Example sentences of "two main [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Mawson published two main works , The Art and Craft of Garden Making ( 1900 ) , which ran into five editions , and Civic Art ( 1911 ) , in which he discussed the principles of town planning .
2 This is because of two main differences between Islam and Hinduism or Sikhism .
3 There would seem to be two main differences .
4 There seem to be two main differences here and the first undoubtedly influences the second .
5 Most people are already familiar with convection ovens which , in essence , is what the hot air mode is trying to achieve , but with two main differences — the ability to achieve 300°C and the waste air quenching system .
6 Two main differences , besides the obvious ones of speed , scale and aspirations , distinguish the French strike waves from the Italian .
7 Pentland , the sporting-goods group , said Berghaus , which had sales last year of about £20 million , would continue to operate from its two main sites in Washington , near Newcastle-upon-Tyne .
8 ‘ There are two main patterns .
9 Generally speaking , there are two main patterns of judicial recruitment — the European and the Anglo-Saxon .
10 Two main layers may be discerned in the cuticle , an outer epicuticle and an inner procuticle , both generally compound structures .
11 Two main dimensions of control systems are distinguished : the extent to which they are unified or fragmented , and the degree of impersonality of the system .
12 Again two main dimensions emerged from parents ' answers , called love-hostility and control-autonomy but referring essentially to the same features as the dimensions described by Sears and his colleagues .
13 Grammar is organized along two main dimensions : morphology and syntax .
14 This can have two main dimensions : first , that between the judge and the other participants in the process — lawyers , witnesses , police , juries ; second , in the courts where more than one judge sits , that among the judges themselves .
15 For buffets and fork suppers , serve one or two main dishes with a choice of salads and nibbles .
16 Inside , the drawing-room and dining-room are of different shapes , with long windows angled deliberately to catch the two main views of the estuary .
17 There are two main views of the rabbit .
18 Leaving him and a host of incidental tale-spinners aside , there are two main storytellers in the life of Prentice McHoan .
19 With hindsight it is possible to generalise about the two main directions in which this kind of sex difference research has developed since Lakoff .
20 Odling 's contributions to chemistry were in two main directions : medical and theoretical .
21 The interviews will deal with two main topics : first the continuing importance of the family as an economic unit in agriculture and the way it has adapted to changed circumstances ; secondly , the changing role of women in the farm economy .
22 At national level , there are two main tiers to the machinery .
23 A translator working from a language which has number distinctions into a language with no category of number has two main options : s/he can ( a ) omit the relevant information on number , or ( b ) encode this information lexically .
24 There are two main options : ( a ) routine antibiotic prophylaxis ; and ( b ) case-detection through screening .
25 Support for the two main clubs , Everton and Liverpool , still comes with a parental health warning about their respective religious pedigrees .
26 The committee argued that the two main agents for providing social care were the state , local and national , and the ‘ informal ’ sector , families and individuals helping one another .
27 The two main obstacles to the normalization of relations were identified as Japan 's demand that North Korea allow international inspection of its nuclear facilities , and North Korea 's insistence on compensation for alleged Japanese hostility over the previous 70 years .
28 Rank restaurants Ltd , a company within The Rank Organisation , operates two main brands , Pizza Piazza and Prima Pasta , and a small number of independent restaurants .
29 390 rooms in bungalows or two main residences .
30 In a 1972 paper I suggested that during the evolution of terrestrial open-country monkeys , two main selection pressures operated on the individuals whose collective strategies lead to the interactions and relationships that are responsible for the social structure ( see also Fig. 4.1 ) .
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