Example sentences of "[conj] [be] [adv] used [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Defining formulas are certain words or phrases that are frequently used in definitions , such as ’ the quality or state of being ’ or ’ of or relating to ’ , and these have been used to identify a variety of lexical-semantic relations in dictionary definitions . |
| 2 | This enquiry is similar to the one above , but refers to those facilities that are jointly used by neighbours over a third person 's property . |
| 3 | The suggestions that follow are based on models that are widely used in management development and leadership training . |
| 4 | Footpath erosion is also a common feature of landscapes that are widely used by walkers . |
| 5 | In particular they demonstrate how definitions can be used to generate word-relation-word triples that are then used as data to build the lexicon . |
| 6 | As a result historians have developed a stock of general labels that are often used for convenience . |
| 7 | The French doctors started me on a long-term course of antibiotics that are commonly used in France to fight toxoplasmosis and my blood tests were stepped up to once a week . ’ |
| 8 | The aims are to provide data that is not currently available about the earliest stages of diabetic eye disease , and enable a reassessment of the screening strategies that are currently used by GPs and optometrists for detecting the condition . |
| 9 | It is ethyl acetate and isopropanol , not their systematic equivalents , that are still used in coating or laminating flexible webs for numerous industrial applications . |
| 10 | As we saw when considering the interactionist critique of positivism , there are two particularly important reasons for this : first , the processes of definition and application produce the data specifying the nature of , and the trends in , crime , and the characteristics of criminals that are subsequently used by criminologists to construct their theories and explanations ; second , these processes of definition and application have consequences for the meanings , implications and justifications that those ‘ labelled ’ by them give to their own actions . |
| 11 | A central feature in improved access via natural language may be a computer-based thesaurus or lexicon that is not used in indexing , but which shows all the word variants and relationships between terms that the searcher might encounter in natural language searching , and is available both for display and to expand and develop search strategies . |
| 12 | Our own solution has been to subject the material about each author to a formal analysis , applying a psychiatric assessment procedure that is widely used in research and clinical practice . |
| 13 | The elderly population is based on the estimated increase in population of the over seventy five year olds , and indeed that is the factor that is now used in S S A in terms of looking er , the need to spend on elderly people . |
| 14 | The procedure is to simulate the effects of input data uncertainty by a Monte Carlo approach that is often used in statistics to perform exact significance tests . |
| 15 | There has been one very disturbing factor in keeping this particular type of fish , and that has been discovering the incredible cruelty that is sometimes used in order to increase the sale of them . |
| 16 | Vinyl sheet flooring is the modern equivalent of linoleum , and provides a smooth , hygienic and easy-to-clean floorcovering that 's widely used in kitchens , bathrooms and hallways . |
| 17 | The 172s at the Queenstown club all have Air Wakitipu emblazoned on their flanks and are regularly used by CFI Carlton Campbell and his instructor team to take tourists flying over Lake Wakatipu , the Remarkables range and other mountains and glaciers in the neighbourhood . |
| 18 | Devonian plants , the earliest known terrestrial plants , are seen at Rhynie , and are regularly used by palaeobotanists to develop techniques and expertise . |
| 19 | While victim studies and self-report studies overlap to some extent and are sometimes used in conjunction , they are distinct approaches which need to be defined separately . |
| 20 | The first two terms describe rugs which are long and narrow — usually where the length is over 2½ times the width — and are often used in place of the word " rug " ( i.e. a Shirvan runner or Yahyali strip ) . |
| 21 | This is called cost effectiveness analysis and is regularly used in defence , public health and other fields . |
| 22 | Barley straw is soft and palatable , and is widely used as bulk feed for beef cattle . |
| 23 | Other bit image formats are GIF , which uses LZW compression and is widely used for clip art ; PIC , which is used by the Halo screen art programme ; and CUT , which uses the enhanced small disk drive RLL compression algorithm . |
| 24 | It is sold as an enhancer of the oxygen-carrying capacity of the blood , and is widely used by athletes in the USSR , says Dr Robert Woodward of Contassium . |
| 25 | Provision of such phase-related signals is described as phase splitting and is widely used in electronics for various purposes . |
| 26 | This came from Morton 's Italian subsidiary and used to have a good market in Eastern Europe , though this has recently collapsed , and is widely used in sport shops and luggage , being washable and breathable — and cheaper than real leather . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's like selling coal to Newcastle , as eleutherococcus comes from Siberia and is widely used in Russia , ’ said Eladon director Mr Ross . |
| 28 | Cleft grafting on the spot is the primary example of field grafting and is widely used in California where varieties of vines cultivated change rapidly with fashion : a grower simply cuts off the whole of his existing variety at rootstock level and clefts on the new desired variety . |
| 29 | This was developed by the Aldus Corporation and Microsoft particularly for images obtaining from scanning devices , and is widely used in desk top publishing . |
| 30 | is milder than black and is best used with fish , white meats and delicate sauces , where both the flavour and appearance of black pepper would be inappropriate . |