Gracious lyricism is the predominant mode.
But in those areas, "the predominant mode of transportation is the automobile," Citibank said.
While the predominant mode is comic, "Getting a Life" manages to be frighteningly unsentimental about middle-class (in the American sense) family life.
As a student, I lived in the middle of Oxford, where cycling is the predominant mode of transport, and I cycled everywhere.
My generation grew up in a more blinkered time, when rock was the predominant mode of youthful musical expression.
Non-motorised transport remains the predominant mode of transportation in most African and Asian cities, particularly those where incomes are low and the level of public transport is poor.
From around 1890 to 1920, the rural byways and bucolic settings of the Greenwich area known as Cos Cob served as summer camp, school and stomping ground for a group of artists whose predominant mode was American Impressionism.
Throughout history, horses have paid an excruciating price as we built our civilizations on their backs, forced them into our bloody wars and bestowed on them the agonizing fate of being the predominant mode of transportation.
In fact, the predominant mode of "Al-Sham" (the Arabic word for Syria but also for the Levant and, to some, Damascus) is one of helplessness.
The two phase (boiling) heat transfer is the predominant mode of heat transfer during quenching.
The predominant mode of injury was road traffic accident (17 patients).
