adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
consist mainly/largely/primarily of sb/sth
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The audience consisted mainly of teenagers.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
concerned
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Few of the canvases are primarily concerned with landscape, but it tends to find its way into most of them.
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In contrast, government spending on transfer payments is primarily concerned with equity and income redistribution.
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The author assumes considerable familiarity with the subject and is primarily concerned with the evolution of the sculptor's style.
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Remarkably, the voice of those primarily concerned by the issue, namely Arab women, has been totally missing.
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Distribution is primarily concerned with the task of moving the product to the consumer.
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While written tests are primarily concerned with the content objectives, mathematical investigations submitted as coursework test the process objectives.
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In stratigraphy we are primarily concerned with the starts and the finishes, not with the monotonous middles.
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Children found it easier to communicate than their parents, but were primarily concerned about learning more about the seizures.
interested
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There are also specialist scissors for those who are primarily interested in crafts.
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The Great Powers who wished to intervene were primarily interested in the destruction of Bolshevism rather than in national independence perse.
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If the investigation is undertaken by some one primarily interested in intonation, for example, the data selected has to meet certain requirements.
responsible
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It report points out that, in many developing countries, women are primarily responsible for subsistence farming.
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If environmental factors were primarily responsible for its emergence among other populations, can the same be said for male homosexuals?
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Even more striking was the upsurge in heavy industry, and for this the State itself was primarily responsible .
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Women were also primarily responsible for the household.
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Yet even in these households the woman is primarily responsible for performing such tasks.
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The militia and citizen patrols remained primarily responsible for control of the black population.
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A reduction in the incidence of progressive heart failure was primarily responsible for the reduced mortality.
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Why is a woman and not a man primarily responsible for raising the children?
■ VERB
aim
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This well-meaning law will have little effect on the type of owner at whom it is primarily aimed .
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These circuits are aimed primarily at business planning to make extensive use of the Internet.
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Hence, this was the first of his conference performances which was aimed primarily at the nation.
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It would be aimed primarily at individuals and small businesses that are only interested in using one system.
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His preaching was aimed primarily at the understanding and the conscience of his hearers.
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Adolescents' social interaction... is aimed primarily at discussion.
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This approach would have to be aimed primarily at general practice.
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They are available at three levels and are aimed primarily at those seeking entry to higher education.
based
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They are also primarily based on comparisons between the specialist and generic teams.
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His rise to power in Washington is based primarily on his ability to seek compromise to get things done.
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New staff development activities and provision and revision of activities is based primarily on feedback received.
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But their contributions to corporate goals were based primarily on individual thought and action.
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Shultz argues that our understanding of causality is based primarily on knowledge about the ways in which generative transmission occurs.
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The information in this report is based primarily on testimonial evidence.
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A number of studies based primarily upon private sector organisations have analysed the impact that these variables will have.
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Based primarily on the sometimes fantastic testimony of children involved, he was sentenced to 12 consecutive life terms.
concentrate
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Titles will primarily concentrate on subjects covered in the initial stages of an undergraduate chemistry course.
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This will leave regions too concentrate primarily on short-term trading objectives.
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The other classical joint degrees concentrate primarily on the areas indicated in their titles.
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It is time to recognise the last three phases - currently we have concentrated primarily on the first phase.
concern
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Private law primarily concerns the rights and obligations of citizens against and towards one another.
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The health administrator is primarily concerned with the latter three tasks.
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It is with this second group of writers that we are primarily concerned here.
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This subsection is primarily concerned with the actual procedures for the collection of data.
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If he is concerned primarily with survival value, he will design a culture with an eye to whether it will work.
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We are not concerned primarily to multiply elite livestock, and still less do we want to clone human beings.
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This article is concerned primarily with adoptions by non-relatives.
deal
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In the main, retail banks deal in smaller amounts, other banks deal primarily with wholesale corporate business.
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Since the Volunteer teachers were in such a heavy majority, this chapter will deal primarily with them.
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Yet, as noted earlier, studies of poor families have dealt primarily with white households.
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The PaperPort is a black-and-white scanner, which is fine if you deal primarily with documents instead of images.
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About six of the papers deal primarily with instrumentation and the technology, and the rest are devoted to applications.
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In the first stage, we primarily dealt with homogeneous networks, then moved to inter-networks that are heterogeneous in nature.
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As my hon. Friend said, the Bill deals primarily with the delivery of health care in the community.
depend
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The choice of materials by instrument makers, however, depends primarily on the local ecosystem.
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The speed with which this will occur depends primarily upon the speed at which the prices of conventional fuels rise.
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Similarly, in the rubbery state the shear modulus of all polymers depends primarily upon the density of cross-links.
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The pattern of male involvement, however, has depended primarily on social class with important regional and national variations.
