Sentence examples for main to a from inspiring English sources

On Sunday, British soldiers completed a short pipeline from a Kuwaiti water main to a pumping station a few hundred feet inside Iraq.

Each was connected by its own main to a special pumping station, ennsuring a reserve of high-pressure water for fighting hard-to-reach fires in tall buildings.

The Wag – a nightclub that catered, in the main, to a gang of non-conformist mavericks – was thoroughly appropriate to that crowd.

To make matters worse, nuisance calls have increased in number over the past five years thanks, in the main, to a rising number of calls from accident claim companies and the discovery that banks were mis-selling PPI.

On day two Middlesex finished on 133 for five, 282 runs ahead and firmly in control thanks in the main to a spell-of-a-lifetime from Ollie Rayner, who took eight for 45 during 65 minutes after lunch against a batting order that dissolved like a damp-infested lath and plaster wall at the first hint of pressure.

The view from his window is gray, out across an old bridge over the Main to a church spire on the other side, and behind the church the high-rises of Frankfurt's little Manhattan (with 15 more skyscrapers planned), and along the river bank the Jewish Museum, everywhere the impression of a shattered history.

Rotate the main switch from "L" to "A".

(In November, Theranos moved its main offices to a larger space a few miles away).

Of course, the main advantage to a home swap is the savings.

There are three main avenues to a teenager's heart: sex, food, music.

The main impediment to a deal now, they say, is more psychological than substantive.