I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a principal witness (= a main witness )
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The principal witness was too ill to testify.
principal boy
sb's primary/chief/principal concern
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The president said his primary concern was the welfare of the American people.
the leading/principal actor (= acting the most important part )
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Schwarzeneeger was one of Hollywood’s leading actors.
the main/chief/principal guest
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The Prime Minister was one of the main guests at the event.
the main/primary/principal aim
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The country’s main aim was to slow inflation.
the main/principal objective
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This research project has three main objectives.
the major/main/principal export
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Agricultural products are the country’s principal exports.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
actor
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For others, governments are to provide the main resources for and be the principal actors in public communication.
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Thus the Father had been the principal actor during the period of the Old Testament.
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Reporters try to establish what the unfolding events mean to the principal actors concerned.
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It is a simplification to banish all but the principal actors from the international stage.
aim
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Musical variety seems to have been Campra's principal aim in nearly half of his later cantatas.
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The principal aim of this exploratory research is to gain a better understanding of franchising and the franchising decision.
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A principal aim is, of course, to present the pupils successfully for external exams.
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The principal aim is to raise awareness among workers and employers of hazards in the workplace.
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One of its principal aims is to make sure that those with disabilities can lead lives that are as normal as possible.
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The principal aim of the project is to provide an answer to this question.
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The principal aim seems to be to find out how far it can be extended.
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To render capitalism more humane and efficient was the principal aim of the professional expert.
amount
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Another example is that of index linked loans which may be redeemable at the principal amount multiplied by an index.
author
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Savas was principal author of the early drafts of the National Urban Policy Report.
carer
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We asked principal carers , therefore, which of a list of symptoms the person they cared for suffered from.
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These can be drawn out from within the history of a caring relationship particularly where there is a principal carer taking responsibility.
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We re-interviewed those principal carers whose relatives, etc had moved to permanent institutional care by the end of one year.
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Table 5.2 shows the relationship of the principal carer to the dementia sufferer.
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How, therefore, did principal carers view the dementia sufferer's continued home care?
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The changing patterns of marriage and companionate relationships will also expand the range of principal carers .
cause
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He used Pareto analysis to identify the principal cause as a loose loading arm.
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Deficiencies in the local infrastructure were assumed to be the principal cause of community distress.
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However it is also the principal cause of their weaknesses.
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Equipment problems were considered to be the principal cause of inaccurate measurements. 6.
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Drugs aside, nitrate over 100 mg/litre is the principal cause .
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Nor is it much concerned with exceptions to the rule that, to every effect, there is one principal cause .
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All the measures that I catalogued earlier will help to reduce vehicle emissions - the principal cause of bad air.
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He could not accept that the goal or end of a process, the final cause , was the principal cause.
character
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The principal characters , Larissa Toren and Armel Santores, teach literature and literary theory at two equally radical universities.
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And three of the principal characters are women.
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As well as the two principal characters , there were a warrior, to do the calling away, and two attendants.
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The title is, as the story reveals, the name of the principal character who is a man.
component
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The principal component , as always, is lack of language proficiency.
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The programme plots speakers in terms of their scores on two principal components , represented as axes of the graph.
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The first principal component , carrying 50 percent of the original variance, was dominated by land-cover differences in the rural area.
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A second widely-used transform is that of principal components .
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The final attempt at classification involved a supervised classification of principal components , 2, 3 and 4.
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The decline in information content from principal component 1 to principal component 4 does not need any verbal description.
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The first principal component has most information and hence the greatest contrast and least noise.
concern
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Floirat also owned luxury hotels, the principal concern of the new conglomerate Matra-Hachette.
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One of the principal concerns in La Strada is the loss of potential, the elimination of creative possibility.
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Quality a principal concern Each product manufactured by Janssen Chimica is quality tested at least three times, depending upon the requirements.
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For the moment our principal concern will be to enquire into the forces which produce deviations of p, from,.
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The Army had no capital ships or aircraft to worry about: manpower was its principal concern .
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There seem to have been two principal concerns .
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When looking at reliability one principal concern was the purpose of the writer - whether of a primary or secondary source.
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When considering value the principal concern is the use to which that evidence will be put.
factor
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One of the principal factors is the reliance on coal as the main source of power.
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Three principal factors account for the growing significance of this season.
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A lack of response would suggest that the high concentration of alcohol is the principal factor .
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Failure to define, at any rate in politics, is the principal factor which keeps us in employment.
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Interestingly but not surprisingly, a higher proportion of men than women took occupation to be the principal factor determining class.
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Estimates of the development cost vary greatly, but the high cost is certainly a principal factor in holding back the market.
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In such cases two principal factors are at work.
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The renewed development of the market in the 1980s can be traced to three principal factors .
focus
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Given that macro-decisions inherently and inevitably condition micro-decisions, the principal focus of attention must be on the political decision-maker.
