Use "in the main" in a sentence
in the main example sentences
in the main
1. There was always a fire on the hearth in the main house for Dawnsleep, every week of the year
2. It’s a large village with a very active social spirit and I know Emma and Adrian get involved in a lot of the activities which, as has been the case throughout the centuries, are in the main organised by the church generally and, more specifically, by the vicar
3. Five minutes later, I stand beside Stephen in the main room of the annexe
4. As long as she was in the main thoroughfare it would be difficult if not downright foolhardy for anyone to attack her … but there was a stretch just the other side of the river where the pedestrian path separated from the road, sloping down into a sort of culvert … a subway … if I were going to ambush someone, that’s where I’d choose
5. ‘The herbmaster and I in the main
6. A small child is playing with wooden bricks on the rug in the main room; he looks up at me curiously as I go through the room
7. Where a shaft of light has managed to break through the canopy, there are bright green ferns, but in the main, it is easy going over the pine-needle strewn ground with no bushes or undergrowth
8. By week Chezhervizhod they were in the main enthora plantations
9. Once in the main auditorium, he saw that there was a cage on the stage lit by a single spotlight and in the cage he saw the crumpled form of a young woman, who was, he was sure, wearing the very same dress that his beloved had been wearing when she was so cruelly snatched away from him the previous evening
10. We went in the main living room when everyone was out of the building
11. ‘In the main they did, the worst that happened was that Adamant scratched his hind quarters when he was scrambling up the bank but it looks like a fairly superficial cut – one of the men said he would look at it for me
12. The audio was far too risque also, but I would have kept that in the main log
13. Tarak asked her if she and Kai would rather ride out the storm here in the main Hold
14. They began showing up in the main engine room walking around taking measurements and making notes, much to the chagrin of Chief Swanson
15. Once in the main auditorium, he saw that there was a cage on
16. onlookers in the main parliamentary square, "we are the greatest
17. Out in the main auditorium a bell rings and Ted Line announces a twenty minute break
18. were still gathered in the main square when the
19. The only thing that Billy can see is the body in the wings, Leona's body, laid out on a trolley in the main mortuary room, ready for inspection by the Coroner's Officer prior to Monday's autopsy
20. There were a couple of shops huddled together in the main street
21. The majority of people in the main reception area are middle aged or older, which, Alex thinks, is how things should be
22. It was lit by a single big candle under the teapot in the main room giving just enough light to keep her from bumping into things
23. The carriage lights on either side of the porch are on and the glow of table lamps in the sitting room filters out through the glass in the main door to the house
24. In the main hallway of the school not only did everyone have the paper in
25. We were seated a couple of tables away from the piano in the main room
26. interest was directed at something down in the main hall,
27. He wasn't intentionally vague about what else he had 'been up to,' except to ask if Chloe had any practical experience in the maintenance of a house, beyond its management
28. The house was almost dark when she entered, just the coals of Valla's supper fire glowed in the main room
29. In the main square of Gouda is an Italian restaurant
30. It was open on the north, over twelve feet high in the main room, over nine in each sleeping wing
31. We are more industrious than our forefathers, because, in the present times, the funds destined for the maintenance of industry are much greater in proportion to those which are likely to be employed in the maintenance of idleness, than they were two or three centuries ago
32. If he uses it as a capital, he employs it in the maintenance of productive labourers, who reproduce the value, with a profit
33. If he uses it as a stock reserved for immediate consumption, he acts the part of a prodigal, and dissipates, in the maintenance of the idle, what was destined for the support of the industrious
34. I’ll probably sleep in one of the guest suites in the main house
35. She carried an interesting little device in her hands and was pointing it at the larger chunks of jetsam visible in the main viewer
36. “In the simplest scenario, there was an accident in the main ship that caused a chain-reaction through the little fleet
37. As there is more than 70% water in the body it plays a very important role in the maintenance of heat and circulation of blood etc
38. The original expenses consist in the instruments of husbandry, in the stock of cattle, in the seed, and in the maintenance of the farmer's family, servants, and cattle, during at least a great part of the first year of his occupancy, or till he can receive some return from the land
39. “I don’t think we even have that kind of equipment in the main cargo hold,” replied Richard, “No, nothing that would realistically cut through five centimetres of bulkhead without several days’ work
40. Her own first officer, Stephen Redcliff, was checking the inventory of equipment and supplies in the main cargo hold
41. Instead they had to be connected in the maintenance bay below the flight deck
42. Surrounding it were display panels, much like in the maintenance bay but with symbols that even without seeing from close-up appeared somehow odd: green and blue shapes swirling
43. upon almost all the different branches of their trade, to be employed by the company in the maintenance of their forts and garrisons
44. Only in the main lobby (a place she’d only been through upon her arrival) were there the few security staff, who stared at her impassively
45. In those days the principal expense of the sovereign seems to have consisted in the maintenance of his own family and household
46. that stuff together I want it put in the main hangerbay
47. Even if the numbers are exaggerated, the information is probably true in the main, as virgin's blood is supposed to contain very sacred properties, and much of the Juju or fetish medicine of the West Africans must be obtained from different parts of a young girl immediately after slaughter
48. Once clear of shallow water he kicked in the main ballast thrusters and took the Dawn down until she was running a few metres above the sea bed, the steady ping of the sonar sounding the way in his headset
49. Now and again he instructed her on one or two finer points of shooting, but in the main let her get on with it
50. Then, with one more glance at Leland, he turned his steed again and rode back down the road, at a hard gallop, moving to rejoin the main party