Example sentences of "[adv] used for [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Nowadays the term paradigmatic is normally used for this type of relationship , on the model of the grammatical notion of a paradigm , a tabular representation of the conjugation of a verb or the declension of a noun or adjective .
2 When emeralds began to be cut , lapidaries found that their qualities were likely to be displayed to best advantage by step-cutting , and this method is still widely used for this stone , though brilliant cutting is sometimes applied .
3 No single measure of public expenditure has met with universal agreement , and even when one has been widely used for some time , it can be subject to change for a variety of reasons .
4 Three or four colours can be also used for this design in several different ways .
5 In a variation on this feat , the bull-leaper performed the ‘ Diving Leap ’ from a vantage point ; the large , stepped stone block in the north-west corner of the Bull Court at Phaistos was probably used for this purpose , and there may have been similar free-standing vaulting blocks at Knossos and Mallia .
6 Trichloromethane ( chloroform ) and propanone ( acetone ) are often used for this purpose .
7 Benzoic acid is often used for this purpose .
8 The index most often used for this purpose is the General Index of Retail Prices published by the Department of Employment .
9 Since film is a language which is expressed primarily in visual terms , it makes sense to plan your movies in a visual way , and the technique of storyboarding is often used for this reason .
10 Imagine that a child has expressed some meaning with an innovative term , a , and that this meaning is identical to the one expressed by term b , the term conventionally used for that meaning by adults — e.g. , plant-man versus gardener .
11 Methods commonly used for such processing involve using transitional probabilities ( for example the Viterbi algorithm or Markov modelling ) , using information about how letters combine ( for example n-grams ) , using lexical look-up , or combinations of these .
12 Methods commonly used for such processing involve using transitional probabilities ( for example the Viterbi algorithm or Markov modelling ) , using information about how letters combine ( for example n-grams ) , using lexical look-up , or combinations of these .
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