I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a main road (= an important road that is used a lot )
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The main road was blocked for twenty-five minutes.
a main/biggest/greatest enemy
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Terrorism is our country’s main enemy.
battery-powered/nuclear-powered/mains powered
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a nuclear-powered submarine
big/major/main etc polluter
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a list of Canada’s worst polluters
leading/main/major proponent
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Dr George is one of the leading proponents of this view.
main clause
main course
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What are you going to have for your main course?
main dish (= the biggest part of a meal )
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This soup is substantial enough to serve as a main dish .
main drag
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the restaurants that line the main drag
main line
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the main line to Moscow
main protagonists
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the main protagonists in the conflict
main road
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We live just off the main road.
Main Street
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The President’s new proposals won’t go down too well on Main Street.
main thesis
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Their main thesis was that the rise in earnings was due to improvements in education.
main thoroughfare
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The motel was off the main thoroughfare .
main thrust
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the main thrust of the government’s education policy
main/chief/central etc preoccupation
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Their main preoccupation was how to feed their families.
main/head office (= the most important office )
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The head office is in Edinburgh.
main/market/town square
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The hotel is just off the main square of Sorrento.
main/passenger/car etc deck
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a staircase leading to the passenger deck
mains electricity British English (= electricity supplied to a building from the national electricity supply )
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The cottage has no mains electricity.
sb's first/main task
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Their first task was to rebuild the wall.
sb's main/biggest concern
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My main concern is my children.
sb's main/chief competitor
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The company's main competitor is Vodaphone.
sb's main/chief opponent
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Who was her main opponent for the presidential nomination?
sb's main/chief rival
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Who is the champion's main rival?
sb’s main ambition
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What’s your main ambition in life?
sb’s main/biggest worry
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My biggest worry is that I might make a fool of myself.
sb’s main/primary goal
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My main goal was to get the team to the finals.
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The primary goal of the 1917 Revolution was to seize and redistribute the wealth of the Russian empire.
the keynote/main speaker (= the most important speaker )
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the keynote speaker at the seminar, Dr Paul Messina
the main attraction
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The lovely countryside is obviously the main attraction for visitors.
the main category
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This is the main category of patients.
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There are two main categories of university fees.
the main characteristic of sth
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A new interest in art was one of the main characteristics of this period.
the main criterion
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You need to decide on your main criteria before you buy a house.
the main culprit
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High production costs are the main culprit .
the main disadvantage
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The main disadvantage of iron as a material is its weight.
the main door (= the door into a building that most people use )
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The main door to the hotel is on Queen Street.
the main element (= most important )
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The reform programme has three main elements.
the main emphasis
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The main emphasis must be on quality, not quantity.
the main entrance
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She found a parking space close to the hospital's main entrance.
the main feature
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The main feature of the square is the Gothic cathedral.
the main focus
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The main focus of our attention will be on providing an efficient service.
the main gate (= where most people go in )
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Soldiers were guarding the main gate.
the main incentive
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What is the main incentive for people to join the army?
the main ingredient
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The main ingredient of the sauce is tomatoes.
the main meal
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They had their main meal at lunch time.
the main motive
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The main motive for the killings seemed to be revenge.
the main objection
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One of the main objections was that classes were being taught by untrained staff.
the main point
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Finally, I will summarise the main points of this chapter.
the main problem
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The main problem for the climbers was lack of sleep.
the main reason
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The main reason for the decline in the railways is lack of investment.
the main recommendation
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One of the main recommendations in the report is more parental involvement in education.
the main street (= the biggest street in a town or village )
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They drove slowly along the main street.
the main target
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The rebel-held town is one of the main targets for U S troops.
the main topic
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The main topics covered are finance, health and leisure.
the main type
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Methane is the main type of gas produced.
the main verb
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If a sentence does not have a main verb, it is not a full sentence.
the main/biggest/greatest etc obstacle
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The biggest obstacle to women's equality was social expectations of male and female roles.
the main/central/dominant theme
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The main theme of the book is the importance of honesty.
