adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
consist mainly/largely/primarily of sb/sth
▪ The audience consisted mainly of teenagers.
mainly because
▪ I decided to go with them, mainly because I had nothing better to do.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
concerned
▪ My criticisms are mainly concerned with Blake's handling of some major theoretical issues and with certain parts of the book.
▪ These factories are mainly concerned with manufacturing product for artists signed to the record company.
▪ In Formen Marx is mainly concerned with other contradictory combinations of incompatible social principles.
▪ Our report is mainly concerned with 1984 onwards.
▪ This is mainly concerned with economic restructuring and agricultural development, a considerable part of it linked to the environment.
▪ The museum is mainly concerned with the local textile industry, and is particularly good on the period of the Luddite riots.
▪ The debate amongst the leaders was mainly concerned with that important question.
▪ Although such bodies have the power to recommend criminal prosecution, they are mainly concerned with the inspection and regulation of organisations.
■ VERB
based
▪ Till now criticism of Concorde appears to have been based mainly on environmental grounds.
▪ All soya sauces provide invaluable seasoning to strict vegetarian diets that are based mainly on relatively bland grains.
▪ Primary production is based mainly on diatoms, living in the ice and in open water.
▪ Good discipline is mainly based on mutual love and respect.
▪ The theoretical literature on industrial relations is mainly based on the national developments just outlined.
▪ The work of the first two years is based mainly on prescribed texts, and on literary and stylistic criticism.
▪ This is mainly based on common hear-say as many of these people have read very little of his work.
▪ Previous studies on longterm results of fundoplication were based mainly on questioning patients, with only sporadic endoscopical examination.
come
▪ Customers come mainly from the more socially deprived homes within the area.
▪ The end came mainly through the efforts of Rev.
▪ Repeat news comes mainly from Down Under.
▪ Evidence supporting a genetic component to predisposition comes mainly from a large study of 15924 male twin pairs.
▪ Funding came mainly through the health authority's capital programme.
▪ Propane-rich fuels come mainly from oil extraction and refining, and can be burnt either in spark-ignition motors or dual-fuel units.
▪ All are roost sites except Salthouse, where there was a nest and the pellets collected came mainly from the nestlings.
compose
▪ Kaolinite clays are mainly composed of the clay mineral kaolin.
▪ The money economy shook the foundations of a society composed mainly of lords and peasants.
▪ The Lizard complex is composed mainly of serpentinite with gabbro and metamorphosed basic rocks.
▪ The Stinkdolomit is composed mainly of dark, thinly bedded and dolomitised carbonate mudstones.
▪ All three are mainly composed of silica, but analysis reveals significant differences in other components.
▪ On March 6 Anand appointed an interim Cabinet composed mainly of businessmen and technocrats.
▪ The Island is composed mainly of red sandstone.
concentrate
▪ The Leggatt catalogues date from 1836 to 1992 and concentrate mainly on paintings, drawings and prints.
▪ We have seen that the new managers concentrated mainly on their new rights and privileges.
▪ The remaining chapters in this Section concentrate mainly on the activities of these Marketing specialists.
▪ These losses are concentrated mainly in the transport industries, aIthough the numbers employed in personal services have also declined.
▪ Technical Bulletin covers a wide variety of subjects, concentrating mainly on audit, accounting and tax.
▪ The analysis carried out concentrated mainly on the relationships between undergraduates' academic performance and their entry qualifications.
consist
▪ The performance indicators which are produced consist mainly of data on payment, which makes useful analysis difficult.
▪ Much of the remaining 25 percent, consisting mainly of glass, metals, and ceramics, can be recovered and recycled.
▪ A board of directors of Salomon Brothers was born, consisting mainly of former traders.
▪ These consist mainly of extensions, alterations and garages.
▪ Currently both bodies consist mainly of educators.
▪ The external changes during growth are comparatively slight and consist mainly of an increase in size at each moult.
▪ The presidents' men have organised counter-demonstrations, mainly consisting of unenthusiastic state employees.
consisted
▪ Packaging materials consisted mainly of greaseproof paper and brown paper bags.
▪ In the early l960s Bengali agriculture consisted mainly of subsistence farming.
▪ The woods beyond the rectory garden consisted mainly of beech trees, very tall, as though sending their branches up to the light.
▪ Despite the presence of elephants in the East and of horses and donkeys everywhere, these caravans consisted mainly of camels.
▪ The launch programme in March 1995 mainly consisted of music videos.
▪ There was no narrative or overt expressiveness in the movement, which consisted mainly of high-energy skips and swoops.
▪ Cambridge, like all University towns, consisted mainly of colleges and bookshops - and also bicycles.
▪ At this time fortifications consisted mainly of earth banks and wooden palisades.
consists
▪ Though a number of the old houses remain, the street now consists mainly of shops and offices.
