Example sentences of "[adv] often [vb pp] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the kind of tragedy that so often called for sympathy — a momentary sympathy and thrill of horror , mixed with shamefaced satisfaction that it had happened to someone else -before one passed on to less disturbing news . |
| 2 | ( Plasmas are more often used for polymer synthesis and for surface treatments such as metal nitriding ) . |
| 3 | Vector chain coding techniques ( e.g. Freeman , 1961 ) , which code six or eight directions of strokes ( see chapter 2 for more details ) are also often used for pattern recognition . |
| 4 | The convention most often mistaken for logic is explicitness , which , he shows , is not the same thing at all . |
| 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 treatment of choice most often reported for adenocarcinoma of the oesophagus is surgery . |