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The principal focus of this research is the major regulatory arena of occupational health and safety.
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Hajdu's principal focus is on Dylan's relationship with Baez.
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But the principal focus for freight traffic was the goods station.
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The principal focus of the Commission's enquiry relates to the provision of financial services.
function
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Since the principal function of grammar is to indicate how units of meaning are to be combined, this is scarcely surprising.
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This has always been considered one of the principal functions of the Court.
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I sometimes think that the principal function of professional training in education is to inoculate teachers against books on education.
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There are three principal functions of tribunals and enquiries: adjudication, regulation and advice.
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Thus, a principal function of top management is to co-ordinate and monitor the efforts of those lower down the hierarchy.
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And in fact public shaming was one of the principal functions of police registration and surveillance.
investigator
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This convention results in the last authors - who usually include the principal investigator - being dropped from the citation.
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William Evans designed pharmacological studies and was a principal investigator on the primary leukaemia protocol.
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Ching-Hon Pui was a principal investigator of the leukaemia treatment protocols and interpreted the data.
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The principal investigators will be responsible for interviewing key informants about the way the system has been modified in recent years.
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We invited the principal investigators from the remaining 7 trials to participate in this analysis and they agreed.
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A mathematical theory of statistical predictors and how to assess their accuracy has been developed by the principal investigator and others.
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The research is being undertaken on an inter-disciplinary basis and the two principal investigators are an economist and a social policy specialist.
means
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The principal means of growth and development including accretion, redefinition and invention.
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The principal means for educating Nonconformist ministers were the various denominational colleges.
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But in Birmingham the railways were never the principal means of transport for the urban commuter.
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For a start, there is the cost of what has traditionally been the principal means of covering risk - insurance.
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During the 1660s and 1670s he was one of the principal means by which the government sought to influence City politics.
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Workers employed in the mills and factories of industrial areas took to the bicycle as a principal means of travel to work.
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One government or form of government competes with another, and the principal means are indicated by their military budgets.
method
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Our Falconet target aircraft uses a centrifugal launcher as its principal method of getting airborne.
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The principal methods of investigation are interviewing and the collation of documentary evidence.
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There are two principal methods of dealing with this.
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The principal method of inquiry is analysis of company records and other contemporary sources.
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The principal method of investigation will be survey by interview and questionnaire.
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The principal method of investigation is in-depth studies with companies in different industries who are using Quality Circles.
objective
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Its principal objectives include the promotion of health and safety, the protection of the environment and the establishment of quality standards.
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The principal objective of the scheme is to provide each of the fourteen candidates with a 12-month commitment to his appropriate squad.
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His principal objective was to clear his name of the suspicion attached to it.
officer
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He served in various parts of the country, reaching the grade of principal officer by 1833.
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The councillor should become acquainted with the principal officers from whom he can gain a considerable amount of information and help.
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Chris Johns, principal officer for social care, said it would direct resources to those with most need.
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There was a table at one end where a principal officer and a couple of others sat overseeing the whole lot.
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The principal officers of the local authority are those which the authority decides to appoint.
place
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Service may be effected at his principal place of business in the jurisdiction, regardless of his current residence.
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That location will normally be the principal place of their business.
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Information booklet on your chosen resort, including a guide to the principal places of interest.
problem
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The principal problem area concerns the additional amount of computation that may be necessary successfully to implement Monte Carlo based techniques.
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On the first approach, the principal problem with the system is, it is agreed, corruption.
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There are two principal problems associated with this.
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The principal problem about them has generally been said to be that of their meaning or semantics.
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What is the nature of media coverage of fraud, and what are the principal problems of communicating frauds to the public?
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The principal problem for both speech and handwriting recognition is the variability of the input.
reason
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One of the principal reasons for this was considered to be the existence of the defence for men under 24.
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Hashimoto is the frontrunner for two principal reasons .
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The principal reason for this is the high degree of reliance a human places on linguistic information.
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This is the principal reason that the great voices of opera seldom sing popular songs.
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I see two principal reasons why this happened.
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What is the principal reason for its existence?
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The other principal reason was the numerous changes in staff caused by transfer, resignation and retirals.
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Priority-gaining in the event of a company's liquidation is one of the principal reasons for taking security.
repayment
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In practice, therefore, these principal repayments took the place of depreciation.
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Thus we can calculate the money value of the final coupon payment and principal repayment on 30 March 1988 as follows.
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This would arise where depreciation charges were less than principal repayments would have been.
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If it was to be provided in addition to principal repayments in the revenue account, then local authorities' capital would increase.
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The asset is capitalized, interest is expensed and principal repayments do not pass through the revenue account.
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Consequently, the argument about depreciation producing more correct costs in the revenue account applies equally to principal repayments in lieu of depreciation.
role
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Will the principal roles be taken by the same group of children who starred in previous years?
