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