Example sentences of "[conj] be used [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In addition , the research provides a detailed account of the mental processes that are used as the reader understands each new word in a sentence .
2 Gibble and Chu are not distressed by the discrepancy , because there is fair uncertainty in the interatomic potentials that are used in the calculation .
3 They are identification numbers that are used in the description below .
4 He uses the term ‘ power-dependence ’ to describe this mutual dependency and suggests five resources that are used in the relationship between central and local government .
5 There are worrying signs of a new development by publishers to encourage the selling of supplementary materials to textbooks that are used in the school .
6 The rags bear smears of the same pigments that are used in the depiction of the body , which is itself rendered with heavily loaded and encrusted paint .
7 Of the two materials that are used in the paper industry , pulp is always preferable to waste paper and in Cali , pulp can easily be imported .
8 Do n't confuse the environment with the wider systems of interest , which , although providing inputs and receiving outputs , exercise control over the system being considered , normally by setting the standards , rules and so on ; additionally , the wider system often provides the resources that are used by the subject system .
9 On archaeological sites , pits are frequently found that were used for the disposal of household refuse that would nowadays be put in a dustbin , collected by the municipal authorities , and taken to a communal rubbish tip .
10 Yet these were the methods that were used in the South Ronaldsay alleged child abuse case .
11 The manufacturing process involves the two cost centres X and Y. The following data relates to the resources that were used in the manufacture of the product until 19X1 :
12 Vietnamese Communism had to cope with the problems of economic reconstruction in an area devastated by the years of war , and also with the integration of the South into the methods of social administration and economic management that were used in the North .
13 Why ca n't the same methods that were used by the Commonwealth yesterday vis a vis Rhodesia , vis a vis Namibia and vis a vis South Africa , not be applied in respect of the colonial and settlerist situation here .
14 Will the Minister discuss with the regional chairman the formula base that is used for the distribution of money to the districts ?
15 While some types require a separate battery , most can be powered by the same battery that is used for the receiver and servos .
16 ‘ Sovereignty ’ is a word open to misunderstanding and one that is used in the sphere of international law ( for example , the dispute with Argentina over the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands ) , and also in the political arena ( for example , in the debates on the United Kingdom 's membership of the European Community and on subsequent issues such as the Single European Act 1986 and European Monetary Union , there was considerable rhetoric on sovereignty ) .
17 It 's the British National Corpus , they 're trying to record languages that is used in the U K
18 The successful " buck-a-day " cost-cutting programme that is used in the USA works because the strong motivation Is applied for a short time .
19 Fyllo in Greek means ‘ leaf ’ which is why it gives its name to the wafer-thin filo pastry that is used in the preparation of Middle Eastern pastries .
20 This is a deliberate training strategy that is used in the clinic and observed so that the parent learns how to do it at home .
21 The death instincts provide what might be termed the ‘ negative energy ’ that is used in the compulsion to repeat unpleasant experiences , which is a masochistic use of primal , sadistic impulses which take the ego as object , rather than an external object .
22 ‘ Precatory ’ neither ( as in English law ) implied caution about the clarity of intention , nor was used as the touchstone for deciding whether a disposition was a trust .
23 The recording system that was used for the baseline should be continued in exactly the same form .
24 Yet at the time the report was released , the actual company that was used as the basis for the research had been trading for five months and is coping well with a difficult launch period and providing to be highly successful in meeting its targets .
25 It was a misperception of the parental perspective that was used by the professionals to legitimise the latter 's recommendations .
26 The pressure of the stylus causes the two conductive surfaces to make contact , a principle that was used in the Sinclair ZX81 's keyboard .
27 There , they will be able to ride in a train hauled by a 102-year-old locomotive that was used in the construction of the last mainline railway to be built in Britain .
28 In the early years of the twentieth century he made contributions to the techniques of gunnery , for instance , in improving ballistic calculations , designing a range-finder that was used in the Boer war , and a new form of gun-sight for the Navy .
29 Firstly , there is a restatement of the determinate relationship which here includes a wider specification of consciousness than was used in the critique of idealist thought :
30 The logical result is that in a month of war more high explosive has been dropped on Iraq than was used in the whole of world war two .
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