Example sentences of "[prep] main [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At this level BIS has encouraged co-operation through its conferences before and after main ALA conferences . |
| 2 | Under the government 's new Rent-a-Room scheme , tenants and owner-occupiers who let furnished rooms in their only of main home may now be excused tax on rent up to £3,250 . |
| 3 | Right from the very start it will help if you can decide at least on the number of main meals you will have each day and on the number of snacks , if any . |
| 4 | Many of the hotels in this brochure do continue to provide waiter serve , although some of these will have buffet for breakfast and for the first course of main meals . |
| 5 | They include schemes like that of the Abbeyfield Society which aims , by converting large older-type houses , to provide old people with the personal security and independence of their own room and furnishings , combined with the advantages of the degree of companionship and care that a communal dining room , the provision of main meals and the friendly attention of a resident housekeeper afford . |
| 6 | ( 4 ) The purpose of the subsection is to make it clear that the extension of the permitted hours only applies to the part of the premises set apart for the consumption of main meals by a person having a table meal there . |
| 7 | Series 7000 systems range from $14,000 to $70,000 , depending on the number of main processors . |
| 8 | Dinner is three courses , with a choice of main dish . |
| 9 | First , the provision of main bicycle roads connecting principal traffic-generating land uses is vital . |
| 10 | THE RESULTS of the December agricultural sample census of main holdings for 1992 were published yesterday by the Scottish Office Agricultural and Fisheries Department . |
| 11 | The second priority will be the division of your holding into a number of main blocks , depending upon your acreage , to give you a measure of control over the grazing of your pastures , to separate groups of stock ( e.g. rams from ewes ) , and to shut off fields for hay or arable crops . |
| 12 | This was a decision of main committee , on page eight . |
| 13 | A survey is made of a random sample of about 100 000 passengers into and 125 000 passengers out of main air and sea ports . |
| 14 | Generally , then , the basic objective is to build up a strong framework or system of main stems , and to develop lateral side shoots which are pruned back each spring to 3 or 4 inches ( 7.5 or 10cm ) , with a terminal bud pointing in the right direction to fill spaces and gaps . |
| 15 | If this is your first experience in the role of main helper to someone close to you who has suffered a major loss , and if you have not yet suffered one yourself , you may find the strange variety and intensity of her emotions and her need for long-term support rather daunting . |
| 16 | Torino know that one goal will be enough for Aberdeen but despite continued poor league form and tonight 's absence of main striker Carlos Aguilera , the Italians still consider themselves favourites . |
| 17 | CHOICE OF MAIN MENU |
| 18 | If you knit the background colour on the ribber , floats of the pattern colour lie between the beds and are trapped between the rows of main colour stitches on the ribber and main bed . |
| 19 | South Vaagsö lies on a narrow strip of shoreline beneath a sheer rock face several hundred feet high , the town 's unpainted wooden buildings straggling along the three-quarters of a mile of main road running parallel to and some 50 yards from the shoreline . |
| 20 | The motorway ran out at Bergues , leaving twenty-two kilometres of main road still to be negotiated . |
| 21 | Summary of main findings and conclusions . |
| 22 | Summary of main findings |
| 23 | A written ( and usually also a formal verbal ) report will state : Objectives and terms of reference ; Summary of main findings and conclusions ; Detailed analysis of main findings ; Detailed reasoning behind main conclusions ; Appendices , tables , detailed supporting data and results ( etc ) . |
| 24 | A written ( and usually also a formal verbal ) report will state : Objectives and terms of reference ; Summary of main findings and conclusions ; Detailed analysis of main findings ; Detailed reasoning behind main conclusions ; Appendices , tables , detailed supporting data and results ( etc ) . |
| 25 | To help the traveller negotiate the world 's railroads ( about 800 thousand miles , 1.3 million kilometres of main routes ) Thomas Cook publish two remarkable handbooks which together list the world 's principal rail , shipping and bus timetables . |
| 26 | Our three quarter point is just before the gliding field of Rattlesden , but we can first confirm our position passing south abeam Bury St Edmunds ( N ) crossing a couple of main routes from the south into that Suffolk town . |
| 27 | An alternative is to take a data feed electronically from an established computerised accounting database , such as Extel Financial 's MicroEXSTAT , allowing full company analysis within seconds and tables of main customers to be drawn up and monitored automatically . |
| 28 | Activity in Oxford city hospitals is at present scattered across a number of main sites ( the John Radcliffe and Churchill Hospitals , the Radcliffe Infirmary , and the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre ) as well as several smaller specialised sites ( Warneford , Littlemore , Rivermead , etc . ) . |
| 29 | So it seemed to us that the the general sense and purpose of the policy was was not in a sense disputed but that er in order to avoid a leng what was considered at the time to be perhaps unnecessary detail and going into erm too much detail that er we felt that the agricultural land policies could be left to perform the sort of main objective that we were seeking through , I think it was E three at the time , was was the proposed policy . |
| 30 | Push the number of main bed needles given in pattern to working position . |