THE Academy Awards ceremony is a long, lavish event whose main function is to provide answers to future trivia questions.
Time for stronger medicine: I loaded up LeechBlock, a free add-on for Firefox whose main function is to save you from yourself.
There are endless cases of architects' being reduced to the level of decorator: convenient cultural lubricants whose main function is to help the public digest increasingly cynical developments.
Identifying the "right" toxin is particularly difficult when the disease affects the kidney, an organ whose main function is to clear the blood of toxins.
The dress of miko (girl attendants at shrines), whose main function is ceremonial dance, also typically consists of a divided skirt and a white kimono.
"Consumers on their own looking for quality information about doctors are at a real disadvantage," said Barry Scholl, a spokesman for the quality assurance committee, whose main function is to set standards and accredit managed care plans.
BBC Scotland, though, needs a champion from inside the organisation; unfortunately, in the cowering figure of MacQuarrie, it has merely a London-appointed factor, whose main function is to keep the lights on, keep the licence fees rolling in and to make sure BBC Jockoland doesn't get too many ideas above itself.
Earthwatch, whose main function is sponsoring trips, picks outside researchers.
However, they exclude income from traders whose main function is brokering with a different risk exposure.
MicroRNAs (miRs) are short non-coding RNA molecules whose main function is to down-regulate gene expression.
