Example sentences of "[is] used [verb] [adj] [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 The semi-colon is used to link two clauses that are closely related and would sound disjointed if kept separate as two sentences .
2 It is used to suppress emotional feelings and it serves to isolate the sufferer from other people and to make him or her feel " special and different " .
3 A similar technique is used to resolve anaphoric references and similar syntactic ambiguities .
4 Main classes are denoted by a capital letter , and in most classes a second capital letter is used to signal major sections or subclasses .
5 If an operator goes out of business the fund is used to rescue stranded holiday-makers or to provide alternative holidays .
6 The more volatile the shares , the greater the capital requirement which has a corollary with risk weighted assets for banks — the greater the riskiness of the assets , the greater the capital requirement and counterparty capital is used to cover any problems that might occur during settlement procedures .
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