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Collocations for main - noun

1.

ADJECTIVE

gas, water
broken (AmE), burst (BrE)
water damage from broken mains
There's a burst water main in Quarry Road.
rising (BrE)
cast-iron (esp. BrE)

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VERB + main

lay
They're laying a new gas main through the town.
replace
repair

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main + VERB

serve sth
The main serves four towns.

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2. (mains) (BrE)

MAINS + NOUN

electricity, gas, water
an island without mains electricity

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PREPOSITION

at the mains
Turn the water off at the mains.
on the mains
Some of the remoter houses in the town are not on the mains.

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PHRASES

connected to the mains
The house is not yet connected to the mains.

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Collocations for main - adj.

Main is used with these nouns:
achievement, act, actor, actress, advantage, agent, aim, altar, ambition, area, argument, artery, aspect, asset, attraction, attribute, bathroom, bedroom, body, building, campus, cause, centre, challenge, challenger, chamber, character, characteristic, city, clause, competitor, complaint, component, concern, conclusion, consequence, consideration, contender, contention, contributor, corridor, course, courtyard, criterion, criticism, culprit, deck, demand, desk, difference, dimension, disadvantage, discipline, dish, distinction, distributor, door, drawback, drift, effect, element, emphasis, enemy, entrance, event, exception, exit, exponent, export, faction, factor, feature, finding, flaw, flow, focus, force, foyer, function, gate, goal, hall, hallway, heading, headquarters, highlight, highway, hope, hurdle, idea, impact, impediment, impetus, implication, import, impression, incentive, indicator, ingredient, instrument, interest, issue, item, line, loser, meal, menu, message, mission, motivation, motive, object, objection, objective, obstacle, occupation, offender, office, opponent, page, part, participant, partner, party, pattern, plank, plot, post office, preoccupation, priority, problem, purpose, reason, recipient, recommendation, representative, requirement, residence, responsibility, rival, road, role, room, route, sail, section, shareholder, shopping centre, shortcoming, source, speaker, sponsor, square, stage, stair, staircase, stem, story, strand, street, stress, stumbling block, subject, supplier, support, suspect, tank, target, task, text, theme, thesis, thing, thread, threat, thrust, topic, track, trail, trend, tributary, type, value, vehicle, verb, witness, worry

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