machine uses a main yarn which knits stocking stitch and a second yarn which is knitted in front of or behind the knitted stitches , forming a surface pattern . |
| 20 | The planners realised that if a quiet residential street is designed using the same process as that used in designing a main road , it should not cause surprise if cars drive along it as though it were a highway . |
| 21 | As the Khmer Rouge attacks intensified , there was particularly heavy fighting north of the provincial capital of Kompong Thom as government units sought to repel the rebels and to reopen a main access road for UNTAC representatives stationed in the north of the country . |
| 22 | The point serves as a corrective to behaviourist tendencies in general , and therefore to Behaviouralism in International Relations , since it undermines a main reason for holding that science must stick to observable behaviour . |
| 23 | It 's got a main street , and I think it 'd got two other streets and that 's about all and sure enough one of them was Lilac Avenue . |
| 24 | The Union area includes a main hall , modern lounge bar facilities , a travel office , shop and cafeteria and disco-bar . |
| 25 | The Union area includes a main hall , modern lounge bar facilities , a travel office , shop and cafeteria and disco-bar . |
| 26 | You are better eating just a small snack than hurrying a main meal . |
| 27 | But all over the pastoral Midlands and the south of England too , the canals flowed clear and sparkling in the sunshine , something new in the landscape with their towpaths , lock-keepers ’ cottages , stables for canal horses , their Navigation or Canal Inns where they met a main road , and their long and narrow gaily painted boats . |
| 28 | Mr Zilligen is to relinquish his posts as chairman of Ferranti International USA and chief executive officer of Ferranti Italia though he will remain a main board director and assist Mr Dodd at ISC 's Lancaster headquarters in Pennsylvania . |
| 29 | Originally this was a track which followed a ridge of higher ground and later became a main route for Welsh drovers taking their cattle to be fattened in Northampton before going on to market in London . |
| 30 | Had she gone the long way round , using a main road , she would only have added 10 minutes to her journey . |