Example sentences of "[noun] be use [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The indicators which vary most with income are used to create a summary index of standard of living , using principal component analysis for specific household types and for all household types .
2 I do not deal with the equally hard problem of the patient who is admitted unconscious to hospital after a suicide attempt , where the doctrines of implied consent or necessity are used to justify a doctor in treating him .
3 In that system too there was no requirement that set words be used to establish a trust , but the law insisted that words be used which manifested an intention on the part of the settlor to impose the obligation of a trust on the donee .
4 Can any bricks be used to lay a path ?
5 Measured aliquots of lipid stock solutions were used to produce a model bile with the desired composition : cholesterol — 10 mol% , bile salt ( sodium taurocholate ) — 72 mol% , phospholipid ( egg yolk lecithin ) — 18 mol% , total lipid concentration — 8.0 g/dl .
6 Phostrogen Safer 's Natural Garden Fungicide is used to control a multitude of diseases such as powdery mildew on Phlox .
7 The term was used to signify a right of way between one place and another , rather than a physical entity defined by roadside verges with pavings underfoot .
8 In Out and Such one discourse is brought to bear on another through metaphor ; in Between , Thru , and Amalgamemnon the same type of metaphor is used to bring a number of discourses together in an increasingly interrogative conjunction .
9 The digitizing pen is used to define a zero angle on frame 1 and 330 degrees on frame 12 , and then the program automatically inserts all intervening points on a straight line passing through these extremes .
10 This test was used to ensure a 100% death rate of cells frozen in liquid nitrogen .
11 Because the junction of a pair of roundels produces a triangular interstitial space internally as well as externally , one of two such internal areas was used to accommodate a WC , which is reached from an intermediate landing of the staircase ( Fig 41 and Plate 17 ) .
12 The water is diverted by ingenious and simple means , with large stones , sods of grass , old woollens and nylon stockings being used to block a channel and divert the water to another one to irrigate the land and fill the storage tanks .
13 Lastly there is some evidence for a diamond , quartz or garnet-tipped point being used to cut a groove along which the garnet could be snapped into two .
14 CASE STUDY 5.3 — MRS J. In this second case a family meeting was used to help a family give an uncomfortable message .
15 In a host of well illustrated books and in the displays erected in the great museums , the fossil record was used to support a theory in which evolution worked through a series of progressive episodes , each sending out waves of new and more highly organized creatures to displace their now-stagnant predecessors .
16 ABOVE A resistivity meter being used to survey a site .
17 The taxi service is used to ferry a doctor and nurse cardiac team to patients with acute chest pain or symptoms suggesting a heart attack .
18 An example of this type of cache is used to transfer a Filename from use in one invocation of option 1.5.2 — Prepare Package for Approval to another invocation of the same option .
19 In China would be considered rhematic in both formulations ( unless stress is used to signal a difference in its thematic/rhematic status ) .
20 When dealing with bank loans , there may be particular difficulties where the house occupied by husband and wife is used to secure a business loan .
21 When emergency procedures are used to take a child into care , the Social Work Department has to obtain a Place of Safety order signed by a Sheriff or a Justice of the Peace .
22 Cluster headings are used to create a link between the criteria and each process .
23 Various behaviours are used to induce a loss in weight and in addition to the obvious ones of the avoidance of foot and undereating , including binge eating , self-induced vomiting , laxative use and the use of other drugs ( appetite suppressants and diuretics ) .
24 The values from at least two chromatograms were used to obtain a mean ; the percentage individual bile acid present was calculated from the micromolar concentrations .
25 A " bottom up " approach is used to construct a manpower profile .
26 The translate operation is used to convert a string from one character set to another .
27 A one inch brush is used to place a wash of sky colour across the paper .
28 A laser is used to etch a pattern of tiny flaws in the otherwise glassy smooth surface of the disc .
29 When the laser is used to kill a cell the adjacent cells often continue to develop normally showing that signals are not necessary .
30 On the day of study , endoscopy was used to place a manometry catheter into the transverse colon and intraluminal pressure was recorded for more than four hours .
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