Example sentences of "be use [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Hadley , who had asked the questions , ceased to play with the two-toned ball pen he had been using as a remote muscle of his tongue . |
| 2 | Such terms are used for a wide range of contracts ; this book , however , is primarily concerned with the drafting of standard terms to govern contracts for the supply , or purchase , of goods ( in particular ) or services . |
| 3 | The same symbols are used for a two-handed process chart in which a detailed description of what each hand is doing separately is provided ( Fig. 1.20 ) . |
| 4 | Of course very few machines are used for a single application and in practice you need to balance the requirements of each application that you want to run . |
| 5 | In summer , the scrubbed slatted shelves inside the fruit house are used as a temporary store for soft fruits . |
| 6 | Rhizomes of A. rigidifolius are used as a medicinal herb in the East . |
| 7 | Other planning departments draw strategic conclusions from their own competitive analyses and these are used as a direct input into the final corporate plan . |
| 8 | Essences are used as a periodic treatment ; either once a week or daily for two weeks with a three to four week interval before resuming again . |
| 9 | The Lele are subsistence cultivators , growing maize , ground-nuts , and raffia palms from whose fronds they weave mats which are used as a special currency — a rare case of money really growing on trees . |
| 10 | I counted my basic fluids before I wrote this letter , I had 10 , all of which are used on a regular basis and about another 4 special fluids . |
| 11 | So although lexicographers may purposely employ experts to contribute to the compilation of definitions in more esoteric domains , it is nevertheless the case that more everyday words will have more widely understood patterns of usage that are reflected in both the definitions they possess and the manner in which they are used in a typical business letter . |
| 12 | They are used in a wide variety of ways , covering many different aspects of human existence , and there are often unexplored value judgements inherent in them . |
| 13 | However , because of the potential for error if the wrong terms are used in a particular transaction , it is probably better to have only one set of terms , and draft in appropriate provisions to allow them to be used for both consumer and business transactions , unless the client can keep its consumer and other business wholly separate . |
| 14 | And , why , you may argue that those criteria are too strict , those are criteria that are used in a medical sense . |
| 15 | When these are outgrown and more complex activities and materials are needed , the clear visibility of the item chosen can be enhanced if they are used against a contrasting background . |
| 16 | The first principle , Conventionality , is concerned with the maintenance of conventions about how expressions are used within a specific speech community . |
| 17 | Personal pagers ( ‘ bleepers ’ ) are used by a small number of staff , mainly key technical personnel in Estates . |
| 18 | There are about 50 known neurotransmitters , each of which are used by a particular set of neurones . |
| 19 | It may be obvious , as with lead shot from shooting or fishing producing elevated levels of Pb +&plus Sn +&plus Sb , batteries ( Pb +&plus Sb ) and brass ( Cu +&plus Zn ) but sometimes it may be more subtle where agricultural chemicals ( for example U in phosphates ) have been used on a wide scale . |
| 20 | In the Netherlands where Article 3(5) has been used on a large scale , the key element in the definition is that the handicap is external ( i.e. not arising from the farmer 's operating practices ) and permanent in the locality . |
| 21 | Staff questionnaires have also been used to a limited extent in many schools , but only a third of teachers had made considerable use of this method . |
| 22 | Indeed , this point has been used as a general criticism of the discrepancy hypothesis ( Thomas , 1971 ) . |
| 23 | Accounts of the emergence first of retirement and then of early retirement suggest that older people and , it must be said , particularly older men , have in fact been used as a reserve army of labour , to be tapped when labour is in short supply and to be shed when demand falls ( Graebner , 1980 ; Phillipson , 1982 ; Walker , 1985b ) . |
| 24 | It has been used as a collective noun for the action-sequences in which one person or a group of people direct action upon another , for the abstract concept of such types of action , as in the phrase ‘ act of aggression ’ , and for the drive or impulse or intention which animates individual people to interfere with or even physically attack others . |
| 25 | The amount of luck that would be required for this feat is unthinkable , and has been used as a telling mind-boggler by Isaac Asimov and others . |
| 26 | Such assumptions have been used as a partial justification for women 's ineligibility for social security benefits . |
| 27 | The side which had lain on the river bed was green and moss-grown and there was nothing about it except for its shape and its anomalous position in the water to show that it might have been used as a lethal weapon . |
| 28 | It has also encouraged the use of new financial control mechanisms such as external financing limits , which in Britain since 1979 have been used as a covert pay policy ( Heald and Steel 1981 : 15 ) . |
| 29 | One of these is run in a large old house in its own grounds in North London which has been used as a private Mother and Baby Home since the late 1920s . |
| 30 | In an exhaustive study the Brookings Institution identified 190 incidents between 1944 and 1979 where the armed forces of the USSR have been used as a political instrument in peacetime . |