Example sentences of "their main [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their main emphasis will be on viability and profitability . |
| 2 | Their main hope lay in the less-than-brilliant Hampshire ground-fielding , which was in complete contrast with the way Kent had performed on Saturday . |
| 3 | Interleukin-2 is a new treatment therapy which can offer many people suffering from solid tumours their main hope of improved health or a longer life . |
| 4 | But Douglas , concerned about numbers , was against any diminution of their main assembly which might at any time be faced with confronting Balliol 's entire army . |
| 5 | If Zuwaya disliked policemen as a category , and took pride in not being related to any , that was in part because in the past ordinary people got their main experience of corruption and venality in the first instance from the police , and that reputation stuck ; and partly also because they recognized that policemen had divided loyalties and could not be trusted to be loyal exclusively to their kinsmen . |
| 6 | Although the Poles participated in the Reichstag , in the Prussian Diet and in the North German Union Parliament , their main areas of activity lay in the co-operatives , culture clubs , in popular education societies , reading rooms , choirs , orchestras and libraries that grew up in the 1880s ; in Catholic social organisations , in the physical culture movement and in the popular Polish-language daily newspapers like the Grudziądz Codzienny . |
| 7 | Phew , another close squeeze today with a very lucky 3–2 victory over a luckless City side without their main striker Quinn , whose out for the rest of the season with knee ligament problems . |
| 8 | Valderrama is still their main inspiration and , as they showed in the play-off against Israel , their team is well organised at the back with the ability to strike quickly on the break . |
| 9 | Their main asset was the General himself . |
| 10 | The following are their main provisions , resting on the proposition that when a contract is registered with LCH , LCH becomes counterparty to it . |
| 11 | Council tax or no , their main grouse is still lack of spending power : 85% of local-council revenues are determined by central government , which also limits spending directly . |
| 12 | and of course they had the Thames which was their main highway , Thames was much easier to use than |
| 13 | And again , ‘ … ideas about separating , purifying , demarcating and punishing transgressions have as their main function to impose system on an inherently untidy experience . |
| 14 | They are told by the media , and everything else , that their main function in life is to be attractive . |
| 15 | Their main function in emergencies is to release glucose and thus perpetuate the ‘ flight or fight ’ reaction initiated by adrenaline and noradrenaline — they have a longer-lasting effect on the body . |
| 16 | At the time they were quite thin , and their main function was to fill the gaps between boot and sock , so stabilising the foot position . |
| 17 | The Endotergites or Phragmata ( Snodgrass , 1935 ) arise as transverse infoldings of the intersegmental sclerites ( see p. 43 ) and as their main function is to provide increased areas of attachment for the dorsal longitudinal muscles they are best developed in winged insects , especially those that fly actively . |
| 18 | ‘ That 's their main function , ’ he said , inclining his head . |
| 19 | Their main function is to channel funds from those willing to lend to those willing to borrow , given that lenders and borrowers often have very different needs . |
| 20 | Their main function is to build up goodwill and pave the way for future sales . |
| 21 | Their main benefit is that they allow the applications software to be independent of the physical printing device as opposed to the normal case where specific routines have to be written for each device . |
| 22 | of all men and women have walking as their main sport ? |
| 23 | Table tennis was their main sport , so of course , just by sheer numbers and probability , they were going to have a fantastic team . |
| 24 | The first is that the stockmarket does not collapse again , causing banks ' equity capital and their unrealised share gains ( which are their main cushion against bad loans ) to dwindle . |
| 25 | The increasing demand for outdoor land and water-based sports suggests that disused reservoirs and gravel workings could be successfully redeveloped for recreation , and urban fringe farmers may well look to recreational activities to supplement their main income . |
| 26 | A study of working-class girls by Sue Sharpe demonstrated that their main aims and priorities were to marry , have children and settle down ( Sharpe , 1976 ) . |
| 27 | The Government say that in all this , one of their main aims is to go for greater local accountability , er but this h people can hardly claim to know more about the community than the elected representatives , or more for example about educational or social service activities which can be relevant to police concerns and there are many local government member as enquiries have shown who can claim outside management and financial expertise . |
| 28 | Roger : Their main route will be through our local offices , particularly through Jobplan Workshops . |
| 29 | In summary , his research showed that on the whole , supervisors with the best performance were those who concentrated their main efforts on the human aspects of their staff 's problems and attempted to build work groups with high performance standards . |
| 30 | Here he may well have acted as a diplomatic go-between in introducing them to the Roman traders , whose imports have been found at their main centre , the great oppidum at Bagendon near Cirencester . |