Example sentences of "[adv] the main " in BNC.
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| 1 | Locally the main track event is tomorrow 's Merseyside School Championships at the Bebington Oval . |
| 2 | A state of cleanliness is rarely the main objective of a manager in the food industries , as there is no direct profit contribution or production benefit , so the emphasis on management differs from that of mainstream operations . |
| 3 | Although drastic , this rebuilding was not a success , as presumably the main body structure was weak and the car was soon dumped in the back of Penge depôt ‘ out of service ’ . |
| 4 | That talent was presumably the main reason for his appointment , and that 's only right and proper because if there 's one thing England can learn from Bob Dwyer , it is that you sometimes have to be prepared to let a young side lose in the short-term to gain in the long-term . |
| 5 | Luckily the main guy was able to call me and we discussed it for quite some time . ’ |
| 6 | Luckily the main detonator failed , the bridge was taken , and within 24 hours 8000 American soldiers were on the east bank of the Rhine . |
| 7 | Chapters 20 and 21 of this book give detailed attention to ‘ fiction ’ — overwhelmingly the main preoccupation of public library users — and to the related fields of biography and travel writing . |
| 8 | An implement was used by mothers — apparently the main punishment agents — on 15 per cent of boys and 3 per cent of girls . |
| 9 | After four years at sea and now without compass and sextant , apparently the main attributes of its navigational aids , the old tub and crew are in need of a refit and the new establishment would be most foolish to embark upon the same kind of voyage.J I HOWARD , Glendale , Upper Street , Witnesham . |
| 10 | And it should be recalled that in a very short time ( less than three months ) Harris mounted his 1,000-Plan to demonstrate what strategic bombing was all about , but more especially the main reason was to get the Navy and the Army off his back with their insistent and regular demands for bombers to bolster the parlous situation in their theatres of war . |
| 11 | It is this logic of practice which effectively negates most research and is perhaps the main reason that between 1979 and 1988 , only one of the research papers I have compiled has been looked at by senior officers . |
| 12 | Perhaps the main achievement of the political right has been to slow down the rate of growth in public spending and to identify some of it as ‘ wasteful ’ . |
| 13 | A third Free Presbyterian minister said : ‘ Perhaps the main reason [ for leaving the Orange Order ] was that in 1969 I was saved by the grace of God and therefore felt that I could not sit and be associated with members of the Orange and Black while they consumed alcohol in their meetings on the 12th and 13th mornings each July . ’ |
| 14 | Perhaps the main feature was the skeleton of iron arches , linking through the floors and extending throughout the five-storey building . |
| 15 | Perhaps the main constraint is lack of money . |
| 16 | We have been particularly concerned in this report with perhaps the main exemplar of such a development : what has come to be called ‘ environmental scanning ’ . |
| 17 | It is part of the job ( perhaps the main part ) to introduce the principal terms and to convey some sense of what they mean : not only as defined in a dictionary , but also the connotations , the extra shades of meaning appended to words by the people who use them . |
| 18 | The organ is perhaps the main feature of the building . |
| 19 | Perhaps the main reason why we British have not in the past been particularly enthusiastic about positive health maintenance is that sensible medical advice on the subject is mainly concerned with telling us not to do things . |
| 20 | For the fishkeeper perhaps the main advantage is that small adjustments to the lighting level can be made without buying a new control unit . |
| 21 | The ambience the title creates in the lovely old clubhouse is perhaps the main difference between Cromer and its neighbour . |
| 22 | Perhaps the main reason why we are so strongly inclined to talk of the head as the locality of our thoughts is this … |
| 23 | Perhaps the main consequences of the lack of high intelligence in animals is that they are not as good as we are at fooling themselves . |
| 24 | But perhaps the main weapon in the Walsh armoury is his intelligent change of pace . |
| 25 | Perhaps the main question is whether the market in its present state can absorb such a wealth of material over such a short period . |
| 26 | This is perhaps the main contribution of the sexual economy of the nineteenth century to that of the twentieth . |
| 27 | … perhaps the main value of the Library-College movement is that it provides a speculative model for use in our thinking . |
| 28 | This is partly due to the relative costs of production and the public 's growing recognition that other countries can make good rugs ; but perhaps the main reason is simply that the output of workshops has increased dramatically in recent years . |
| 29 | But perhaps the main shift in all professional fields is the gradual introduction of recurrent , continuing education which implies that a professional degree ( or even chartered and qualified status ) is only the initial stage in a much longer process . |
| 30 | Perhaps the main weakness in the text , which accounts for a number of others , is the methodology employed . |