Example sentences of "[prep] [be] the main [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A third party may be confident that the member States behind the organisation are secure debtors , particularly if they happen to be the main industrial powers of the world . |
| 2 | Moore ( 1938a ) believed the oystercatcher , Haematopus ostralegus , to be the main avian predator and Feare ( 1967 ) suggested that " a large proportion " of the estimated 6900 of adult H. lapillus mortality on the Yorkshire coast in the winter of 1965–66 was due to these birds . |
| 3 | The greatest incidence of such names is in the region between the Forth and Inverness , known to be the main Pictish area . |
| 4 | Increasingly open discussion of the subject in the Turkish press made it clear that the Kurdish issue would continue to be the main political problem facing the government . |
| 5 | Arafat said in a Guardian report of Oct. 22 that he had " appointed " Faisal al-Husseini " to head the Palestinian team " and that Haidar Abdel Shafi , a veteran PLO member from Gaza who was to be the main Palestinian speaker at the opening conference , was " only head of the negotiating delegation " . |
| 6 | A shortage of organ donors continues to be the main limiting factor in most types of transplantation . |
| 7 | Finally , we learn how the telescope has been used to track spacecraft — there is an exciting account of how it came to be the main receiving station for the first moonwalk . |
| 8 | Helicobacter pylori ( H pylori ) infection is now recognised to be the main acquired factor in the pathogenesis of duodenal ulcer duodenal ulcer disease . |
| 9 | The gifted and versatile George , the younger of the two , proved to be the main driving force in the decades which followed , when the nursery was without equal anywhere in the world . |
| 10 | AT&T also at last hit its post divestiture stride in the US domestic market ; and in 1989 AT&T had its first major success in Europe — being chosen to be the main foreign partner ( with Italtel ) in modernizing the Italian telephone system . |
| 11 | The recent introduction of pilot one-stop-shops , which are intended to be the main local point of access to and promotion of all DTI services , and the diagnostic and consultancy brokerage services which are being developed to succeed the Consultancy Initiatives , will play a key role in helping firms , in particular smaller firms , to access the technology which they need as part of their business and marketing plans . |