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This depends primarily on the branch of fluid mechanics being studied.
design
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They are designed primarily for practitioners who are either currently working or who have previous work experience in the industry.
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Two specialized weapons, designed primarily for antitank warfare, were quite common, al-though they often stayed in camp.
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Biotechnology is controlled by a handful of seed, agrochemical and pharmaceutical corporations whose proprietary products are designed primarily for Northern markets.
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As a label, Gramola is still revived from time to time for releases that are primarily designed for the local market.
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Those designed primarily to create individual pages, and those designed to create Web sites.
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Justice demands therefore that it be designed primarily for living. not travel.
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Like those cars, it's been designed primarily for the track.
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Many of their positions and campaign strategies seem designed primarily to satisfy this or that focus group.
determine
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Specific changes were determined primarily by the head and senior management team and only latterly by the rest of the staff.
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In both companies the salespeople were commissioned; hence, their financial rewards were determined primarily by companywide compensation policies.
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Flows of materials and energy have been primarily determined by market structures and economics and only secondarily by ecological factors.
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But he has seemed primarily determined to justify his moves.
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The shear properties of polymers, however, are primarily determined by the wriggling, bending and twisting of the chains.
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With workers' real gross incomes determined primarily by accumulation, higher taxes bit into take-home pay.
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Organizational direction is therefore primarily determined by problems and reaction rather than pro-active planning.
direct
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This article was primarily directed at fellow members of the National Front.
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His efforts were directed primarily at how structures evolve in people in general.
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These tend to be directed primarily towards younger workers and the short-term unemployed.
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Recall from Chapter 7 that minimizing is directed primarily at the lingering and unpalatable costs of reactive decisions and policies.
exist
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These centres of production existed primarily to provide jobs, but also offered a social focus.
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By this definition, large, nonprofit firms that exist primarily to accumulate wealth would not qualify.
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Newspapers existed primarily to promote political causes.
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This exists primarily because of the government's desire to finance a substantial part of its expenditure by cheap money rather than by taxation.
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And they don't exist primarily to help consumers.
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It is a truism that schools exist primarily for the personal development of pupils.
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Above all it is clear that the County Championship will exist primarily to serve the interests of the national team.
focused
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But criticism of Mrs Roosevelt focused primarily on her involvement in public issues.
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Up to now, the meetings have focused primarily on black elected officials and appointed officials.
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A final problem with applying traditional measurement techniques to white-collar professional groups was that traditional measurement focused primarily on efficiency.
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Government health experts also focused primarily on partner reduction.
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But Friday, long-term interest rates fell as investors focused primarily on the good inflation news.
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Her thought process was primarily focused on the injustice of being in the hospital and projecting blame on to her parents.
intend
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The rumours must have reached Richard's ears - indeed they may have been primarily intended for him.
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Mines were intended primarily for vehicles, but infantrymen also fell victim to them.
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It is primarily intended for health visitors, plus public health nurses, health promotion workers and other staff.
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This stage was intended primarily to benefit employees and small and medium enterprises.
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Many of these works were intended primarily for other experts in the field and attracted little popular attention.
serve
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The audit is usually performed by a third party, primarily serving the interests of the party who delegated the responsibility.
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It has been argued that the higher professionals primarily serve the interests of the wealthy and powerful.
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Obviously, some megalithic structures did serve primarily for burial.
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Most central city schools serve primarily poor, working class and minority students.
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But such a strategy would serve primarily to relieve some symptoms of poverty rather than its cause.
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For the most part they are unambitious publications, serving primarily the clientele of their own clearinghouses and reporting local activity.
use
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Many of Whessoe's installations from the early years of this century still survive today and are used primarily for storage.
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This season, expect him to be used primarily as the Cardinals' return specialist.
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It is intended that the proceeds of any such issue would be used primarily to refinance existing debt.
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The basement under the main building of the Institution was used primarily to store food.
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The reason is simple, around 80% of all personal computers are used primarily for word processing or related tasks.
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The loans, which are made independently and through credit cards, are primarily used for buying appliances and consolidating debts.
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Minis are used primarily for on-line work, so they have to perform well in this respect.
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Language is used primarily for communication.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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At my last job I worked primarily with immigrants.
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Language is primarily a system of signs.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Diarrhoea was treated symptomatically, usually coincidentally by morphine given primarily for pain.
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Neither did governing bodies regard their role as primarily concerned with monitoring the curriculum.
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One is raised primarily for the purpose of foie gras, the succulent swollen liver of the goose.
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Private law primarily concerns the rights and obligations of citizens against and towards one another.
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The bond and currency markets, trading primarily via phone, operated throughout the day, but sluggishly.
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The company expects the early versions of the chip will go into low-end desktop computers primarily sold outside the United States.
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They told him that their plan, at the time, was to recruit primarily from medical and dental schools.
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This paper is devoted primarily to harmonization of legal rights and duties arising under international transactions.