Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [adv] [vb pp] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The isotope most commonly used for measurement of colonic transit is 9 9 m Tc-DTPA in liquid form , or it may also be incorporated into ispaghula husk to simulate the physical properties of faeces more closely . |
| 2 | The kind most widely favoured for jewellery , at least in the west , was a delicate pale pink , but in and around Hawaii a black variety might be used for this purpose , and the Chinese were particularly keen on deep red coral for their carvings . |
| 3 | Six months of 12-hour days , six days a week — that 's what it has taken to film the only four Wexford stories not previously adapted for TV . |
| 4 | The treatment of choice most often reported for adenocarcinoma of the oesophagus is surgery . |
| 5 | The other reason most often given for government ownership is that government needs a voice of its own and can not rely on the privately owned press . |
| 6 | The convention most often mistaken for logic is explicitness , which , he shows , is not the same thing at all . |
| 7 | Among the benefits most frequently claimed for collaboration are : i That there are cost savings for both R&D and production , by sharing costs and through longer production runs . |
| 8 | I sat on a log among the shadows of creatures now extinct and others long since departed for pasture in the south . |