▪ My job mainly consists of writing down the information necessary to have somebody billed.
▪ It consists mainly of a diagram of the shape, plus figures that tell you about the sizes, stitches and rows.
▪ So even this type of pattern consists mainly of figures.
▪ The rest of Leo consists mainly of the triangle formed by Beta, Delta and Theta.
▪ Practice is interpreted as repetition, and feedback consists mainly of approving reactions from the teacher.
▪ That consists mainly of recession-resistant retail properties, whose values fell only 5 percent last year.
▪ My Saturday morning show consists mainly of music that I have selected, and occasionally the odd request as well.
deal
▪ Therefore, I want to deal mainly with some other aspects of foreign policy.
▪ While it deals mainly with the Arizona border area, much is obviously applicable elsewhere.
▪ They deal mainly with the analysis of secondary data, rather than multi-country analysis of survey data.
▪ Four out of the five Railfreight sub-sectors deal mainly with bulk traffic which travels by the trainload rather than by the individual wagonload.
▪ It is the Cinderella service because it mainly deals with powerless people.
▪ Lawyers mainly deal with the theory of things whereas an experienced manager is concerned with practicalities.
▪ I shall deal mainly with the latter subject, but I intend to spend just a few minutes on education.
▪ Several desk studies were carried out for customers, mainly dealing with the market economics of mineral commodities.
depend
▪ The peaceful transition to democracy depends mainly on the military regime.
▪ The amount loaned depends mainly on the credit reputation of the borrower and the quality of the receivables pledged.
▪ The amount of the annuity that will be taxable will depend mainly on her age when she buys the annuity.
▪ The quality of butter depends mainly on the quality of the cream churned.
▪ Two thirds of lone parent families depend mainly on social security benefits, compared with one in eight two parent families.
▪ Educational opportunity varies, depending mainly on family attitudes.
▪ Just how good it is depends mainly upon how much care one takes over the cream sauce.
▪ This depends mainly on the size of the record and the operating speeds of the direct access device in question.
involve
▪ He goes on to relate many other such stories, mainly involving apparitions on the mission field.
▪ The differences among these dialects, which mainly involved pronunciation, were similar to differences among dialects in the present-day United States.
▪ Telepathy Similar in some ways to clairvoyance, but it mainly involves communicating with somebody else without using normal senses.
▪ Other resources used mainly involve photocopying, typing, stationery, postage and telephone costs.
▪ Sources of errors in searching mainly involve failure to find related papers due to inconsistencies in the use of personal names.
▪ This mainly involves monitoring speed limits and ensuring that all craft are licensed to use the waterway.
use
▪ The Mazda 323 1.6i fastback is to be used mainly by crime prevention officers for visiting schools and exhibitions.
▪ Nowadays, the tree is used mainly to provide a quick vegetative cover on the scarred landscapes left after strip mining.
▪ The drop-in system of battery connection is mainly used by Fisher and Compass.
▪ The flight was operated under military cover and used mainly by Agency people with short-term business at the base.
▪ Video can now be used mainly as a source of information and as a stimulus to classroom activity such as debate and discussion.
▪ Durum wheat is used mainly in pasta.
▪ However, I was not entirely happy with the situation because aromatherapy was being used mainly as a palliative.
▪ Dried whole milk is used mainly in infant feeding, but it can be reconstituted and used as fresh fluid milk.
work
▪ Does not have overseas based staff but works mainly through partner Churches and Councils of Churches. 4.
▪ Y., which works mainly for ad agencies and is following a Nielsen-like model of audience measurement through random sampling.
▪ They were mainly worked for lead and the Pennine orefields were later worked for baryte and fluorite.
▪ So, since they could not gain access to the public arena, they worked mainly through family networks.
▪ General practitioners work mainly as individuals supported by primary care teams.
▪ Girls seem to have worked mainly at the surface picking out stones from the coal.
▪ By 1988 al Mujama'a had an active following of about 2,000 working mainly in the refugee camps.
▪ Wilson has worked mainly on Carboniferous faunas collected from surface exposures and boreholes.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ AIDS is transmitted mainly through sexual contact.
▪ I was asked to lead the meeting mainly because Kristin is out of town.
▪ Is Idaho where you grew up, mainly?
▪ My new job's fairly boring - it's mainly typing.
▪ The company sells its batteries mainly through electronics stores.
▪ We cater mainly to small businesses.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At $ 2 billion each, the B-2 is mainly built in California and Washington state.
▪ Farms were mainly in the 10-40 hectare range although there were some larger units.
▪ Medical involvement was mainly in the background, but it included expert knowledge of abnormal neuromuscular function and its alleviation.
▪ Now I think we're mainly suffering from shock.
▪ The others are mainly rectangular with cream surrounds and gold material backings.
▪ This impetus originated mainly from two previously noted sources: the user's immediate family and the police.