adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
consist mainly/largely/primarily of sb/sth
▪ The audience consisted mainly of teenagers.
due largely to
▪ The restaurant’s success was due largely to its new manager.
highly/purely/largely speculative
▪ a purely speculative theory about life on other planets
largely symbolic
▪ The vote was largely symbolic.
largely unaware
▪ The public was largely unaware of the security measures.
largely unsuccessful
▪ The advertising campaign has been largely unsuccessful.
largely/totally/completely etc irrelevant
▪ His age is completely irrelevant if he can do the job.
partly/largely/entirely etc to blame
▪ Television is partly to blame.
virtually/fairly/largely meaningless
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
dependent
▪ The force of this affirmation, however, is largely dependent upon the continuous union of man and nature in the Over-Soul.
▪ Maturation studies, based on geochemical analysis, demonstrate that gas-generative maturity is largely dependent on Jurassic burial.
▪ Huge growth in the service sector is largely dependent on people and not machines.
▪ Again the permeability is largely dependent upon sediment sorting and the presence of cements, or authigenic growths in the pore throats.
▪ This, however, is highly speculative and largely dependent on a perpetual bull market.
▪ Selection of patients for treatment is largely dependent upon referral from a district centre.
▪ Even at the best companies, family friendliness is often episodic, largely dependent on relationships with an immediate supervisor.
due
▪ The remainder were largely due to sewage, industrial pollution or oil spillages.
▪ That was largely due to the centralized organization mandated for all Air Force wings-and its damaging results.
▪ Global warming is largely due to the loading of the atmosphere with carbon dioxide.
▪ In my view, this is largely due to the fact that he saw purpose very much in terms of particular design.
▪ Officials said the increase was largely due to extra holidays abroad encouraged by the favourable exchange rate of sterling.
▪ Thus, present-day surface relief is largely due to movements that occurred during and since the Tertiary Period.
▪ The improved forecast is largely due to lower projected costs for Medicare and Medicaid and welfare reform.
irrelevant
▪ The identity of the genitor in such cases is largely irrelevant.
▪ The comfort, or lack of it, at training camp is largely irrelevant.
▪ Where obligation is the key, policy is largely irrelevant.
▪ The precise timing of this process is largely irrelevant.
▪ By the late 1980s, debates surrounding the rate question became largely irrelevant.
▪ If films have little peripheral information in them then it may be that memory for such information is largely irrelevant.
▪ From the child's viewpoint arguments over management are largely irrelevant.
▪ Men are now recruited into a national labour pool and their home base is largely irrelevant to where they take ships.
responsible
▪ The apparent movement of both the lion and the Cupids along an imaginary, oblique line is largely responsible for this effect.
▪ Reagan, with his extraordinary knack for bringing people together, was largely responsible for this.
▪ As this portrait indicates, Margaret Massingberd was largely responsible for creating much of the garden areas as they still exist today.
▪ The government said the change to chain weights was largely responsible for the higher estimate.
▪ A grand little chap called Willie Workman was largely responsible.
▪ By all accounts, technology is largely responsible for fueling the self-employment trend among the disabled.
▪ The canal engineer William Jessop was largely responsible for this pioneering work which had been in prospect ever since the Stuart period.
▪ The logical result of such thinking is that parents feel largely responsible when things go wrong.
symbolic
▪ The government has made minor cuts on welfare and some changes of a largely symbolic nature.
▪ In fact, the measure has so many exceptions that some Republicans said its value is largely symbolic.
▪ But to describe the bill as largely symbolic is not to diminish its importance.
▪ The registry is largely symbolic and confers none of the legal rights and obligations of marriage.
▪ Because Westminster retains responsibility for security, the vote was largely symbolic.
unknown
▪ Although largely unknown in Britain, Lafaille has an impressive rock climbing curriculum vitae.
▪ But on the national level they are novices, limited specialists or largely unknown quantities.
▪ He possesses non-physical properties and energies that are still largely unknown and uncharted by traditional science.
▪ Rick Lazio, 42, a moderate from Long Island who is largely unknown statewide but carries little obvious baggage.
▪ He was largely unknown to football when last June he was introduced to Edwards, the chairman and majority shareholder of United.
▪ Tributes were largely unknown to Ford's injected Cologne V6, but it is a worthy enough trooper.
▪ Derrick Smith, remains largely unknown even on this Marine Corps base where he is stationed.
■ VERB
based
▪ Resistance, ill-organized, ill-informed and largely based on non-quantifiable attachment to place, has little effect.