the main/central/leading character
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Alec is the central character in the play.
the main/chief opponent
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one of the new law's main opponents
the main/chief/principal guest
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The Prime Minister was one of the main guests at the event.
the main/master bedroom (= the biggest bedroom in a house )
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The master bedroom has a view of the sea.
the main/primary cause of sth
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Smoking is the main cause of lung disease.
the main/primary purpose
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The main purpose of our trip to Arran was to see golden eagles.
the main/primary source
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It started as a hobby, but now it is his main source of income.
the main/primary/principal aim
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The country’s main aim was to slow inflation.
the main/principal objective
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This research project has three main objectives.
the mains switch (= one that controls the supply of electricity to a house )
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The mains switch is located inside a cupboard near the front door.
the major/main/principal export
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Agricultural products are the country’s principal exports.
the prime/chief/main suspect
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She didn’t realise he was the prime suspect in a murder case.
the top/main/number one priority
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Controlling spending is his top priority.
water main
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a burst water main
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
aim
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The chapter's main aim is to examine the nature of that crossroads and how best to analyse it.
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The main aim of this chapter is to provide you with a grasp of political economy.
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There are four main aims of a zoo.
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The main aim of these reforms was not to meet need precisely and in a neat, targeted form.
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Both were marauding, tribal war-leaders whose main aim was to bring military glory to themselves and their followers.
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Our main aim is to help promote a competitive and efficient labour market.
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For the main aim of the project is to create an interesting and relevant scenario for their National Curriculum studies.
area
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The first-year course provides students with an introduction to the main areas of contemporary experimental psychology.
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Three main areas of cultural failure appeared, refusing to be corrected by my merely being on the street.
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The main area , still submerged, was contoured under water-all for rice fields that were no longer needed.
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Suggest this is the main area .
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Where are the main areas for early strawberries?
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Petrey outlines the main areas of disagreement and suggests an explanation for the differences between the two schools.
attraction
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Shutlingsloe is just one of the numerous miniature mountain gems in Britain where quality, not quantity is the main attraction .
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Country &038; western band Borrowed Money and party favors are the main attractions .
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The main attraction is one easier-to-use control system taking up less cab space.
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One of the main attractions of the scheme is its simplicity.
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Undoubtedly, the story itself is one of the main attractions .
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Southsea was the main attraction but Latimer Road contributed to drawing away the London skaters.
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Its main attractions are the optimal utilisation of permanent grassland and the control of internal parasitism without resort to therapy.
body
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And the trouble with names extends to quotations in the main body of the text.
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A main body with a small monitor sitting above the main workings of the machine, all encased in plastic.
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Parts were easy to replace and the chassis and main body built to withstand mileage.
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They were visibly anxious to rejoin the main body of men back on the Bowery.
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Although parts were scattered over the surrounding fields, the main body of the plane had landed in one piece.
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Crews had yet to recover the main body of the plane and the engine.
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The main body spots are grouped in rosettes.
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Just a ledge of sand jutting out from the main body of the island.
category
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To summarize, broadly speaking there are three main categories of such patients. 1.
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The programs available at present fall into four main categories , as outlined below.
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These fall into six main categories , information on the first five of which may be disclosed by the Bank.
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The main categories of change, and the processes through which they work are set out in Figure 2.5.
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The six main categories are discussed below.
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There are two main categories of segmentation criteria.
cause
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Although rates of mortality differ between men and women the main causes of mortality do not.
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Firearms, car accidents and falls are the main causes .
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The death of your guppies could stem from two main causes - a duff batch or, more seriously, Guppy Disease.
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Solar changes were the main cause from 1750 to 1850, but the greenhouse effect has been dominant in recent decades.
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Most climate scientists now agree that human activity is the main cause of global warming.
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There were two main causes of resentment.
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The country's dependence on motor vehicles appears to be the main cause .
character
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The main character has to be played by somebody who has, to a great extent, worked in reaction.
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The main characters are virtuous people, contending with afflictions throughout the play, but finally rewarded with happiness.
