I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a primary colour (= red, yellow, or blue )
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Why are children’s toys always in primary colours?
a primary school British English , an elementary school American English (= for children up to 11 )
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Their children are still at primary school.
be of primary importance formal (= be the most important thing )
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Finishing the project on time is of primary importance.
open primary
primary care
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a primary care physician a doctor who provides primary care
primary colour
primary election
primary health care
primary responsibility (= most important responsibility )
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I have primary responsibility for the children.
primary (school) education British English , elementary education American English (= for children aged between 5 and 11 )
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The government has announced plans to improve the quality of primary school education.
primary school
primary source
primary stress
sb's primary/chief/principal concern
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The president said his primary concern was the welfare of the American people.
sb’s main/primary goal
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My main goal was to get the team to the finals.
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The primary goal of the 1917 Revolution was to seize and redistribute the wealth of the Russian empire.
the main/primary cause of sth
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Smoking is the main cause of lung disease.
the main/primary purpose
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The main purpose of our trip to Arran was to see golden eagles.
the main/primary source
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It started as a hobby, but now it is his main source of income.
the main/primary/principal aim
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The country’s main aim was to slow inflation.
the primary focus (= main or most important )
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The economic situation is likely to be the primary focus of the discussion.
the primary/prime objective (= the main one )
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The primary objective of training is to improve performance.
the primary/secondary/high school etc curriculum (= for particular ages at school )
the prime/primary motive (= the main motive )
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Concern was her prime motive in visiting Mrs Green.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
aim
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More meat or eggs for less feed was the other primary aim .
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The Governments' primary aim is to see significant reductions in the amounts of waste requiring disposal.
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In his inauguration speech Brazauskas declared that upholding the independence of the state was his primary aim .
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The primary aim of the awards is to recognise outstanding bravery in the race of danger by exceptional seniors.
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The primary aim of the central bank is to work closely with the government and so to operate in the public interest.
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The primary aim of the second trial was to see if eradication of H pylori led to resolution of intestinal metaplasia.
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Its primary aims are comradeship and welfare.
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Value for money is a primary aim .
care
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Their delivery of services has also been handicapped by inadequate investment in both community and primary care services and practice resources.
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Usually the baby has one nurse with overall responsibility for primary care and then a designated primary nurse for each shift.
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We will increase resources for primary care .
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But the Hopkins surveys were done in large community-based primary care practices that represented a cross-section of the population.
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Social workers and other primary care workers are well placed to identify people who have long-term social difficulties and poor coping resources.
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Medical groups often woo primary care doctors while sharply limiting the number o f specialists allowed on their referral lists.
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Undergraduate students have begun to recognise the importance of primary care .
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In considering the health care provision agencies we may usefully divide them into two main types: primary care and secondary care.
cause
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But no one doubts that overfishing is the primary cause of the fish's decline.
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After ample reflection, I concluded that the primary cause of my troubles was the farm itself.
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Before you do anything else, the primary cause of the ill-health must be determined.
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The child sees himself or herself as the primary cause of all activity.
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Demonstrating climate to be the primary cause clears up many such problems.
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He notes that employers identify problems stemming from inappropriate work attitudes or behaviors as the primary cause of poor job performance.
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Wilfulness Wilfully disregarding safety rules is rarely a primary cause of incidents.
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The primary cause of the dreadful smell was the disposal of human waste.
colours
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Both involve the concept of primary colours .
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Great big colourful things; jubilant with primary colours .
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The sitting-room was long, and looked as if a child had been let loose with buckets of primary colours .
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Question How can graininess on plain surfaces with bright primary colours be avoided?
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At a Royal Institution lecture, he demonstrated that colour images could be formed from just three primary colours .
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Colours other than pure red, green and blue are formed by the combination of the three primary colours.
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Another video weakness to guard against is the coarse and grainy look of plain surfaces in bright primary colours , especially reds.
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The touches or larger areas of primary colours that throw the figures into relief are now less strident, more resonant.
concern
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Councils that conduct local polls say that that is the primary concern .
