Preposition: with

• ability: Must be customer focused and conscientious with the ability to work as part of a team willing and able to support your peers.

• regard: Prony seems to have lost heart for the continuing struggle and to have been less conscientious with regard to his duties as examiner.

Preposition: than

• man: Women ( 94 per cent ) are more conscientious than men ( 86 per cent ) at wearing a seatbelt.

Modifies a noun

• objector: Back to the top I'm not a conscientious objector - why should I be involved in the campaign?

• objection: Are people with a conscientious objection able to counsel patients?

• scruple: In this case there were no conscientious scruples to overcome.

• historian: Is the " conscientious historian " standard therefore biased in favor of maintenance of the status quo?

• clause: There is a conscientious objection clause for medical staff, with provision for the patient to be referred to another doctor.

• effort: What the commission asks of you is to make a conscientious good-faith effort to serve the public interest.

Modifying Another Word

• extremely: He was extremely conscientious from the very first day of the investigation.

• very: They are very conscientious about not taking advantage of the goodwill of professionals.

• too: Synopsis: Student John Burnham is just too conscientious and too hard-working.

• so: Few writers of fiction have been so exact or so conscientious as he was regarding his facts.

• highly: She was an only child and had been highly conscientious and hard working, with little time for play.

Used with adjective complement

• become: But actually the children became more conscientious about their own learning.

• seek: TRANSLATION CO-ORDINATOR We are seeking conscientious, motivated individuals to join our busy administrative tea.

• do: Brown & Root probably does as conscientious a job for the government as the next contractor.