Example sentences of "be [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Although the current version of the LBS model places considerable weight on relative money supplies , and implicitly on purchasing power parity , current research is based on two propositions which are widely accepted in North America :
2 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+ .
3 Mixed with QACs they are widely used as skin disinfectants and are mainly associated with medical uses as are chlorhexidine gluconate and cetrimide .
4 They are widely used as entrance qualifications for higher education .
5 Terminals and wires are widely used for power transfer by nearly all manufacturers .
6 As econometric models are widely used for policy evaluation and forecasting the economy 's performance , it is important that their construction should be well founded .
7 In Nigeria until very recently it has been very strongly reflected in the national syllabus guidelines and materials or derivatives are widely used at state level .
8 Lotteries and competitions are widely used in North America as are consumer promotions .
9 The suggestions that follow are based on models that are widely used in management development and leadership training .
10 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 .
11 But the impact of vestry policy on population movements and particularly on the supply of labour to industry and its cost has been little explored at parish level .
12 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 .
13 Elements of this technique have been widely adopted in manufacturing industry , and work study , time-and-motion analysis , and payments-by-results schemes are all children of this ‘ scientific management ’ approach .
14 * This has been widely used for car windscreens and , in a much more sophisticated form , is being developed for serious engineering in America .
15 Exercise Increasing expenditure of surplus calories through exercise and increasing metabolic rate has not been widely used in treatment strategies , although Cohen et al .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 But two short cuts are expressly discouraged in CAB training : the first is the adviser trusting to memory .
19 Certain members of the Olympic Vibes team have been in serious disarray after one glimpse of this , and the guilty lightweights have been duly suspended from club duty .
20 The slick/typographic ads are lavishly produced in oil paint , lending an absurd gravitas to an inherently transient subject .
21 In addition , although the motor cortex is highly active , generating activity which would normally result in movement , these commands do not reach the muscles controlling the limbs , but are " switched off " at a relay station at the top of the spinal column , so that we are effectively paralysed during REM sleep .
22 For example , the geochemistry of certain lithologies in the East Grampians is such that soils developed on them are inadequately buffered against acid rain — a potential threat to freshwater fisheries in the area .
23 Although covered by thick Tertiary basalts and Lough Neagh Clay , its western margin has been successfully mapped by reconnaissance Vibroseis .
24 This technique has been successfully applied to lung washings from patients with sarcoidosis , and M tuberculosis DNA was detected in half of the samples .
25 Of course , similar materials have been successfully applied to fibre pile , as in the present range of Pertex covered pile from buffalo Designs .
26 Recently inductively coupled plasma spectrometry ( see glossary ) , which is related to atomic absorption , has also been successfully applied to flint analysis .
27 Marais ) have been successfully established in trial plantings .
28 In general , children over the age of 5 or 6 years are mostly treated by enuresis clinics .
29 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 .
30 Among the developing nations that are worst affected by soil erosion are Mexico , Ethiopia and many more African states , as well as India , Pakistan and China ( see review in Brown and Wolf 1984 ) .
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