Example sentences of "[noun sg] the main " in BNC.
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| 1 | For hymnody the main source of those with a traditional approach to the office hymn is The English Hymnal ( or The New English Hymnal ) . |
| 2 | And in any case the main gains to efficiency will come not from privatisation , but from the legal necessity imposed by the EC ( which would have happened anyway ) to invest £25 billion over 10 years to bring water up to drinkable standards . |
| 3 | And in any case the main gains to efficiency will come not from privatisation , but from the legal necessity imposed by the EC ( which would have happened anyway ) to invest £25 billion over 10 years to bring water up to drinkable standards . |
| 4 | For the colinear case the main field equation ( 14.3 ) is linear . |
| 5 | In this case the main stumbling block was seen as staffing for the new venture.as the church was already fully stretched . |
| 6 | There is no logical reason why a person ought not to be allowed to represent another in order to protect that other 's individual interests , but in such a case the main function of representation would probably be to provide finance for the action rather than organizational efficiency ; and in most cases there is no reason why one person should not provide another with finance to enable that other to bring an action in his or her own name . |
| 7 | In this case the main falsification would be that hundreds of thousands of inner-city speakers who are not remotely interested in RP have ‘ borrowed ’ back [ a ] from RP . |
| 8 | In Woolwich 's case the main authorities are set out chronologically as an appendix and I find it convenient to deal with them in that order and to describe the principle above referred to as ‘ the Woolwich principle . ’ |
| 9 | He believed in that case the main danger would come from Wollo soldiery pursuing the Shoans into the town , and passing close to the Legation . |
| 10 | Delaney waited , wondering from which direction the main assault would come . |
| 11 | As most recorded cases of this antedate the main period of enclosures in the mid fifteenth century , it is not clear if the conversion of land from arable to grazing in the period of population decline contributed to this . |
| 12 | When I tried to re-introduce the zero foods my problems were milk and wheat , with milk the main culprit behind my symptoms . |
| 13 | Market trends indicate that imported wines have been the main winner — Scotch Whisky the main loser . |
| 14 | Of course the main thing about the shoes was that I had to wear them all the time . |
| 15 | In due course the main gallery will be refurbished and modernised to provide an important contribution to the cultural amenities of Bristol . |
| 16 | but of course the main event of the year at Headingley is the Test Match , and say Yorkshire Cricket Club : ‘ You really could n't have a better view than from the comfort of an executive box . ’ |
| 17 | In it , we are told , ‘ the hero 's death or isolation has the effect of a spirit passing out of nature , and evokes a mood best described as elegiac ’ ; ‘ passing out of nature ’ is of course the main theme of hobbit-poetry . |
| 18 | And of course the main printing-offices were still near the town centre and the main railway station . |
| 19 | You 'd plan it around the main course the main the main meat . |
| 20 | Of course the main example of both these themes as you 'd expect is Pip . |
| 21 | Erm , could I go back to what Mr was saying , of course the main thing is , really that er , the difference in this budget and previous ones is that we are not paying projection costs million . |
| 22 | In this naval and colonial struggle the main protagonists were Great Britain and , in opposition to her , France normally supported by Spain . |
| 23 | Nature , produced by Robin Hellier , has a lot of pace as did Horizon 's The Geneva event ( BBC2 , 24 January ) What the latter did not have was much patience with the aspirant but relatively unlearned student of what is going on in the world of high energy physics The main Geneva event — the identification of the W subatomic particle which , with the Z , will enable the theory that the four fundamental forces of nature can be unified within a single framework to be sustained — has yet to be announced , though it is believed imminent Horizon had been patiently filming for four years . |
| 24 | In music literature the main facets are composer , executant ( for example , instrument or voice ) , form of composition , elements of music , character of composition , technique , common subdivisions ( for example , periodicals , encyclopaedias ) . |
| 25 | At present the main problem is in establishing PCR , with each specimen requiring the addition of numerous reagents at microlitre quantities . |
| 26 | At the Rickstones playing field the main problem is dogs fouling the soccer pitches . |
| 27 | In the case of multiple bereavement the main issue would seem to be to try and recognize with the person how many griefs they experience and where they would want to start talking about them , rather than launch into where we think they should begin . |
| 28 | Within the chief engineer 's department the main responsibility for sorting things out fell on Group-Captain C. E. H. ( ‘ Charles ’ ) Verity , who came from one of the best pre-vesting undertakings ( the London Power Company ) , after a wartime spell of directing the bombing of German power stations , to be the headquarters Generation Construction Engineer . |
| 29 | As mentioned in the previous chapter the main emphasis during the early stages of language learning is on the pronunciation . |
| 30 | They are well understood , cheap to collect and very difficult to evade … rates should remain for the foreseeable future the main source of local revenue for local government ’ ( DOE/Welsh Office 1983a : 14 ) . |