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The primary concern is cost: Who will pay for constructing the Iway?
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Their wishes and feelings are, or should be, of primary concern .
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The primary concern was with delinquency, the focus on moral character.
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Where money rather than people is the primary concern , financial modelling techniques can be used.
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A primary concern of building inspectors is fire safety.
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Their primary concern is with Washington, where the promotion board and higher officials are.
education
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A few heads with whom we came into contact seemed alarmingly out of touch with recent developments in primary education .
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During primary education , the child learns by two methods: 1.
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Women are at a particular disadvantage: only 16 % of women in the workforce have had more than primary education .
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Ten years ago the world community promised primary education for all, and to halve adult illiteracy by 2000.
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It is recognised that some courses, particularly those in primary education , aim to permeate the whole course with language understanding.
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Drop-outs in the first years of primary education remain very high.
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Unesco is unable to show the leadership necessary to deliver global targets for primary education ?
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The political clout of the primary education sector in the struggle for resources is clearly limited.
election
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This was odd, given that they had already been cleared before the presidential primary elections held last March.
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The financial strain of the earlier primary elections means there will not be a television-advertising blitz in California.
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We are proud to present the first quadrennial awards, to be known as Lexingtons, for outstanding contributions to primary elections .
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That means, as usual, the key decisions will be made in the September primary election .
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Success in primary elections , it would seem, can not simply be bought by political commercials however cunningly they are crafted.
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By comparison, the turnout for the 1992 primary election was 29 percent.
focus
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But it is personal relationships that emerge as the primary focus of this biography.
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The play made David and his anguish the primary focus .
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The primary focus is on the social, as opposed to the economic and technological features of competition.
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And their primary focus for control is always individual performance and accountability.
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Laski's study of judicial review is particularly interesting since its primary focus is a study of Roberts v. Hopwood.
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A spine-tingling vocal concoction that gives Trick Baby its primary focus .
function
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When the mouse cursor enters this menu bar the main menu is displayed which controls the 19 primary functions of MegaCAD.
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The specialization of functions has a dispersive effect and a primary function of government becomes that of securing co-ordination amongst the parts.
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Damage in this case does not compromise the primary function , that of producing traction.
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This space was purpose-built for exhibitions, and this should remain its primary function .
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The primary function of snake venom is, of course, to quieten prey before swallowing them.
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When economic growth depends upon spending before saving, shopping must be the primary function of the female in the consumer economy.
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The primary function of the Magistrates' Court is to try criminal cases.
goal
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Achieving the social, then, is the primary goal of the Piaroa community.
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They reasoned that as salespeople their primary goal was making the numbers, a short-term objective.
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The primary goal was clear and unequivocal - teach literacy.
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The primary goal of the treatment was abstinence.
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Energy is released when the nuclei of the light atomic elements join, so bringing them together is the primary goal .
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Mixers can accomplish the primary goal as efficiently as we can by hand.
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The primary goal of audiovisual instruction is learning, and, through research, techniques have been developed to enrich learning.
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Anything that diverted him from his primary goals was by definition bad.
health
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The front-line members of these teams are local women recruited and trained to provide primary health care to their villages.
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My family health services authority is making plans to establish its own primary health care research ethics committee.
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Professional development and postgraduate training in primary health care could be a useful adjunct in improving quality.
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Village schooling and primary health care will be available locally, with more advanced education and medical services in the main centres.
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It could lead to the dilution and fragmentation of the strengths and skills of the primary health care team.
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Governments all over the world have advocated primary health care without taking it seriously.
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They are mostly women with little formal education who render basic primary health care to people in their villages.
importance
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However, of primary importance is the portfolio presented at interview.
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In the case of lube oil production, an aspect of primary importance is catalyst selection.
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These personal considerations are of primary importance to the social worker and the manner of his work.
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Because prevention is of primary importance , early diagnosis is the goal.
