noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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central
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The national question as such still remains a central preoccupation for catholic nationalists.
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A sleepless alien might legitimately conclude that Earthlings' central preoccupation was this peculiar sort of inactivity.
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Paracelsus made intractable problems such as plague, syphilis, epilepsy, mental disorder, and learning disabilities central to his preoccupations .
chief
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He remained with Champneys until 1880, but it soon became clear that architecture would never be his chief preoccupation .
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Power was the chief preoccupation of Lenin and Stalin.
current
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Rather, they use patients' dreams to explore their current preoccupations .
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Schools and LEAs can be invited to tender projects and schemes which reflect their current preoccupations .
great
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Foreign affairs and nuclear policy were among his greatest preoccupations .
main
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That was even true of de Gaulle's other main preoccupation in these years - his ambitious and contentious foreign policy.
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When at home, Mr Berisha's main preoccupation is keeping his unruly party under control.
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Mr Reynolds' main preoccupation before his operation is with the stoma which will be formed during the procedure.
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Pay flexibility is a main preoccupation of Mr Montagu and Mr Brown in the planning stage.
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His main preoccupation becomes the demonstration of prowess through chasing off other males that attempt to gain access to his females.
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But his main preoccupation was with the unfinished Requiem, which had begun to prey on his mind.
major
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A major preoccupation of writers on organization has been the design of structures that will maximize efficiency.
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Since most of the male students were in their mid to late twenties, spouse hunting for them was a major preoccupation .
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Experimentation with colour and support has become a major preoccupation for him.
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Politics became the major preoccupation shared by all, rather than the concern of the ruling few.
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From chapter 8 onwards the theme of suffering is the major preoccupation of the book.
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Music has been his major preoccupation since childhood.
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In particular, aerodynamics are a major preoccupation .
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Throughout history the voluntary control of sexuality has been a major preoccupation of all religions, all cultures, all peoples.
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become
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Consumer protection has, in recent years, become more of a preoccupation for governments and pressure groups.
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Politics became the major preoccupation shared by all, rather than the concern of the ruling few.
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Experimentation with colour and support has become a major preoccupation for him.
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Regular entertaining of company personnel, as well as occasional friends at weekends, threatened to become a major preoccupation for Laura.
reflect
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My only reservation with his classification of roles is that it reflects a Western preoccupation with task behaviours.
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The structure reflects traditional curricular preoccupations in special education.
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Schools and LEAs can be invited to tender projects and schemes which reflect their current preoccupations .
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The way in which we use language reflects the preoccupations of society and of individuals.
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Alberti's remarks on the harmonious assortment of colours in painting also reflect a preoccupation in Florence in the early fifteenth century.
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The intensity and bleakness of feeling conveyed in his work reflects a growing preoccupation with death.
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Moreover, it must be stressed, they reflected deep and genuine preoccupations of the age.
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This perhaps reflects the painter's preoccupation with nature seen through the eyes of a romantic.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Brad's main preoccupations were eating and sleeping.
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Georgina's preoccupation with her appearance takes up most of her time.
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Writing a will is not evidence of a morbid preoccupation with death.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A major preoccupation of writers on organization has been the design of structures that will maximize efficiency.
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And increasingly, the relatively brief preoccupation with methodology was seen to have run its course in economics.
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In any case, the argument was quite remote from Lenin's preoccupation with binding up the wounds of national estrangement.
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In her hands she carried two things that made Creusa, in all her preoccupation , start and look sharply at them.
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Linear preoccupation in the past remains a closed book to modern understanding.
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Music has been his major preoccupation since childhood.
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Politics became the major preoccupation shared by all, rather than the concern of the ruling few.
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Richards found a preoccupation amongst employers with the image of engineering.