▪ But he conceded that it was a business based largely on commission.
▪ The Prima Pasta operation is based largely within the radius of the M25.
▪ Louis, Kerry Collins of Carolina is the choice, based largely on what he did against the 49ers last season.
▪ This practice is based largely on the belief that intravenous heparin increases coronary artery patency rates.
▪ Smith ties her transformation to a training program developed by de Bruin and based largely on track-and-field principles.
▪ The theory of housing classes is based largely on subdivisions within these two main groups.
▪ He argued that the international monetary system, based largely on the dollar, contained certain inherent contradictions.
confine
▪ At a local level, Gloucester's changes were largely confined to filling gaps left by the removal of the Woodvilles.
▪ Until now it had been thought that the problem was largely confined to Devon and Cornwall.
▪ Polls suggest that cultural snobbery is largely confined to intellectuals.
▪ The single-subject academic course is largely confined to the universities, reflecting their traditions of specialized scholarship and their stronger research orientation.
▪ These institutions were concerned mainly with gymnastics and confined largely to women until after the Second World War.
▪ Prior to 1914 divorce was largely confined to the middle and upper classes.
▪ Most trade unionists had been indifferent to any political theory beyond an instinctive syndicalism which was itself largely confined to industrial disputes.
▪ A second advantage of the approach is that it is largely confined to observable empirical phenomena.
consist
▪ They are about 8 microns in diameter and probably consist largely of chlorides, that is, of compounds containing chlorine.
▪ Many of the pills and capsules which are sold to slimmers as appetite suppressants consist largely of methyl cellulose.
▪ The diet of the red kite seems to consist largely of carrion and some birds.
▪ A child's education may consist largely of the mastery of traditional skills to be done in a traditional way.
▪ Miscellaneous assets largely consist of payments owed but not yet received from other banks.
▪ For example, a site may consist largely of a number of postholes, all dating to the Neolithic period.
depend
▪ On the degree of evaporation or reduction to which the tomatoes are subjected the flavour of the sauce very largely depends.
▪ This one could depend largely on which Louisville shows up and whether Rutland can show up at all.
▪ This depends largely on the quarantine situation.
▪ The identification of a metamorphic rock depends largely on recognition of foliation and other textures.
▪ Their development as a popular force largely depends on the musical direction they follow.
▪ The differences in opinion depend largely on where economists look for evidence.
▪ The response to this depends largely on your point of view.
▪ The number of education administrators employed depends largely on State and local expenditures for education.
determine
▪ This will be largely determined by whether you are right- or left-handed.
▪ What he makes of this inheritance largely determines his place in history.
▪ The progression is determined largely not by time sequence, but by other connections.
▪ The greatest influence was, of course, the aptitude the student brought to school-something. determined largely by family background.
▪ Choice of an expansion card, with a particular processor, will be determined largely by intended application for the device.
▪ Invasion and metastasis largely determine the clinical course of colorectal carcinomas.
▪ Thus, what was viewed as acceptable was determined largely by the centres' main client group - elderly disabled people.
▪ On the one hand, there are those who have argued that this variation is largely determined by inherited potential.
ignore
▪ She would rage at the boys; they largely ignored her.
▪ Forbes was largely ignored until he rose in the polls.
▪ It seemed that our genuine concerns and grievances were largely ignored and we were dismissed as being out of date and out of touch.
▪ The Dayton agreement already guarantees refugees the right to return home, but the provision has been largely ignored.
▪ The debate on the role of the state has largely ignored the fact that state means more than government.
▪ The great scholars also are largely ignored for their craft skills and precise goals in scholarship.
▪ Most of these effects are simply curiosities for the network engineer and are largely ignored by the majority of designers.
▪ The federal army in the South, in keeping with the 1877 Compromise, largely ignored instances of racial violence.
remain
▪ A modern police force was established in the 1860s, but until 1906 it remained largely confined to urban areas.
▪ But as an institution, Congress remains largely detached from foreign affairs.
▪ And it did so in a way that allowed the traditional culture to remain largely intact.
▪ Significantly, in certain cultural enclaves women remain largely unaffected by the work-family conflict.
▪ The birds are still around, but remain largely aloof in the bushes.
▪ Derrick Smith, remains largely unknown even on this Marine Corps base where he is stationed.
▪ This comparison is possible because the list size remained largely unchanged over the two year study.
▪ A component with a small value for D remains largely adsorbed on the stationary phase.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Most of the cities depend largely on hydroelectric power.
▪ Our church's congregation is largely made up of young families with children.