principal element

collocation in English

meaningsofprincipalandelement

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principal
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˈprɪn.sə.pəl/us
/ˈprɪn.sə.pəl/
first in order ...
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element
noun
uk
/ˈel.ɪ.mənt/us
/ˈel.ə.mənt/
a part ...
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(Definition ofprincipalandelementfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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That is theprincipalelement.
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Theprincipalelementis housing.
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Theprincipalelementin this scheme is a supplementary levy.
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That is theprincipalelementin making our arrangements work.
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What is theprincipalelementof this scheme?
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That is theprincipalelementof the resolution.
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Theprincipalelementin that scheme is a supplementary levy.
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Theprincipalelementof an economic assessment is the identification of the financial cost of a procedure itself, together with the costs of preparation and follow-up.
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Theprincipalelementin it is an enormous upright, unrelieved slab of windows—hard, dominant, featureless.
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Is he aware that publicity is not theprincipalelementin creating the right climate?
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If that is so, clearly there is excluded from it theprincipalelementin the assessment of common law damages.
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I entirely agree with her that the likelihood of being caught is indeed theprincipalelementin deterring criminal activity.
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Theprincipalelementin the total costing is that which relates to agricultural policy and agricultural financing.
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The plants form theprincipalelementof the composition.
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However, people do not face up to theprincipalelementof the argument, which is that traffic volumes are an indicator of economic prosperity.
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We have made commitments of £650 million for the period 1997–98 to 2000–01 to programmes where governance was aprincipalelement.
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Theprincipalelementof introducing a full democratic vote based on one person, one vote has clearly been rejected at earlier stages.
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For the first time, love became aprincipalelementin the drama.
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In this case "a" is called the "principalelement" of the ultrafilter.
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Theprincipalelementof the project is an embankment 9000ft m long with a maximum height of 465ft m.
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Nonetheless, while she herself has no memories to share, she becomes theprincipalelementin the memory of the protagonist.
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In these fountains, sculpture became theprincipalelement, and the water was used simply to animate and decorate the sculptures.
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The smallest filter that contains a given element "p" is a principal filter and "p" is aprincipalelementin this situation.
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Theprincipalelementthat differentiates the "cha-cha-ch" from the "danzn" is the rhythmic cell that gives its name to the genre.
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The smallest ideal that contains a given element "p" is a principal ideal and "p" is said to be aprincipalelementof the ideal in this situation.
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