main theme
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmainandtheme
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main
adjective[before noun]
uk/meɪn/us/meɪn/
larger, more important, or having more influence than others of the ...
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theme
noun[C]
uk/θiːm/us/θiːm/
the main subject of a talk, book, ...
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(Definition ofmainandthemefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofmain theme
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However, themainthemeof the play focuses on the issue of legitimate resistance to tyranny.
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Rather than presenting amaintheme, the ethicist should be an expert in harmony.
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The interaction of morpho-syntax and tone is the secondmainthemeof the volume.
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The historical changes in their role is themainthemeof this book.
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This exercise constitutes anothermainthemeof social capital theory.
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Let us now consider how this is linked to boredom, themainthemeof this essay.
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Themainthemelinking the two volumes is the idea of a fiscal constitution.
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The book'smainthemeregarding stock selection is one familiar to finance professors and their students.
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The soloist starts with themaintheme, an ascending, budding melody of longbreathed radiance.
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Although often suggestive, these essays are tangential to themainthemeof the conference.
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Is it an introduction or amaintheme?
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It is exactly this instability which provides themainthemeof this paper.
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And this is the secondmainthemeof interest, a less directly stated analytical framework.
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This regulatory role for polyvalent metal ions will be themainthemeof the present review.
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Hismainthemeis that it is wrong-headed to strive to avoid 'ordinary language'.
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In fact, it was themainthemeof virtually all his quarterly reports until 1869.
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Culture is the nextmaintheme.
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As the title suggests, themainthemeis life during the 1950s and the author approaches this in a strict chronological fashion, with each chapter encompassing a year.
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Amainthemethroughout the book is the well-established idea that small effective population sizes of large organisms leads to low efficacy of selection.
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