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The acquaintance is shocked, asks what could have happened to bring about this change, so the main character explains.
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Of course, all of this is arranged by the main character .
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The four main characters come from a mining community, but they've left it behind.
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To carry emotional moments, Miller pumps up the treacly soundtrack, lending it the importance of a main character .
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The main character in the incident he relates is a black man.
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The main character in the drama was full of contradictions.
concern
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What are their main concerns and how can you best meet them?
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Her main concern was grammar, diagramming sentences, that sort of thing.
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Male speaker Our main concern is about quality of care.
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The Staples people are entrepreneurs whose main concern is opposing taxes.
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That was strange but my main concern now was how to get to her, since she obviously wanted me.
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What were their main concerns , difficulties and problems?
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The main concern of Rawls's later work is to argue that this in itself should not undermine the liberal project.
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But the main concern of these works is to inhibit legal deviance rather than to encourage legal competence - whatever that may be.
course
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Breakfast is a buffet, and guests are offered a choice of main course at dinner.
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The cooks must make a soup, two main courses , at least one of them vegetarian, and two desserts.
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No one said a word until the waiters wheeled in the centrepiece of the main course .
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Typically, 2 birds are required per person for a main course and 1 bird per person for a salad course.
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Breakfast is a buffet, dinner is three courses with a choice of main course and a salad buffet.
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You will be hard pressed to choose a single main course because so many are mouth-watering.
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Breakfast is buffet style and dinner three courses with a choice of main course.
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If you are electing to have fish as your main course , bravo!
difference
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The main difference has been time spent on a tractor seat, however.
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The main difference is that men do not blame themselves for their ambivalence toward parenthood.
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It is the supervision by the court that is the main difference between a compulsory winding up and voluntary winding up.
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The main difference is that before we made quality of life enforcement a high priority.
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The main differences are the gauge and the number of extras that come with the machine.
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The main difference is that commas are more formal than dashes.
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It is important to understand the main differences between appeal and review.
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The main difference is that you wouldn't see any children through the day.
door
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The balcony above the main door has figures of miners on either side.
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Two girl-sized statues of angels holding fonts of holy water stood by the main door .
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The wicket in the main doors was still unlocked then, after they brought the horses back after the flood.
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The stone steps to the main door were chipped, crumbling, and dangerous for old people and toddlers.
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He glanced at the main door .
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Weatherstrip your main doors and you should stop that.
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He ran out through the main doors and looked to his right and left.
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I arrived a few minutes early, and found the main door locked.
entrance
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In peace and war, the Union Flag has fluttered above the main entrance .
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The two of us headed toward the main entrance without saying much.
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This prime site is adjacent to the dual carriageway at the main entrance to the port.
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Koi swim in a pond just inside the main entrance .
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The tramway carried sacks of grain directly to the mill's main entrance .
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It can only be reached by bus from the main entrance of the complex.
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On the pediment of the main entrance , the gold hands of the blue-painted clock moved towards the hour.
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First, they were shooed away from the main entrance .
factor
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There are two main factors underlying this change in the nature of the population distribution: decreased mortality and reduced fertility.
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Needham believes that the overly low assessment was caused by two main factors .
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There seem to be three main factors affecting overall gradient: 1.
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The main factor which takes most holidaymakers abroad is undoubtedly the better weather.
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The main factor for a road is public access, but where to draw the line causes difficulty.
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Price is now the main factor differentiating competing brands.
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There are five main factors which determine the structure of any industry.
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The second main factor is marital breakdown.
feature
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The main features marking the presence of a poltergeist are moving objects, electrical high jinks, or mysterious noises.
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Seen in those terms, three main features of the period were media concentration, conglomeration and internationalization.
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The system of management by a Trustee was the main feature of the bill.
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Since this type of parser is well documented, I will simply outline its main features .
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One of their main features is the heavy betting, often into four figures.
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Choose a moderately extensive table from a government publication and summarize its main features in, say, 700-800 words.
