Example sentences of "[coord] the main " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sew this with matching cotton , or the main yarn . |
| 2 | Serve them as a vegetable , as a snack or the main meal , served with a salad . |
| 3 | You must overcome the difficulty of abundant information by concentrating on your basic response to the question or the main line of argument . |
| 4 | By a similar slip of logic it is sometimes presumed in such discussions that voluntary bodies are the only or the main beneficiaries of voluntary help and cash aid . |
| 5 | Next time you walk down the High Street in your home town , or the main shopping street of your region 's biggest city , stop at every telephone box you see . |
| 6 | Now , working from sketches ( often of a type relating to the work of 1909 and early 1910 ) Picasso uses the outlines or the main directional lines of the body and its limbs as the starting point for his compositions . |
| 7 | Though most women take some sort of weird maternal joy in this , being a single parent or the main money-earner in the family can lead to financial problems when she has to stop work . |
| 8 | What she 'd had was a double-booking , effectively , cos she 'd had this dinner which was meant to be in the private dining hall , but the numbers had suddenly shot up , and because they 'd said originally they wanted either the private dining hall or the main dining hall depending on numbers , she should have really booked them both and decided later and told me to like try somewhere else , but she did n't , she told me yeah the dining hall 's free . |
| 9 | We can believe that Roman justice had many advantages : but there is copious evidence that the prestige of the papal courts was not the sole nor the main motive of many litigants . |
| 10 | These specific initiatives , however , represent neither the only nor the main use which the unemployed make of the Institute 's resources . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Looking further out you will probably be able to see dozens of fields and also the lie of the land and the main slopes . |
| 13 | Here was the Acropolis , which had dominated the city since the second millennium BC , and older than Judaic Jerusalem ( King David 's city ) by 500 years ; the Agora , the civic centre , formerly situated between the Acropolis and the main gate to the city ; both being crowned by the remains of the Parthenon , that geometric and architectural treasure widely copied — from Birmingham , England , to Nashville , Tennessee . |
| 14 | However , this is a book about the philosophy of mind rather than experimental psychology , and the main point that I want to make is rather more philosophical than psychological . |
| 15 | Other new routes coming into fruition have included the welding together of the trans-Pennine services between Leeds and Manchester with those starting back at Newcastle , Scarborough , Hull and the main line to Liverpool , with connections to Chester and North Wales . |
| 16 | It 's bad enough looking through the new sections and the main articles and seeing nothing mentioned less than E4 , 6b . |
| 17 | A lower compartment with a curved zipper offers easy and quick access to things like waterproofs or extra sweaters , and the main bag itself has a zip-out divider , which I found to be quite useful . |
| 18 | The top lid is detachable , and the main pack extends quite easily . |
| 19 | Moreover , its big-name client base so far is largely confined to Sainsbury , Gateway and the main petrol retailers . |
| 20 | Union membership fell from over 13 million in 1979 to 10 million in 1986 ( or from 54 per cent to 46 per cent of the work-force ) and the main losers were the general unions in manufacturing . |
| 21 | The Shiplake Open on the Thames was a victim because the lock cuts were frozen and the main river was a mass of ice floes . |
| 22 | Guambia 's historical claim on the island has become more significant since oil was discovered , and the main reason for the invasion is economic . |
| 23 | The prison is locked up , the inmates are counted and the main staff go off duty . |
| 24 | The impending retirement of Mr Arias , Nobel prize winner and the main motivator , has increased uncertainty . |
| 25 | English China Clays has been downgraded on the stock market because of its housebuilding stakes , but quarrying and the main international paper industry supply business are far more important . |
| 26 | IWAS seven in 1980 and the main excitement was the arrival of a baby brother . |
| 27 | He insisted the scheme was not in tatters and the main effect of the banks ' decision would be to make applying for a loan less convenient for students . |
| 28 | I would often hear from my assistant who now looks after Cher , but at that time was delegated to looking after me , and she would say that she 'd just come back from the MainMan offices and the main office door was closed into DeFries 's inner sanctum and there were raised voices between him and David in there . |
| 29 | And the main talking-shop with workers is not the union but a quarterly ‘ company council ’ with delegates elected by all employees . |
| 30 | Link them , and the main result will be interminable delay . |