principal instrument

collocation in English

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principal
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˈprɪn.sə.pəl/us
/ˈprɪn.sə.pəl/
first in order ...
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instrument
noun[C]
uk
/ˈɪn.strə.mənt/us
/ˈɪn.strə.mənt/
an object, such as a piano, guitar, or drum, that is played to produce ...
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Theprincipalinstrumentwas accelerated implementation of concrete structural reforms such as privatisation.
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Applicants are required to undergo an audition which involves performing contrasting pieces on theprincipalinstrumentand undertaking aural and sight-reading tests.
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Theprincipalinstrumentfor implementing this policy was restrictive issuing of sea passes.
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Deep learning was enhanced by the sequencing and integration of musikdidaktik,principalinstrumentand practical teacher training.
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The exchanges are myprincipalinstrumentfor carrying out the measures necessary for obtaining and organising the personnel required by our war effort.
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Theprincipalinstrumentin the control of money is the rate of interest.
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But it is axiomatic that theprincipalinstrumentof production is labour.
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But the other is a representative of an association, which has proclaimed assassination as itsprincipalinstrument.
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Theprincipalinstrumentmust be price policy, but this should be supplemented by other appropriate measures.
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Theprincipalinstrumentof the former is freedom, of the latter servitude.
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While guitar was hisprincipalinstrument, he also played violin (drawing on his classical training), bass guitar, piano and xylophone.
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He commended the film's ambiance of panic, assisted by the relative intimacy of a handheld camcorder as theprincipalinstrumentof filming.
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Dale is an accomplished musician, with the electronic keyboard as hisprincipalinstrument.
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He works primarily in the field of electro-acoustic music, with hisprincipalinstrumentbeing computer software.
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People's war became theprincipalinstrumentof self-determination and social change in the third world from around the 1950s.
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Tunick'sprincipalinstrumentis the clarinet.
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The king's representatives (corregidores), endowed with more administrative powers, were the principal instruments of centralization, although far from the only ones.
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From the late 1980s hisprincipalinstrumenthas been soprano saxophone, though in recent years he has recorded and performed on tenor and alto, as well.
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Theprincipalinstrumentof this education was the classical course of seven years, in which the first three years were devoted to learning languages as necessary tools.
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Today we are discussing the projected demise of one of the principal instruments of that worthy policy.
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