"Cases are chosen primarily on the basis of their intractable course and their resistance to the usual procedures," Worthing explained.
The armies of chorus girls he used, though, were chosen primarily for their beauty, not for their dancing ability.
The opening number, Shostakovich's bustling "Festive Overture," seemed chosen primarily to release some jitters among the musicians.
Danny Graham belatedly opened his Sunderland account, 28 games and 28 months after his £5m move from Swansea, but was chosen primarily to offer an outlet in attack.
A year later a judge cast doubt on an interim appointment, finding that the person had been chosen primarily to please Mr Paisley's party.
The $750 weekend hotels were chosen primarily for their rock-bottom nightly rates, and hotels in the $1,000 and $1,250 categories were chosen for their value relative to their locations or amenities.
The emotionless male voice that supplies the pronunciations for the dictionary's sound clips belongs to an actor "chosen primarily for his clarity of speech," said Jeffrey Smith, the group product manager for Encarta.
One is framed by the journeys of a Nebraska couple who seem to have been chosen primarily because they kept detailed photo albums and journals of their trips to national parks.
But the accompanying taramasalata, a classic Greek dip made with fish roe, was remarkably bland, and seemed, like too many things at Simon & the Whale, chosen primarily for its visual effect: it's millennial pink.
The Danish capital was chosen primarily because it was cheap to get to and only a couple of us had been before, although thoughts of Nordic superbabes on every corner helped too.