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For Young and Willmott, the symmetrical family has three main features .
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Nicholas had shown a preparedness to use diplomatic means which was to be the main feature of his conduct of international relations.
focus
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Thus the contradiction of stable industrial relations, low productivity and poor management constitutes the main focus of the study.
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A full discussion of democracy takes us far away from the main focus of this work.
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This is the main focus of attention in this chapter.
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The use of public funds to clean up the jusen mess will be the main focus of the session.
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The main focus of the project was a qualitative study of what helped adults cope on these courses.
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The main focus of attention is the library.
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The main focus of the campaign is a national one.
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Its main focus is foreign languages: teaching, learning, research and policy.
function
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Identify the main functions of the syndicate leader. 5.
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Its main function was teaching, through evening classes.
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Describe the five main functions of money. 3.
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Its main function , however, appears to be to present a better image of Sri Lanka to the outside world.
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The main function of scholarship surely lies in keeping alive the wonderful minds, works of art and thought of earlier generations.
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Its main function , however, is to ensure that the system rids itself of unwanted air.
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The main function of civil service participation in the work of the Cabinet and its committees is to work out interdepartmental compromises.
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In fact singing seems to serve two main functions in birds: defending territory, and attracting and stimulating females to mate.
gate
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Faintly disappointed, she emptied her lungs and resumed the walk which would bring her to the main gate .
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Two months after I had driven through the main gates , I finally got to the flight line.
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They were also concerned about security around the main gate .
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Once inside the main gate you could see how hard the designers were working to make it neat.
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A black van reversed through the shattered remains of the main gate and the back doors were thrown open.
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Show time is 7: 30 p. m. in Centennial Hall, located inside the main gate east of Park Avenue.
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The ride begins at 10.30am outside the main gates to Sherwood Forest Visitor Centre.
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C., anti-Semitic graffiti were spray-painted on the main gate and on a residence hall.
issue
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What are the main issues in professional higher education?
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One of the main issues today is the future of young people.
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Throughout the campaign we asked what people thought were the main issues being stressed by each of the parties.
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The main issue , they say, is safety.
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There are two main issues in the study of the Middle Pleistocene sequence.
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The discussions were centered squarely on the main issues of the day as seen in the two capitals.
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It is true that some opponents of the Government saw rearmament as the main issue - notably Churchill.
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But the main issue is that it extends the sentencing options available if the defendant is convicted.
line
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Electrification continued apace during the decade with the major investment on the East Coast main line and in East Anglia.
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On the main line , the remorseless reduction in fleet sizes resulted in Mark 3 vehicles steadily being more predominant.
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He outlined three main lines of supporting evidence.
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The Great Central is Britain's only preserved main line railway.
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It often consisted both of a main line and of branch families.
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Look carefully for single wires leading off the main lines and running across the fields to individual cottages.
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It would allow international trains to run directly into the key main lines beyond London.
meal
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A relaxed regime of visiting the lavatory after each main meal and at bedtime is established with the parents keeping a record.
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Wynnster Outdoor Cuisine Design: a range of nine main meals .
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It usually covers the cost of accommodation, breakfast, a main meal and return taxi fare from airport to hotel.
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Annabel Hogan was wondering whether to change the main meal of the day to the evening.
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Half-board - Accommodation, breakfast and one main meal , either luncheon or dinner.
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The main meal is often followed by something sweet.
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The main meal of the day may be eaten at lunch time or in the evening, according to your normal habit.
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Try to stick to the suggested menu and have your main meal at lunchtime.
objective
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It is to help us reach our organization's main objectives .
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It was then to carry out a landing on Attu, its main objective , 12 June, N plus 5.
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Its main objective is to make curricula more skill-based and student centred.
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Your main objective should be to sail as close to the wind as possible whilst maintaining speed.
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I shall set out what I see as the main objectives and the minefields that lie ahead.
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Mittleholzer says bluntly, ` the local papers were of no interest to me so far as my main objective was concerned.
