Example sentences of "[coord] [art] main [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Next time you walk down the High Street in your home town , or the main shopping street of your region 's biggest city , stop at every telephone box you see . |
| 2 | What she 'd had was a double-booking , effectively , cos she 'd had this dinner which was meant to be in the private dining hall , but the numbers had suddenly shot up , and because they 'd said originally they wanted either the private dining hall or the main dining hall depending on numbers , she should have really booked them both and decided later and told me to like try somewhere else , but she did n't , she told me yeah the dining hall 's free . |
| 3 | You must overcome the difficulty of abundant information by concentrating on your basic response to the question or the main line of argument . |
| 4 | Though most women take some sort of weird maternal joy in this , being a single parent or the main money-earner in the family can lead to financial problems when she has to stop work . |
| 5 | Serve them as a vegetable , as a snack or the main meal , served with a salad . |
| 6 | Sew this with matching cotton , or the main yarn . |
| 7 | We have all met the school secretary or a main scale teacher with a strong personality who exerts more influence on staff attitudes than senior post holders . |
| 8 | We can believe that Roman justice had many advantages : but there is copious evidence that the prestige of the papal courts was not the sole nor the main motive of many litigants . |
| 9 | These specific initiatives , however , represent neither the only nor the main use which the unemployed make of the Institute 's resources . |
| 10 | If they are all full , the blockage is between the last inspection chamber and the main sewer . |
| 11 | But Harold Macmillan 's premiership ( 1957–63 ) was marked by two key decisions , which removed the main need for a space policy ( delivering nuclear weapons ) and the main sponsorship of space — the Prime Minister of the day and the Ministry of Defence . |
| 12 | I mean certainly you ca n't achieve as much as a man does , but also the jobs just are n't there any more , not so much , and the main change I 'd like to see in education is that it would help girls cope with this dilemma . |
| 13 | Similar stages in reconstruction may be seen in the examination of the remodelling of the junction between the Altländerstrasse and the main road bounding the trial area to the north . |
| 14 | It is not particularly picturesque and the main road and the ferry over the Seine make it noisy . |
| 15 | Cambo is on both the river Nive and the main road from Bayonne to Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port , and you might call it a centre . |
| 16 | This lies between Tardets and the main road running due north and south down the Aspe valley , below its head-town of Oloron-Sainte-Marie . |
| 17 | The main valley , and the main road with it , goes straight on , up to the Col du Pourtalet , which is actually a higher pass into Spain than its near-neighbour , the Col du Somport , though one that is closed throughout the winter and well into the spring . |
| 18 | Where the road is , you sh- , you should sort of come out like that and the main road sort of goes round like that and you need to sort of go like that . |
| 19 | And the main thrust of our campaign was to try and get the D , to get the D H S S to accept that as an entity , as a tower block , was hard to heat , so that the tenants would automatically get it . |
| 20 | The original circuit measured 17.563 miles ( 28.265 km ) in length , but the south loop that went to the village of Mullenbach and back was rarely used and the main circuit ( known as the north loop ) , which went to Adenau village and back measured 14.17 miles ( 22.81 km ) . |
| 21 | A first-class hotel conveniently located between the Königsallee and the main station . |
| 22 | ‘ He 'll manage twenty-five miles or so by nightfall , and that will bring him to the stream over there called the Carron , with a dozen miles of forest and boggy ground between himself and the main river-crossing . |
| 23 | Here was the Acropolis , which had dominated the city since the second millennium BC , and older than Judaic Jerusalem ( King David 's city ) by 500 years ; the Agora , the civic centre , formerly situated between the Acropolis and the main gate to the city ; both being crowned by the remains of the Parthenon , that geometric and architectural treasure widely copied — from Birmingham , England , to Nashville , Tennessee . |
| 24 | They had learned that the Earl Patrick had his base meantime at Holywell Haugh near Horndean , eight miles west of Berwick , a convenient location to encamp a standing force and to dominate the East March and the main ford of Tweed thereabouts , opposite Norham . |
| 25 | Barry organized ambushes at school between the portakabin class-room and the main school building . |
| 26 | In Manchester , the Clyne House nursery school , then occupied by the military authorities , was also severely damaged , and the main school building was hit by a bomb which went through its roof but which fortunately failed to explode . |
| 27 | Let us suppose that your department is keen to try investigative work ; some have been on courses ; there is access to a few ideas from books and journals ; and the main concern is how people will cope personally and pedagogically in the classroom . |
| 28 | After the mixed card on St Patrick 's Day we are back to an all National Hunt affair and the main race , the Sportsman Hunter Chase , may go to Bajan Blues who almost brought off the shock defeat of Matt Reid at the last meeting . |
| 29 | However it seems that the Flat continues endlessly and the main race is the £10,000 Tolka Handicap which should see yet another onslaught from the highly successful Dermot Weld stable . |
| 30 | But the rates are obviously slightly better than you will get elsewhere , about three quarter percent above an ordinary ninety day account and the main advantage normally instant access on these accounts . |