Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Caesium is , of course , the largest simple cation in the periodic table and zeolites are widely used as detergent builders to ‘ bind ’ smaller ions , eg Ca 2+ . |
| 2 | Mixed with QACs they are widely used as skin disinfectants and are mainly associated with medical uses as are chlorhexidine gluconate and cetrimide . |
| 3 | They are widely used as entrance qualifications for higher education . |
| 4 | For example , silicone oils are widely used in convection experiments : they can be obtained with different viscosities , but otherwise similar properties , which provides a convenient method of varying the Prandtl number ; and the viscosity varies with temperature much less than for many fluids . |
| 5 | The latest implementation , X Window Version 11 Release 3 , emerged a year ago , and has been widely adopted by Unix suppliers and by DEC , with Unix ( Ultrix ) and VAX VMS versions . |
| 6 | * This has been widely used for car windscreens and , in a much more sophisticated form , is being developed for serious engineering in America . |
| 7 | Exercise Increasing expenditure of surplus calories through exercise and increasing metabolic rate has not been widely used in treatment strategies , although Cohen et al . |
| 8 | Despite the fact that the reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction has been widely used in research laboratories , its clinical utility in chronic hepatitis C is not established . |
| 9 | The result had been widely predicted by opinion polls which showed that the Labour Party ( in government since 1984 ) had lost the confidence of the electorate . |
| 10 | This technique has been successfully applied to lung washings from patients with sarcoidosis , and M tuberculosis DNA was detected in half of the samples . |
| 11 | Marais ) have been successfully established in trial plantings . |
| 12 | In general , children over the age of 5 or 6 years are mostly treated by enuresis clinics . |
| 13 | In many of these parks , which are mostly located in savanna regions , tourists regularly drive off the existing game-viewing tracks into the dry terrain and there is concern that increased tourist traffic will detrimentally alter the environment . |
| 14 | So do other goods , such as batteries , which are rarely found in state shops . |
| 15 | This is partly because surgery and drugs have not succeeded in banishing the ‘ diseases of civilisation ’ ( such as cancer , degenerative diseases of the cardiovascular , respiratory and other systems , and allergies ) and there is growing realisation that many of these diseases are intimately related to life styles and attitudes . |
| 16 | To make matters worse , the monopolistic character of the sector has been blatantly exploited by trade unions , though over the longer run this has probably resulted in major job losses since most of the industries are subject to competition in the form of alternative goods . |
| 17 | These are locally interbedded with carbonate muds and bioclastic and pisolitic sands . |
| 18 | Silent battles are constantly waging as coral colonies fight each other for living space and , as with fish , every species of invertebrate has its predators and many of these are other invertebrates . |
| 19 | Some composers have written extended works on early music ( e.g. The Taverner Fantasy of Maxwell Davies , Roger Smalley 's compendium of pieces based on Blitheman 's Gloria tibi Trinitas ) which are obviously conceived as variation forms . |
| 20 | Environmentalists fear that the programme is designed to conceal a retreat from a campaign pledge made by President Clinton to increase average fuel efficiency required by law to 40 mpg by 2000 and 45 mpg by 2015 , which has been fiercely resisted by car companies . |
| 21 | If these players are so involved in league games why on earth are entering individual championships knowing rightly that they will run into the inevitable date clash ? |
| 22 | However , once we start to distort the operation of open justice and the consideration of the matters , we may very well , through the operation of rumour and all its insidious effects that are so damaging in libel cases — the only justification that I know for the high damages granted in such cases — inflict more damage on justice than we realise . |
| 23 | The Main and Copy Databases are only accessed by batch processes and are not available directly to the lexicographers . |
| 24 | Edit the RDBI configuration file and ensure that mappings are only specified for LIFESPAN users listed at the USER ACCESS , MODULE ACCESS and DC ACCESS keywords . |
| 25 | According to a report by the Japanese news agency Kyodo on Sept. 27 these had recently been brutally suppressed by government troops who had killed at least 327 demonstrators ; this claim was firmly denied by the Bhutanese government , however . |
| 26 | These overruns are admittedly based on cost estimates calculated on the old , target basis , which makes them slightly exaggerated in the PWR appraisal context . |
| 27 | Routes to England and France are normally flown at flight levels 50 and 40 respectively , and present an opportunity for a reasonable period in cruise mode . |
| 28 | On the other hand , very few checklists have been systematically evaluated in relation to the formal criteria which are normally applied to language tests ( see Chapter 8 ) . |
| 29 | An obvious example is that old editions are normally withdrawn from library shelves as new editions are added to stock . |
| 30 | There appear to be mountings for the transformer but once again I suspect that these are best ignored for safety reasons . |