Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] used " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the Second World War considerable damage was done to the docks by enemy action , and they have now been restored as part of the World Trade Centre , with the dock as a yachting harbour and the surviving warehouses used as trading floors with shops beneath , an imaginative example of redevelopment combined with conservation . |
| 2 | The parsing algorithm used is unique to the ANLT ( Phillips , 1986 ) . |
| 3 | Since a number of factors determine whether a form of expression will be taken up into popular speech , and somewhat different factors will operate within and outside the black community , not all Creole forms used by black speakers will achieve wider currency , though some will . |
| 4 | Using data supplied by local police forces and government ministries , the report stated that ( i ) 4,611 children and adolescents had died from violence over the previous three years , more than 50 per cent of them shot and the rest killed by stabbing , beating , poisoning or strangling ; ( ii ) young girls were raped and many had died from clandestine abortions after becoming prostitutes ; ( iii ) children were exploited from the age of three by professional beggars , from the age of six by drug traffickers and , if they survived , ended up in armed groups used by criminal gangs and even the police ; ( iv ) the abuse of drugs and solvents was common among street children ; ( v ) an estimated 3,000 children were illegally adopted annually by foreigners , 50 per cent going to Italy and 30 per cent to France , who paid up to US$20,000 for a white child ; and ( vi ) 25,000,000 out of 45,000,000 children were chronically underfed , 30 per cent lived in poverty and 10,000 were child workers . |
| 5 | Using these techniques , a network of links between many finds and archaeological layers ( contexts ) form a dated framework used to date other finds and contexts . |
| 6 | Orford Ness , where a staff of 2,000 once worked , has been involved in national defence research and development since the First World War when aircraft fitted with armaments were first tested.Research into bomb ballistics was carried out from 1929 and among the researchers was Barnes Wallis who became famous for inventing the bouncing bombs used against the Mohne and Eder dams during the Second World War . |
| 7 | A Decision is a binding administrative measure used in individual cases to implement the Treaties where the institutions themselves are responsible , such as the Commission decision to grant aid to the UK coal industry . |
| 8 | Fabric strip with regular rings and two enclosed cords used for shirring blinds like the Austrian or Festoon variety . |
| 9 | Mr Bates ' claims that the Labour case used on TV was bogus angered his Langbaurgh Labour opponent Ashok Kumar who said : ‘ There are genuine cases of suffering up and down the country . |
| 10 | Graph search terminology allows us to give a breakdown of the minimum requirements of the sort of mechanism required to search this space , regardless of ( i ) how information about valid paths is retrieved , ( ii ) how the search space is constructed and stored , and ( iii ) the specific strategies used for searching that space . |
| 11 | In addition , this article addresses the problematic notion of character " development " and argues that this may be accounted for in terms of a change in the conversational strategies used by a character , from which changes in attitude are inferable . |
| 12 | The subtle mind used against itself by the simple mind . |
| 13 | The technical term used for this cash limit is the external finance limit ( EFL ) , reflecting its rather different status . |
| 14 | ‘ Materials unaccounted for ’ is the specific term used for any kind of discrepancy between the book inventory and the actual inventory . ’ |
| 15 | The specific term used for such an exercise is ‘ one-step semi-free sparring ’ . |
| 16 | Cava is the Spanish term used to describe sparkling wine made by the champagne method . |
| 17 | The aerosol dry lubricant illustrated contains ptfe powder — the non-stick ingredient used for coating pans . |
| 18 | ‘ Bluffing ’ is thus an indexical term used in different ways by Easton 's section police . |
| 19 | In principle the tensors P1 and Q1 can be calculated for any shape but spheres and ellipsoids are the usual shapes used with cylinders and discs as the limiting cases . |
| 20 | The typical economic variables used in empirical studies , variables such as output , prices and interest rates , are such that it is usually possible to think of some reason why any one of them might exert an independent influence on another . |
| 21 | Franklin , USA : Porter Paints ' products have been used in the restoration of historic homes used as a command post and refuge for the wounded during the Battle of Franklin in the American Civil War . |
| 22 | Morbidity is a broad term used to describe non-mortal patterns of ill health within the population . |
| 23 | This included fifteen actual vintage aircraft , thirty rebuilt trainers for use by the American film unit , another 21 rebuilt trainers used in the Japanese produced scenes , and thirty P–40 mock-ups for targets . |
| 24 | Their targets were frequently public houses used as gathering places by the Provisional IRA and the chance of killing co-religionists was small . |
| 25 | FIGURE 4 : French technique used on ice . |
| 26 | At the back , however , the old semi-trailing arm set-up is replaced with what BMW calls a ‘ central pull-rod axle ’ — essentially the multi-link arrangement with centrally mounted longitudinal link used to great effect on BMW 's now-defunct Z1 sports car . |
| 27 | His brother , Francisco Garçia Lorca , has very finely defined the canciones , one of the most notable poetic forms used by Lorca , as a lyric in which : the poet checks his first flights in order to achieve greater purification … |
| 28 | This confusion between providers is compounded by the different definitions used by departments and agencies to identify their clients . |
| 29 | Essentially , this is what tallies were , wooden sticks used in accounting and common all over Europe . |
| 30 | For those who did choose healthy alternatives , the most popular product was low-fat margarine used by nearly half the sample , followed by skimmed milk used by 40% . |