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Correct proportion is of primary importance , as long as size is within the Standard s range.
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Of primary importance were the clay pots, so much better suited as containers than the skins and baskets employed by hunters.
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Poor delivery dates and servicing facilities are further factors to which empirical studies have attached major, even primary importance .
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Within the family it is usually the words and their literal meaning which take primary importance .
level
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Using the local area is particularly important at primary level , for instance.
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However, especially at primary level , salaries remain low, and pay rises have not kept up with inflation.
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The stories can be used in conjunction with any course at primary level .
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In the townships within white-designated urban areas, opportunities to go to school are greater, at least at primary level .
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In 1987, the coverage at primary level was 62.02 percent.
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I have two children currently passing through the education system at secondary and primary levels .
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It is a valuable means of conveying the pleasure of reading, and as valid at secondary as at primary level .
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Only a small percentage of black children were able to remain at school beyond primary level .
objective
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Our primary objective is to collect, organize and disseminate information and materials relating to academic library orientation and instruction.
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Take, for example, the principle of keeping performance results as the primary objective of behavior and skill change.
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The seizure of power in the capital had been the rebels' primary objective since 18 July.
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Performance is the primary objective of design changes.
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In each case the primary objective has been to increase both earnings and productivity.
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Making all-city in track is one of the primary objectives .
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Keep performance results the primary objective of behavior and skill change.
purpose
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The primary purpose must, always, be to sell the product.
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Laboratory tests have two primary purposes , one of which is to detect marginal nutritional deficiencies.
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The primary purpose of the proposed research will be to acquire detailed knowledge about how the new Act will operate.
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The lawyer is dishonest-he claims that justice, service to mankind is his primary purpose .
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Their primary purpose is to speed up browsing.
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The primary purpose of the SARs is to restrict the swift build-up of substantial stakes in a target company by dawn raids.
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It was the primary purpose of reorganisation to recast local government in a way which would make such palliatives unnecessary.
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A primary purpose of the nine-day flight was to have been gathering evidence on how the human body adapted to weightlessness.
reason
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The primary reason for the adoption of this life-style is the attitude to the economic rewards of work.
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This is the primary reason for the incorrect determinations and incorrect nomenclature of many cryptocorynes in the existing literature.
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One of the primary reasons for the Bill is to clarify the law.
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That need for extra money is still the primary reason most people get into our business today.
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The primary reason for introducing new technology such as robots is to reduce costs and improve product quality.
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It seemed to indicate that the primary reason for the defection was homosexuality.
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There would seem in retrospect to have been two primary reasons .
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In fact it is surely one of the primary reasons for its spread.
responsibility
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They also take the primary responsibility for the care of children.
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Otherwise, recognize that some one has to take primary responsibility for this issue, and proceed accordingly.
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We would thus have primary responsibility to ensure that the advertisement is factually accurate.
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As many demands as the manager has on his time, I think his primary responsibility is people development.
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The Commission has the primary responsibility for enforcement of Articles 85 and 86.
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They should speak to as many managers as they can about what the managerial role entails: What are your primary responsibilities ?
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But he bears primary responsibility for tax and economic policies that lost Labour the election.
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He must bear primary responsibility for the chaos that descended upon the White House when such disclosure did occur.
role
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None the less, Easton's section police believe that crime detection is their primary role , their work place thus being the streets.
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Gun control activists say the afternoon of terror unleashed by Gian Luigi Ferri plays a primary role in their campaign.
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One is that Credit Management functions to some extent as a trade paper as well as in its primary role as an Institute Journal.
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We may notice, in the first place, the primary role ascribed to Zeus.
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Gender ideologies also assign to women a primary role as carers of the sick, disabled and elderly.
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They said Jones's primary role was to coordinate a charity founded by the speaker that pays children to read books.
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Mr. Win Griffiths Does the Minister intend to bring the concept of sustainable development right into planning guidance as a primary role ?
