Example sentences of "[prep] [be] use " in BNC.
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| 1 | Examples from everyday experience arise in the " tackiness ' of rubber solution , or the ability of polystyrene , for instance , to form threads when softened by solvents such as are used by model makers . |
| 2 | Disease is seen most frequently in breeding and rearing establishments where outdoor pens , such as are used for breeding pheasants , are in use . |
| 3 | A £10,000 Ford Sierra RS Cosworth stolen from a driveway in Brook Meadow , Sible Hedingham , was found damaged in Cambridgeshire after being used in a burglary in that county . |
| 4 | AGONY : Gena tore off her own tail after being used in research |
| 5 | Could of been using me French |
| 6 | Referring to their work observing a house which was suspected of being used for prostitution , the policemen remarked that it was ‘ a wee tuppence ha'penny job ’ . |
| 7 | People of all types with unusual objects upon their person are also considered suspicious , whether this be holdalls or pocketfuls of 2p pieces ( suspected of being used to entice children ) . |
| 8 | But the prospect of being used as ‘ human shields ’ — as in pre-Gulf War Iraq — is discounted . |
| 9 | The results should be capable of being used formatively and to indicate any particular need for support for the child , or for more specific diagnostic assessment . |
| 10 | Although the courts do not refuse in principle to review the exercise of police discretionary powers , they do nevertheless exercise a great deal of caution and restraint to such a degree that it is difficult to see how in practice the principles of judicial review are capable of being used to challenge decisions to issue warrants where these are considered to be necessary for the prevention or detection of crime . |
| 11 | If I remember rightly , you pointed out forcibly that no man would look the side she was on ever again because cheap women had no hope of anything in the future but of being used . |
| 12 | Taylor and Urquhart observe that , for the great majority of research materials , use of an item declines rapidly about three years after publication , so that after this period any book has an equally low chance of being used . |
| 13 | Information that is received in the course of the decision-making process has a far greater chance of being used than information that is stored within the organization . |
| 14 | Only by having fought every battle and won can we be free from the constraints of being used to act out the wheel of life and be truly ourselves . |
| 15 | In both cases the theory becomes more important than the development being investigated , so that the evidence is made to fit , instead of being used to test , the theory . |
| 16 | But whatever definition one accepts , let us agree that there are such categories , and for the purpose of this work I shall define productive labour as being : labour which is exchanged with capital and produces a surplus-value , a surplus-value moreover which is embodied in material commodities , the form of which is capable of being used as capital for the reproduction and extension of capital . |
| 17 | However , a recent innovation looks capable of being used throughout the mouth . |
| 18 | The Behringer studio noise gate can be likened to a surgeon 's scalpel ; it 's a shining , finely-honed blade of a rack unit , innocent enough in the hands of the unwary , but capable of being used to lethal effect . |
| 19 | In many cases the possibility of being used in painful research would be a prospect that they could grasp and would not relish . |
| 20 | His remarks were made when one of the locations used to store a unique collection of German literature taken from Germany in 1945 was recently handed back to the Orthodox Church , after four decades of being used as a store for the collection . |
| 21 | So that , when young gentlemen were on the rampage , the past — instead of being used as a stick with which to beat the deteriorated present — became the justification for taking a lenient view . |
| 22 | American courts were to exercise a special vigilance to protect foreign litigants from abusive discovery , for example demands for excessive numbers of depositions or documents involving high transportation costs and capable of being used as a device to secure a settlement of the case . |
| 23 | In deriving more detailed criteria capable of being used , for example , to generate the required assessments , it is necessary to make use of what is known from previous research about pupils ' learning and attainment in the topic concerned . |
| 24 | As a result of our decision Mr. Nathan 's successor in title will be left with the freehold of the remainder of No. 263–265 which , though retail premises , will have no frontage to a shopping street : the L.C.C . 's successors in title will have the freehold to a strip of land with a road frontage but probably incapable of being used save in conjunction with the land from which it was severed in 1930 , i.e. the remainder of No. 263–265 . |
| 25 | Eighth , do n't expect to get any sort of sensible answers from a company who sells computers which happen to be capable of being used for desktop publishing . |
| 26 | Can the Minister justify the payment of more than £234,000 of public money to accountants , bureaucrats and consultants to prepare opting-out submissions when that money can be better used to reduce waiting lists or to make a donation to the appeal for the Royal hospital for sick children in Edinburgh instead of being used to propagate Tory party propaganda which is not wanted by the people of Scotland and which would damage the health service in Scotland ? |
| 27 | The stock is , to the extent that it has not already been used or sold in the ordinary and normal course of trading in good condition and working order and capable of being used or sold in the ordinary and normal course of trading . |
| 28 | At the core of the treaty was a detailed procedure for " challenge inspections " , under which at 108 hours ' notice international inspectors could investigate sites suspected of being used for making or storing chemical weapons . |
| 29 | He gives the impression of being used to work , strong and rough . |
| 30 | The approach must be capable of being used routinely . |