adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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most
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The interaction between effective but sensitive community self-surveillance and police surveillance has emerged as perhaps the most favoured approach.
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It included mutual most favoured nation status.
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And anyway, the calcium chloride was the most favoured .
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Brain-storming One of the most favoured techniques for generating ideas is brain-storming.
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area
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After two or three such years their numbers build up spectacularly within favoured areas .
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The bias means that the favoured areas is given preference.
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The favoured area becomes the reference to which the others have to be aligned.
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And national or local government may offer subsidies for businesses to set up in favoured areas .
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Damage to especially favoured areas , such as mangroves and coral reefs, can have far reaching effects elsewhere.
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Thus well-protected holiday beaches sometimes take a toll from less favoured areas .
candidate
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At present Mycobacterium paratuberculosis is the favoured candidate .
nation
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It included mutual most favoured nation status.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be favoured to do sth
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After two or three such years their numbers build up spectacularly within favoured areas.
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Consequently, this is the least favoured method unless you especially want to echo screen output to the printer.
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Palm-greasing for just about anything from entry to a favoured school to obtaining a bank loan has been considered a fact of life.
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The difference of treatment for the two bids gave rise to criticism that the government's merger policy favoured conglomerates.