"principal" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

principal adjetivo

principal + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 422
principal conductor • principal character • principal dancer • principal source • principal investigator • principal role • principal reason • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 77
(26) theme, motive, idea, motif
Kolokacji: 4
(32) works, axis, mechanism
Kolokacji: 3
(34) focus, stress
Kolokacji: 2
(41) room, bedroom, gallery
Kolokacji: 3
(43) beneficiary, heir
Kolokacji: 2
(48) deity, God
Kolokacji: 2
(49) type, symbol, space
Kolokacji: 3
(50) export, commodity
Kolokacji: 2
(51) entrance, gateway
Kolokacji: 2
(54) obstacle, stronghold, barrier
Kolokacji: 3
(57) planner, strategist, strategy
Kolokacji: 3
(60) editor, application
Kolokacji: 2
(61) island, inhabitant
Kolokacji: 2
(62) vehicle, medium, food
Kolokacji: 3
(64) charge, complaint, accuser
Kolokacji: 3
(65) criteria
Kolokacji: 1
1. principal culprit = pierwszy winowajca principal culprit
  • No doubt he felt deeply and expressed himself strongly, but he was, in fact, not always the principal culprit.
  • Rather, the new findings indicate, prematurity is the principal culprit.
  • While Greenhouse gases are the principal culprit, other factors may be involved, as summarized in this diagram.
  • Inequality in the United States has indeed increased over the past 15 years, but the tax code was not the principal culprit.
  • The principal culprits in all this, the President insisted, were the Congressional Democrats, and especially their leaders.
  • The company's head, Martin Feinstein, pointed to the tax laws as a principal culprit.
  • The principal culprit for the capital's plight, ecologists and Government officials agree, is the rapidly growing number of cars.
  • "The financiers are really the principal culprits," he said.
  • The defendants disputed over who among them was the principal culprit and when they agreed to kill the victim.
  • Meanwhile the scandal was discussed in political circles, with Fazio singled out as the principal culprit and there were repeated calls for his resignation.
2. principal offender = pierwszy przestępca principal offender
4. principal conspirator = pierwszy spiskowiec principal conspirator
(67) forum, airport
Kolokacji: 2
(69) liaison, link, contact
Kolokacji: 3
(70) grape, Viola
Kolokacji: 2
(71) official, regulator
Kolokacji: 2
(72) virtue, merit
Kolokacji: 2
(73) shrine, mosque
Kolokacji: 2
(74) weakness, flaw
Kolokacji: 2
(75) earner, breadwinner
Kolokacji: 2
(76) keeper, curator
Kolokacji: 2
(77) ancestor, priority
Kolokacji: 2

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