Example sentences of "is primarily [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 This is primarily intended for the recording of fast-moving subjects such as sports action .
2 ( d ) Control is primarily exercised on the budget inputs rather than its outputs .
3 The conference is being organised by the Baptist World Alliance and is primarily geared to the Baptist perspective , though the conference organisers would welcome participants from other denominations attending the meeting .
4 Thus the population of women is primarily selected by the fertility of the partner and not the women and probably is a fair reflection on the normal population of women .
5 This measure may well have to be considered now ( as Washington is hinting ) , as it has become crystal-clear that the Bosnian war is being fomented by Milosevic and the extreme Serb leaders in Bosnia , and is primarily waged by the army .
6 ‘ Bidirectional canopy reflectance is primarily related to the area of leaves within the canopy , recorded by the leaf area index ( LAI , defined earlier ) ( , , , ) rather than the hemispherical reflectance of the component leaves ( Colwell ) .
7 This equation is merely a formal statement of the idea that the quantity of output supplied is primarily determined by the local price relative to suppliers ' expectations of the economy-wide average price of output .
8 Family photography is primarily to do with the reassertion and strengthening of family life .
9 Wulfhere 's reign is primarily distinguished in the surviving record , however , by his re-establishment of the Mercians as a significant political and military force in southern England and it is difficult to envisage Oswiu , king of the northern Angles , maintaining after c .
10 A decision to use search is primarily dictated by the size of the population of candidates in the sector in question , related to the current level of demand .
11 It is primarily linked with the speech or discourse event .
12 Accessibility may improve when the tumour grows towards the oesophageal lumen , but matters become more complicated when growth is primarily directed in the opposite direction , towards the surface .
13 It is relatively easy , for example , to envisage a complementary relationship between a profiling system which is primarily confined to the pastoral work of a school which will then complement the more conventional assessment procedures .
14 It is primarily organised along the lines of the current OPCS scheme , but it would also be possible to use it for coding to KOS or CODOT .
15 The risks are thought to be very small : ( 1 ) because the balance of the natural environment is primarily controlled by the species already present which appear to operate to the detriment of new introductions ; and ( 2 ) because in new releases of microorganisms to date , all very closely monitored , there has been no evidence of any of them getting out of control or adversely affecting the environment .
16 The first to enjoy any degree of commercial success was SideKick which is primarily aimed at the technical user rather than the businessman .
17 Although this disk is primarily aimed at the professional market like advertising agencies , broadcasters and newspapers it could also prove invaluable research material for schools , colleges , and local theatre groups .
18 Mailing DLabel is primarily aimed at the user who wants to print out a run of mailing labels , or serialised labels for whatever purpose , and for those two tasks , it is admirable .
19 The Committee acknowledged that the report is primarily aimed at the government 's policy for shifting the balance between food production and environmental care .
20 In addition , while many , if not all , children are likely to take GCSE examinations in the most popular subjects of Maths and English , the examination is primarily designed for the same population as covered by O-level and CSE , namely the top 60 per cent or so .
21 create the illusion that the ‘ dangerous ’ class is primarily located at the bottom of various hierarchies by which we ‘ measure ’ each other , such as occupational prestige , income level , housing market location , educational achievement , racial attributes — in this illusion it fuses relative poverty and criminal propensities and sees them both as effects of moral inferiority , thus rendering the ‘ dangerous ’ class deserving of both poverty and punishment ;
22 Pigeons can home in familiar areas by remembered cues and a compass sense that is primarily derived from the position of the sun .
23 The increase in gearing from the extremely low level of last year to 38% is primarily occasioned by the acquisition of BMK .
24 The property PAPAL is here associated intensionally with the noun assailant ( or , strictly , with the entity that is primarily identified by the noun assailant ) in order to satisfy the writer 's desire for specificity in putting across to the reader her idea of the person to be mentioned ; yet the property PAPAL was referentially applicable to somebody else , a person otherwise known as Karol Wojtyla .
25 This anxiety is primarily associated with the infant 's ambivalent perception of the breast , which is the major source of satisfaction and of benign feelings , but , because it is not always available when desired , it is also the major source of frustration .
26 The epidemiology is primarily associated with the two main sources of infection , transmammary in suckled pups and percutaneous or oral from the environment .
27 Sometimes referred to as the Cordon de Royat system , this is primarily recommended for the Pinot Noir .
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