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The main objective , however, is to knock the ball into the opposing goal.
office
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The main office door to their right was emblazoned with the logo: Stasis Computers, and it was open.
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The main office gradually returned to a semblance of normality.
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Over 600 people work for MI6 in its main office .
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For those, you have to traipse off to the main offices .
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The main offices of government were based at the Lateran by Innocent's time.
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The two men rose and went through the minister's anteroom into his main office .
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Patrick Kelly was in his main offices in Barking.
opposition
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It is also true that the two main Opposition parties have energy policies which are flatly contradicted by their environmental policies.
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Mr Ochirbat was immediately snapped up by the main opposition parties as their joint candidate.
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The main opposition parties boycotted the presidential election.
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The four main opposition parties announced on June 30 that they had formed the National Democratic Front to co-ordinate their election campaign.
part
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It falls into five main parts supplemented by seven schedules.
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For the main part of the Nagumo Force, however, Combined Fleet had other ideas.
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In the main part of the building the paintings are hung on the first and second floors.
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As you wind up the discussion, ask them to tell you how many main parts there are to your parachute drawing.
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It helps if one of the larger newspapers makes the main part around the head.
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In the main part of the research the relationships between these organisations are analysed by means of a large number of open ended interviews.
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She ran through the gate leading into the main part of the Park.
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Most of these studios have beautiful sea views, and are situated in the main part of the Manor house.
party
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There is constant negotiation between the whips of the main parties over the use of parliamentary time.
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But skeptics predicted that an anti-Le Pen union would soon fall victim to rivalry between the main parties .
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He was responsible to the Politburo, the main party committee which decided all major issues of policy.
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Visitors from the three main parties will be attending the school today.
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What makes the situation in Britain today so worrying is that the leaders of both main parties agree on virtually everything.
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The two main parties are still neck and neck, pointing to a hung Parliament.
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Unless the two main parties can agree on a successor a contest seems inevitable.
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When it comes to third world development the Bishop says he gives each of the three main parties two cheers.
point
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It is this paradox, according to Brooks, that is the main point of the poem.
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Generally, follow these rules: Letters and memos: List the main points for the entire document.
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Reports and proposals of 2-5 pages: List the main points for the entire document.
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The main point is that we can do nothing to change matters.
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The main point of contention now is not whether, but how long a scaled-down force should remain.
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The main points of debate at the meeting are covered below.
points
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The task of drawing out the main points from the mass of data takes considerable practice and is time consuming.
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Generally, follow these rules: Letters and memos: List the main points for the entire document.
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It seems appropriate to emphasise four main points when summarising the above discussion: 5.
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Reports and proposals of 2-5 pages: List the main points for the entire document.
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Then, list the main points for each section.
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In order to summarise a lecture you need to listen carefully to the lecturer and record the main points as they are made.
problem
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The Robins' main problem , is a long list of injuries.
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There are two main problems with fast-track projects: design changes and cost overruns.
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There have been two main problems .
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The two main problems of pie making on this scale are finance and public health.
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But the main problem goes deeper and will take longer to solve.
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With over 30 million subscribers, the main problem is finding a username you might want.
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The main problem was that the missile launchers were often mobile, moving from site to site.
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The main problem with the simple yield to maturity, though, is that it does not take into account compound interest.
purpose
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But one main purpose , protecting the small investor, barely arises with debt securities.
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The main purpose of Levin's article, however, is to reclaim Debord for the aesthetic discourse of avant-garde cinema.
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The main purpose of reviving the Council was to co-ordinate the republics' independence strategies.
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The main purpose of the pro-am has nothing to do with golf.
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The main purpose of these beacons is: 1.
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You need to jot down the main purpose , headings, ideas ... then build your structure before you begin.
reason
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In most cases, lack of flexibility is one of the main reasons for this problem during the backswing.
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The main reason for this growth was that Congress no longer trusted the executive branch to provide it with accurate information.
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There are three main reasons for taking care of an elderly person.
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The program was the main reason for the lending decline in 1994, he said.
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There is little justification in using weights derived from individually based analyses in a regional formula for two main reasons .
