Example sentences of "the main " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the moment it looks like my usual stint of ironing on Thursday and shopping on Friday are the main fixtures , but anything can happen before then . |
| 2 | The main opposition group in this region is the armed Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam ( LTTE ) whose political aim is a separate Tamil homeland ( Eeelam ) in North-East Sri Lanka . |
| 3 | Predictably , the main sufferers since fighting flared once more in June 1990 have been the civilian populations — Tamil , Sinhalese and Moslem . |
| 4 | Some of the main efforts of historians in the first decades of the twentieth century had been directed to putting order into a mass of material , analysing works and documents , and establishing historical data . |
| 5 | It is literature within the last three centuries , then , that provides the main choices for a reader . |
| 6 | Constable 's own personality and opinions are thus the main gain of a reader from Leslie 's book . |
| 7 | The main strength of this sort of monograph is its potential for detailed interpretation . |
| 8 | He spent the rest of his life in expertise , painstakingly cataloguing the pictures and drawings of his favoured period , the Italian Renaissance , and in giving advice , notably to the great Bostonian collector , Mrs Gardner , and the main dealer of the period , Joseph Duveen . |
| 9 | The ancient , weathered oak is the main motif , a theme as much used and loved by the Romantic poets and painters as the old willow tree . |
| 10 | In this instance the individual exhibited items are unnumbered and put in a check list ; the main critical writing is within 136 pages , written in ten sections by Judith E. Stein ( six sections ) and Ann-Sargent Wooster ( four sections on video ) . |
| 11 | The main need of these artists was for good opportunities to exhibit their work ; unlike the equally celebrated group Die Brücke ( The Bridge ) they did not work closely together . |
| 12 | There is a chapter which discusses the letters from Germans — ‘ good Germans ’ in the main — which were sent to him in response to his book about the camps . |
| 13 | Being nervous and taking risks are two of the main things you will have to face as an aspiring actor , and that first time you read a play with a group of strangers , rather than in a classroom or among friends is when you confront your first hurdle . |
| 14 | But you may not actually learn much , simply because the main object of the group will not be to help you but to get on and do the play , relying on the skills available and hoping that the audience will give adequate support . |
| 15 | And one of the main advantages of these very compressed and arduous courses is that they give students approaching drama school entry an opportunity of seeing what will be required of them should they gain a place at drama school . |
| 16 | Some schools will stipulate a number of Shakespearean speeches from which you may select , but in the main the choice of work is left entirely to you . |
| 17 | Some lines previous to the main speech have been incorporated here . |
| 18 | I walked out of the village , got to the main road , turned right instead of left and here I am . |
| 19 | And the fact that you already have a good instinct for acting will probably have been the main reason why you passed your entrance audition for drama school . |
| 20 | Either way , the main intention will be to establish a way of working , and to begin assessing students ' voice and movement abilities . |
| 21 | Most of these exercises are double cast so that there are good opportunities for several readings of the main characters . |
| 22 | The main thing is that it needs to look like you ! |
| 23 | The SDLP , still the main party of catholic nationalists in Ulster , has dropped much of its socialist platform and maintains a delicate balance between nationalism and pragmatism in its politics . |
| 24 | It would seem that the special state character of Northern Ireland , with its very legitimacy always under threat , has been the main reason for the maintenance of this pattern of politics . |
| 25 | Firstly , the Ulster Special Constabulary , invented to supplement the main police force , was derived largely from the former Ulster Volunteer Force . |
| 26 | The main economic differences reflect the different structures of the state and the different state policies adopted by the British and Irish governments at any one time , though with a significantly higher state sector of employment in Ulster . |
| 27 | In the Northern statelet , the power of the main protestant churches at present remains subordinate to that of the fundamentalists and the religious political societies . |
| 28 | But this will not be the main focus of attention here ; to make the general point requires tracing only the impact of the specific church teaching of the period on constitutional law and its implementation in Ireland . |
| 29 | In addition , paragraph 3 of the same article recognized the main protestant churches then existing in Ireland . |
| 30 | It appeared that one of the main sources of the bishops ' opposition was the authoritarian nature of the legislation . |