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First, there is space-time, playing a primary role as the arena for all the varied activity of physics.
school
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Will the Government stop pressurising authorities to cease supporting small primary schools through additional support across the county?
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The differences were also evident in the age range of primary school pupils.
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Frelimo's Central Committee reported that by 1989, 45 percent of all primary schools had either been closed or wrecked.
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One primary schools only has one inside toilet for 60 pupils in one of its buildings.
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It was like being at primary school again.
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Constable McLennan stated that children of primary school age were allowed to cycle on the pavement.
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The fact that primary schools now teach technology and science is an added bonus.
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Whatever national curriculum we have at secondary school , this curriculum will have consequences for primary school.
season
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This was the situation for more than half of the official primary season !
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However, during the primary season , Elizabeth Dole was often the only woman who shared the stage with her husband.
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On top of this comes the extra uncertainty from the new compression of the primary season .
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The agendas of the press and the Republican electorate diverge dramatically during primary season , but not because of ideology.
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And Buchanan lacks cash, which becomes vital as the primary season rolls on.
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If Clinton finds that bipartisanship sells throughout the primary season , maybe thinking along new lines will become possible.
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Federal law limits presidential candidates who accept matching contributions to spending $ 37 million in the primary season .
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For the Republicans the primary season leaves many more unanswered questions.
source
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For these reasons it is often difficult in many cases to trace a single primary source .
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The radio is the primary source of information and link to the outside world.
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If we define them simply, primary sources are those written at the time by some one usually connected with the event.
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Moreover, they saw their primary source of leverage-financial rewards-as less effective with the big producer.
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The two primary sources of data on smoking habits are the General Household Survey and surveys conducted by the tobacco industry.
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For most people, in short, a job is a primary source of meaning and order in their lives.
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Once the line between the conventional primary source and the secondary study is crossed, the flood is even worse.
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Rhodes is no doubt distressed, as Gajdusek was his primary source .
task
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His primary task in the short term would be to mobilize it for the regional elections in March.
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The availability of trained grief counselors, whose primary task is simply to listen, is also important.
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This is the primary task for which it was originally designed.
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Maintaining that vital balance between faith and doubt, preserving that mutual trust, is a primary task for any leader.
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The primary task of monetary policy is to fight inflation, keeping it to an acceptable level.
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Threatened people do not perform well - their energies tend to be diverted from the primary task .
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Trist also believed that the primary task of management was to relate the organisation to its environment.
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The Commission's primary task would be to recommend policies and to administer the Treaty of Rome.
teacher
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Many primary teachers start investigations of the past by working out from the history of the school, village or local area.
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One is a primary teacher who was interested in the mental processes of children tackling simple addition.
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In this way, students can develop a semi-specialism, as well as the more general skills of the primary teacher .
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One day, the primary teacher guiding children through their instructional computer program may be able to prevent reading failure altogether.
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Inner London as a whole has 653 primary teacher vacancies.
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Six-subject BEds to prepare primary teachers across a wide curriculum range.
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Whether these differences would remain if primary teachers emphasised different aspects of mathematics and different ways of approaching mathematics is unknown.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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primary grades
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primary students
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a primary infection
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As always, security is our primary concern.
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Financial reward is the primary reason most people work.
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Low attendance was the primary reason for canceling the shows.
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What is the primary role of parents in bringing up children?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Another authority may publish total amounts for primary schools, secondary schools, continuing education.
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Bibby could name one or maybe two assistants to his staff, including a primary recruiter.
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But the compressed primary schedule for the 1996 nomination has a built-in bias for front-runners and candidates with money.
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He considered that it was his primary duty to be a divine and theologian rather than a political bishop.
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It singled out the upper reaches of primary schools for particular criticism.
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The primary exhibit area will focus on the Turnbull Colony.
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The future of our primary schools is rooted in the institutions which train our teachers.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
democratic
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Jim Chapman, D-Sulphur Springs, who is running in the Democratic senatorial primary .
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The Democratic primary was scheduled for September 12.
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Clinton has nominal opposition in the Democratic primary .