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The principal role of these units is to keep tomorrow's graduates in touch with the problems and methods of defence.
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A principal role should be undertaken by staff directly involved with and who are experienced in dealing with, elderly groups.
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A brief discussion pointed out that his principal role was that of liaison between the Commission and the Association of Catholic Headteachers.
source
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The principal source of finance for all of this remained the record company.
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Professional pollsters have displaced precinct party chairmen as the principal source of information about what the public is thinking.
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With coffee prices badly depressed, the tea industry seemed set to become the second principal source of foreign exchange earnings.
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This is one of the two principal sources of new NEOs.
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Anticommunism and the constitutional order provided the principal sources of political cohesion in the new political entity.
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The intended budget of £5 million could reap benefits in a city where tourist revenue is becoming a principal source of wealth.
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Such surveys formed the basis for research for many years and still remain the principal source for some categories of data.
task
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Advice for Quality Assurers Your principal task is to decide whether a package is fit for the purpose intended.
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He discussed each of his principal tasks - there were only four, each clearly delineated.
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As such, his principal task was to secure the concordat, which was signed at the end of August 1953.
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Thus the principal task of theories which specifically address modem football hooliganism is to account for these dominant forms of behaviour.
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The new parliament's principal task would be to draft a constitution for approval by the electorate in a referendum.
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The principal task initially was to create a wider range of accommodation services.
witness
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And he said there was now further evidence to discredit a principal witness in the case as a liar and a cheat.
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The prosecution dropped the charges in 1976, announcing that the principal witness was too ill to ever testify.
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What took place has to be reconstructed with the principal witness for the prosecution being unavailable.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Oil is the country's principal source of income.
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Your taxes depend on where your principal residence is located.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After about two miles, I take the left fork and keep to the principal route.
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And in fact public shaming was one of the principal functions of police registration and surveillance.
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Drafting cables to be dispatched to Washington is one of the principal occupations of the foreign service officer in the field.
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The principal component, as always, is lack of language proficiency.
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The principal method of inquiry is analysis of company records and other contemporary sources.
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The important properties of these three principal volcanic rock groups can be summarized in simple tables.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
assistant
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Some assistant principals hold this position for several years to prepare for advancement to principal; others are career assistant principals.
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Depending on the number of students, the number of assistant principals a school employs may vary.
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He then served on county staff development staffs until becoming assistant principal at Bryant in 1998.
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But more assistant principals and janitors are necessary to make the schools operate effectively, Saylor said.
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Much of that sentiment stems from the transfer in March of Gloria Nogales-Talley, a popular Latina assistant principal .
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Similarly, a New York court ruled that a school district could transfer a teacher who married her assistant principal .
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But he said it looks bad to the public to cut teachers while hiring janitors and assistant principals .
high
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Two days later the former Enniskillen high school principal slipped into a coma from which he never awakened.
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The Tams, who worked then as a high school principal and a kindergarten teacher, lived in a two-story home.
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Major Jack Tilley warmed up the troops much in the fashion of a jovial high school principal preparing students for graduation.
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college
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Two youths in Texas had tried to kill the college principal , failed and poisoned themselves.
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The arrangements for the transition have been announced in a letter from to college principals .
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However, it appears that in Essex at least, individual college principals have agreed to negotiate their introduction and avert strikes.
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I have not met a college principal who intends to change that practice.
school
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Two days later the former Enniskillen high school principal slipped into a coma from which he never awakened.
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The Tams, who worked then as a high school principal and a kindergarten teacher, lived in a two-story home.
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Peter Barkworth's dainty but needling school principal is another candidate for the comic hall of fame.
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The Washington Post reported that some elementary school principals have banned the stuff, just like the nuns used to.
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His partner is an elementary school principal in town.
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Consider the school principal who discovers students wearing beepers to stay in contact with their superiors in the drug trade.
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Major Jack Tilley warmed up the troops much in the fashion of a jovial high school principal preparing students for graduation.
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In my early thirties I applied for a position as a school principal .
■ VERB
pay
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Insured bonds carry a pledge from a private backer to pay interest and principal on the bonds if the issuer defaults.
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Two funds were frozen by the government; others declared bankruptcy or slashed their interest rates and stopped paying back principal .
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Which is, pay the principal , forget the interest.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Another teacher who moved me was an assistant principal named Cho, who doubled as a history teacher.
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Each son has a career in education -- three teachers and one principal .
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His comments on Paul Caton, the deputy principal , were gratuitously offensive.
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In the course of acting for each of their principals, estate agents will acquire information confidential to that principal.
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Insured bonds carry a pledge from a private backer to pay interest and principal on the bonds if the issuer defaults.
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Major Jack Tilley warmed up the troops much in the fashion of a jovial high school principal preparing students for graduation.
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Once, after he had been absent a fortnight, the principal tackled his parents.
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The government will also receive inflation-adjusted 12 percent interest on the unpaid principal .