predominant form

collocation in English

meaningsofpredominantandform

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predominant
adjective
uk
/prɪˈdɒm.ɪ.nənt/us
/prɪˈdɑː.mə.nənt/
more noticeable or important, or larger in number, ...
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form
noun
uk
/fɔːm/us
/fɔːrm/
a paper or set of papers printed with spaces in which answers to questions can be written or information can be recorded in an ...
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(Definition ofpredominantandformfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofpredominant form

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Thepredominantformof land use, livestock raising, is compatible with wildlife conservation.
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It can account for the less common nominative overextension, as well as thepredominantformof overextension, objective for nominative.
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Although grassland has been apredominantformof land use throughout this period, the intensity with which the grassland has been used has often been low.
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While colitis is certainly the mostpredominantformof symptomatic amoebiasis, physicians should be mindful that as many as 17 % of patients with the disease manifest liver abscess without colitis.
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However, even though it has weathered the recent changes better than the sheep rearing sector, cattle have still not replaced sheep as thepredominantformof livestock.
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If that is going to be thepredominantformof tenancy then that is the reality for people living in that kind of accommodation.
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I have talked about livestock because such production is thepredominantformin my constituency.
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Whatever we do, road transport is likely to remain thepredominantformof transport for domestic journeys.
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In the stern of the caque thepredominantformis the tiller.
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This variant of the mouse resembled an inverted trackball and became thepredominantformused with personal computers throughout the 1980s and 1990s.
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They are thepredominantformof inorganic arsenic in aqueous aerobic environments.
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This is thepredominantformfound in flowers of sulfur, roll sulfur and milk of sulfur.
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The cross-wing plan was apredominantformof late nineteenth-century construction.
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Thepredominantformof this carbohydrate is starch.
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In socialist economies, state property is often thepredominantformof ownership of industries and holds a monopoly on land and natural resources.
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This kind of voseo is thepredominantformused in the spoken language.
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However, the positive definition of hacker was widely used as thepredominantformfor many years before the negative definition was popularized.
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Some formal aspects of the tradition, such as the mummers play have largely died out, with the informal house-visiting remaining thepredominantform.
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In customary law jurisdictions, customary land is thepredominantformof land ownership.
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