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There are two main reasons why these unemployed workers do not find jobs immediately.
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Even though political influence was not chosen as the main reason , both countries take it seriously.
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One of the main reasons why new halfpennies went out of use was that too many were lost.
rival
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Swapo and its main rival , the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance, have accused each other of violent intimidation during the campaign.
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Harkin nevertheless won all of the state's delegates since none of his four main rivals reached 15 percent.
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His main rival has been tuning up on Burford golf course.
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Stockton, a game in hand, emerged as Wearside's main rivals .
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The parliament chairman, Ruslan Khasbulatov, Mr Yeltsin's main rival , denied the assembly was concentrating power in its hands.
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Mr Jereissati's main rival so far is Jose Serra, the health minister.
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His main rival at the Express was another young rising star, Kelvin Mackenzie, who handled news.
road
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The present Holy Trinity church was consecrated in 1845 on a site on the main road and beside an already established village.
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We had been coming on to the main road at about five miles an hour when three men had blocked our exit.
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Across the main road is the Palácio de São Lourenço.
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He hurried on, sighting Clare and Underwood in the distance just turning off the main road up the hill.
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Illetas, off the main road between La Sabina and Es Pujols, is possibly the most popular.
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All you had to do was drive off the ferry, find the main road , and drive straight to Dublin.
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Beyond the defended area, there are far fewer side-streets and lanes and occupation was concentrated along the main road frontages.
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Detectives say some one on the main road most have seen the rope being tied in place at about 8.30 p.m. last night.
source
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Our main source of entertainment was the cinema.
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Their main source of income came from doughnuts.
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The rewards of motherhood made it her main source of self-esteem and satisfaction.
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The three main sources of short-term financing are trade credit, short-term commercial bank loans, and commercial paper.
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Pearls Of the two main sources of pearls those from marine molluscs have always been preferred to those from freshwater.
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The Yahgans used canoes to hunt marine creatures, their main source of food.
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Along with social and economic instability, they are among the main sources of crisis, loss of life and human misery.
square
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Then he hurried away towards the main square .
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The Handbook suggested a Ricardo Quispe Mamani who also had a small restaurant on the main square .
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Participants said the city's main square was filled to capacity.
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The main square holds the three buildings of importance.
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It's across the main square in the town centre.
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In many towns and villages the local population gathers round the main square , or church.
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To park the bikes we had to strike a deal with the children in the main square .
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The mayor of Bucharest on Aug. 28 declared an indefinite ban on all meetings and demonstrations in central Bucharest's main squares .
street
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He had the choice of half-a-dozen alleys which led off the main street and climbed to the terraces.
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We turned off the main street into a narrow, shaded alley.
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Ahead the lights of the main streets beckoned.
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The last time that happened was in 1950, when Manvel's main street stood a foot deep in water.
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In the main street he paused for a rest.
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The road begins to wind downward; they are now passing along the main street .
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There is a stroll up the long main street as far as the last houses of the village.
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Couples were drifting down the side streets and back on to the main street toward the cars.
task
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Their main task seemed to be to inspect the landing grounds that extended across the route from Baghdad to Damascus.
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If Yeltsin wins, he has two main tasks .
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Make a list of main tasks .
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Bringing that down will be one of the main tasks facing the new government.
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Still much to do, but main task done.
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He highlighted the reduction of inflation and the stimulation of economic growth as its two main tasks .
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Why would this help with the microcode's main task , of decoding and executing machine instructions?
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But the cat has only had one main task throughout its long history of domestication and that is vermin-killing.
theme
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I shall build up to this point using a specific example which is the other main theme of this chapter.
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The main theme is that the duties and responsibilities of each person in the organization are unambiguously defined.
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The booklet was divided into the four main themes identified above.
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After providing a brief overview of the chronology of urban unrest during the 1980s, the chapter concentrates on two main themes .
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It is remarkable how this interest extends even to topics which do not seem related to the main themes of his studies.
