Infinitive complement

• combine: Please note that when considering suicide data, it is conventional to combine deaths by intentional self harm with deaths of undetermined intent.

Modifies a noun

• wisdom: Hit with an conventional wisdom you'd states provides insurance the first major.

• breeding: The story of the Killer Bee provides a cautionary tale -- from conventional breeding.

• medicine: However, the benefits of conventional medicine remained apparent.

• weapon: The report does note a minority of intelligence analysts believes the tubes are for conventional weapons, not a nuclear program.

• farming: With conventional farming, you don't want the public around your farm?

• method: Conventional mining methods are not suited to working the deeply buried or offshore coal deposits.

Modifying Another Word

• purely: Its crucial you dont see economic development as purely conventional private sector model.

• merely: They put real details of portraiture into things that are thought merely conventional.

• entirely: To be a novel, it is generally considered desirable to have some kind of story and in this Hogan is entirely conventional.

• pretty: Until starting Your Move Games, Inc. , I had a pretty conventional " business " background.

• rather: The result seems to be a rather conventional disciplinary hierarchy in which history provides the context which English uses to inform its literary analysis.

• largely: It's a largely conventional acoustic jazz piano set, recorded with Canadians Duncan Hopkins ( bass ) and Anthony Michelli ( drums ).

Used with adjective complement

• replace: Rather than just replacing conventional welding techniques, lasers can now deliver " brand new processing systems " .

• seem: The saucer's look seems conventional to the extent that it is a domed disk.

• remain: The diversity of his compositions demonstrate his desire to experiment with many forms, even if the format and orchestration remained conventional.

• look: The effect is unnerving since although a scene looks conventional, it feels wrong.

• become: Of course it is important that you don't become conventional about what is you think you might want to do.

• use: Model descriptions are create using conventional CAD tools, and the data produced is used to drive large, expensive model building machines.