Example sentences of "[noun sg] be the main " in BNC.
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| 1 | Handpainted wallpapers , a round room and a galleried landing with cupola are the main features of the Georgian part of the house . |
| 2 | The Royal National Institute for the Blind says squash and badminton are the main culprits for eye casualties , and has begun the campaign of safe play as part of their eye safety year . |
| 3 | The report says that the old boys ' network and prejudice are the main barriers to a woman 's career progress . |
| 4 | Cheap land and labour are the main attractions . |
| 5 | The reason for this , experts believe , is that the hormonal changes which occur before menstruation are the main cause of PMS . |
| 6 | Perhaps the most important thing about ethical positivism is that it is incompatible with force being the main focus of law 's methods and impact . |
| 7 | Sole trading and partnership were the main forms of business organization until the twentieth century , yet partnership law until the partnership Act , 1890 , was ‘ on many central issues … |
| 8 | ( The first subsection is the main exception . ) |
| 9 | very , very busily , a busy road and erm I know er , er speeding the main , causes the most accidents , if , if , you probably right , I mean speed is the main cause , I use that road way at night con , conforming with all traffic regulations , been overtaken by vehicles at speed . |
| 10 | Once again rural violence is the main story in our programme . |
| 11 | Lactose is the main sugar found in all animal milks , including human breast milk ( the name means ‘ milk sugar ’ ) . |
| 12 | It warned that " national splittism is the main threat to Xinjiang 's stability " and called for " high vigilance " . |
| 13 | Industry is the main way countries bring in the money they need for food , education and health . |
| 14 | An unusual version of the Plough Monday custom has recently been revived at Whittlesea , near Peterborough , where a straw bear is the main feature of the procession . |
| 15 | When the destabilizing stratification is strong , becomes large in the outer part of the boundary layer and buoyancy is the main source of turbulence generation there . |
| 16 | Rapid burial is the main factor along with continual subsidence of the land surface to stop predators from getting at it . |
| 17 | The Uzi sub-machine gun with the folding stock was the main armament . |
| 18 | In ( the ) study of neighbours , the focused interview was the main method used … |
| 19 | Several people mentioned that getting as far as the interview was the main problem . |
| 20 | Family casework was the main approach adopted , using counselling methods , modelling and play . |
| 21 | Starvation and cold are the main agendas today . ’ |
| 22 | Money and skilled manpower are the main constraints . |
| 23 | However , much of the research on code-switching to date ( Gumperz 's own work being the main exception ) has dealt with much more readily separable codes such as Spanish/English ( e.g. Poplack 1980 ) or Italian/German ( e.g. Auer 1984a ) . |
| 24 | Cereals either as corn , flour or bread were the main concern but other foods , notably cheese and meat , were also seized and re-sold at " just " prices . |
| 25 | C. In the old industrial towns on the coalfield , where textiles and mining were the main industries , there is much unemployment . |
| 26 | The American Civil War broke out in 1860 , with Abraham Lincoln becoming the President of U.S.A. in 1861 , the abolishing of slavery being the main issue and it was formally abolished in the U.S.A. in 1863 although the Civil War raged on until 10th . |
| 27 | In the ‘ dependent ’ world of the first half of the 20th century , movements for national liberation and independence were the main agents for the political emancipation of most of the globe , that is to say for an elimination of imperial administration and , more significantly , direct military domination by the imperial powers . |
| 28 | And , since this network acts as the main means of managing and assessing social esteem , marriage is the main means by which women gain this form of local power . |
| 29 | The sun is the main cause of skin cancer , the second most common cancer in the UK . |
| 30 | The sun is the main source of light rays , and humans , remarkably , manage to exploit the complex echoes that bounce off objects when light rays from the sun hit them . |