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There are many continuing themes in this novel and in my opinion the main theme is that of contentment.
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In this talk I want to explore two main themes .
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The legends are consistent in widely separate places and give a good cross-section of the main themes .
thing
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Still it was appreciated and thats the main thing .
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The main thing we export is food.
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As for the LeBaron, the main thing in its favour was that the roof came off.
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The main thing is the head.
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Tic main things to are how to a phrase, how to search on multiple, and how to exclude certain words.
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Learning about the place or even being there is not the main thing .
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Yes... yes, that's the main thing , I have you.
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That was the main thing , there was very little money, so we charged everything.
thrust
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The main thrust of the operation has not been internalised or understood.
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This is currently the main thrust of new thinking about Bach.
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The main thrust of the President's speech was an effort to appease the white right wing.
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That is the main thrust of the vision.
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Nevertheless, supply-side doctrine provided a theoretical underpinning for the main thrust of his economic strategy.
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The move away from project loans and towards structural adjustment loans in the 1980s does not diminish the main thrust of this argument.
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It was decided that the main thrust of the research should be in the domain of economic and political socialisation during adolescence.
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The main thrust of Mr. Lester's submissions for the defendants has never previously been considered in the context of libel.
type
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The main types of services likely to be offered are described below.
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Here he outlines a division into four main types that correspond to those of Longobardi as supplemented by Sainte-Marie.
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To elaborate a little further, it is useful to examine each of the main types of subdivisions, as follows. 1.
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Two main types of weight-loss surgery are performed these days.
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There are three main types of audit.
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In the case of such groups there are, I think, three main types of relation to practical politics.
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There are three main types of prevention, known as primary, secondary and tertiary.
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It is possible to identify three main types of historical writing - descriptive, narrative and analytical.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an eye for/on/to the main chance
sb's (main) squeeze
the main drag
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Our hotel is right on the main drag .
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We went into this restaurant called Cooter's, right there on the main drag .
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Eventually he turned off the main drag into the sidestreets and from there it was only minutes before he reached Hesper Mews.
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He turns off the main drag .
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He went south toward Calle Ocho, the main drag of Little Havana.
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Our hotel, the four-star Elea Beach, stands off the main drag at the end of a quiet lane.
the main drag
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Eventually he turned off the main drag into the sidestreets and from there it was only minutes before he reached Hesper Mews.
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He turns off the main drag.
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He went south toward Calle Ocho, the main drag of Little Havana.
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Our hotel, the four-star Elea Beach, stands off the main drag at the end of a quiet lane.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Ben's main problem was lack of money.
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Gigi will be working the main cash register.
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I think the next main road is where we have to turn left.
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Our main concern was "What did we do wrong?"
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The main reason kids don't get vaccinated is that parents don't realize how important it is.
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We walked up the stairs to the main entrance of the building.
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Well, that's the main reason I was calling.
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You should clearly state your main idea at the beginning of the essay.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After a week of work, he managed to build the main logic board.
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Consumer Research and Electronic Commerce Evaluating customer preference is the main uncertainty facing application designers.
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It's possible that he tiptoed down the passage and came in by the main door.
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My grandparents' village was a small place off the main road, away from busy roads and with no mains services.
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The main reason for this change is money, and the consequent pressure on hospital beds.
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The study came up with two main conclusions.
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This chapter provides a brief summary of the main findings of the initial destinations survey.
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Unusual numbers of dead holly trees with senescent branches or main trunks; 2.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
water
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Building London's ring water main is not a job for the fainthearted.
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According to Culver, water mains in Baltimore and in most older, large metro areas are loaded with metal filings.
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A water main froze and broke in the neighborhood, and the streets have been flooded for two days.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A broken water main flooded the building's garage.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Building London's ring water main is not a job for the fainthearted.
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But in the main , he found that a man must hammer out his theology alone.
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Heberle confirms the mains will be buried between 36 inches and 44 inches deep.
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I think that, in the main , they are.
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They feed, in the main , on flowering plants, themselves evolved from ancestors without flowers.