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Independents tend to favor Forbes over Dole and could vote in either the Republican or Democratic primaries .
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Republican Dan Copeland is planning to face the winner of the Democratic primary in the general election.
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Lloyd Bentsen in a Democratic primary in 1976.
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Earle has drawn three opponents this year, two in his own Democratic primary and a Republican former prosecutor.
presidential
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He said he wanted a presidential primary only in March and legislative and other races decided in September.
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In 1992, when Democrats had a contested presidential primary , the turnout was 5 percent.
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He had traveled with them during their arduous political journeys through the presidential primaries the previous wInter.
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Every New Hampshire presidential primary is one for the history books.
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In this election year, books about politics are as plentiful as presidential primaries .
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Bob Dole responsible in the New Hampshire presidential primary .
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By contrast, 11, 000 voters cast early ballots in the recent Super Tuesday presidential primaries .
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And this presidential primary will be anything but standard.
republican
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Greg Laughlin of Texas discovered last year when he failed to survive the Republican primary despite strong party backing.
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In the Republican primaries , Dole was chosen by about 60 percent of the voters over the age of 60.
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Independents tend to favor Forbes over Dole and could vote in either the Republican or Democratic primaries .
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All four states hold Republican presidential primaries on Tuesday.
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The threat was made after Bailey helped lead a demonstration last month at Gammage Auditorium before the Republican presidential primary debate.
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In New Hampshire, Democrats are precluded by law from voting in the Republican primary .
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state
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Instead, they are elected by rank-and-file voters in direct state primaries and caucuses.
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Bloodied but unwilling to give up, he has little hope of winning Florida or any of the Southern state primaries Tuesday.
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Now candidates are chosen by the people in state primaries or caucuses, not by the delegates in convention.
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Instead, the voters do the nominating themselves at the increasingly important state primaries and caucuses.
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Past state primaries , however, have turned out an average of about 30 percent of registered Republicans.
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In 1960, sixteen state primaries chose just 27 percent of the Democratic delegates to the national convention.
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hold
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Six other states also will hold primaries Tuesday: Texas will choose 123 delegates.
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On March 5, eight states hold primaries .
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A week after that, three big Midwestern states hold primaries , and on March 26, Californians go to the polls.
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South Carolina holds the first primary in the South, with Super Tuesday following 10 days later.
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No state yet to hold a primary has as many major media markets as Ohio.
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Under the plan, states that hold primaries or caucuses before March 15 would receive no bonus delegates.
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Martin said the campaign is closing offices and reducing staff in states that have held primaries .
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South Dakota and North Dakota hold primaries the same day, with a combined total of 36 delegates at stake.
vote
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Bennett said he used more stringent criteria to determine whether independents would actually vote in the primary .
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The deadline to register to vote in the primary is August 18.
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I voted in the primary , and I want to know the results!
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The proposal so spooked lawmakers that they offered an alternative referendum that allowed independent voters to vote in primaries .
win
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But winning primaries is one thing.
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They know that in the last 44 years no Republican has gained the presidency without first winning the New Hampshire primary .
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Mr Clinton was also winning in two other primaries in Wisconsin and Kansas.
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But the flat tax re-emerged overnight after Forbes won the Arizona primary .
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Mr Tsongas is a pro-business liberal who won primaries and caucuses in seven states before lack of funds forced him out.
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Forbes won primaries in Delaware and Arizona.
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Bush won the Republican primary in South Carolina with 67 percent of the vote.
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Gramm must win the South Carolina primary on March 2 to prove the validity of this South-West strategy.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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If it is later decided to compare primaries, then equal-sized samples from each are likely to give greatest precision.
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In the Republican primaries, Dole has received substantial support from senior citizens, who trust one of their own vintage.
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No state yet to hold a primary has as many major media markets as Ohio.
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South Carolina holds the first primary in the South, with Super Tuesday following 10 days later.
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The Arizona primary originally was expected to be a fight between Sen.