Example sentences of "be used [prep] the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | supervision and they 're used until the head of the femur right , the head of the femur is fixed back into the socket joint and the muscles and ligaments have tightened up so that they hold the bone in place and treatment can go on until they 're about a year the consequences of not treating this condition are quite severe , the child will grow up with a very odd gait . |
| 2 | These are things which one earns , rather like spurs , and are used for the purpose of encouraging and sustaining the motivation of pupils . |
| 3 | Gestures are used for the chorus of the hymn as at a SPRED session . |
| 4 | In the famous scene where Piggy 's spectacles are used for the rediscovery of fire , William Golding got his optics wrong . |
| 5 | Conventional armaments are used for the defence of a country , or small , supported offences on countries . |
| 6 | Bulk minerals are needed in substantial amounts as they are used for the formation of the skeleton . |
| 7 | Whatever the method chosen , these quantitative techniques are used for the construction of specific sales and market forecasts , whether it be at the level of the sales territory , market segment , national or even international market . |
| 8 | Whatever the method chosen , these techniques are used for the construction of specific sales and market forecasts , whether it be at the level of the sales territory , market segment ( see later chapter ) , national or even international market . |
| 9 | Hoes are used for the control of weeds between the rows of root crops . |
| 10 | As well as being a legal requirement , it is also in the registered owner 's interests to ensure that the information held on the UK Register by the CAA is accurate , as the addresses held on their computer database are used for the distribution of Emergency Airworthiness Directives and other safety-related material . |
| 11 | If couples learn and adopt means of spacing at adequate intervals , if breastfeeding is prolonged and if appropriate contraceptives are used during the period of lactation ( where abstinence is not practised ) , the result will not only be improved health and mortality conditions but also a concomitant spread of knowledge as to means of terminating childbearing . |
| 12 | The picture changes dramatically , however , if adults rather than households are used as the basis of the calculation . |
| 13 | Chickpeas are used as the basis of many southern Mediterranean and Middle Eastern dishes , including hummus and couscous . |
| 14 | Where they are used as the basis of inter-country comparisons , which is by far the most common use that is made of them , they predispose the results of such comparisons to certain conclusions which are usually prejudiced by unspoken theory-laden assumptions . |
| 15 | These same islands — plus Jersey , Turks and Caicos and the British Virgin Islands — are used as the domicile of so-called exempt or international business companies . |
| 16 | Bintje and Wilja are used at the beginning of the season but during the maincrop season Record is preferred . |
| 17 | Kilns at the Maltings are used at the end of the malting process to dry the green malt gently with warm air which results in the high quality malted barley dispatched by to breweries and distilleries world-wide . |
| 18 | Hospital administrators at South Cleveland and Newcastle have also been told they will receive linear accelerators which are used in the treatment of cancer . |
| 19 | Carriers of this type are used in the building of the FIAT Strada/Ritmo cars and will be familiar to those who watch British television commercials . |
| 20 | Billing machines and the tabular ledger are used in the preparation of accounts and the work must always be up to the minute , as it should be possible to produce a guest 's bill immediately on request . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | To begin with , one can discern in this thinking some confusion between what is authoritative and what is authoritarian , and to suppose that because some preconceptions are used in the exercise of power , all preconceptions , no matter how conceived , and no matter how prudently used , are to be rejected out of hand . |
| 23 | If , as I have argued in the previous section , moral or ethical theories do not provide formulae that replace the need for intuitions , but , on the contrary , are used in the service of new ones , it is these intuitions that we must focus on . |
| 24 | I , I 'm not really interested how many ounces of tying wire are used in the base of er , a thing , but I , they , they do have another one which groups some of these together and er will give me labour plant materials , and it 's surprising how many contractors have this same breakdown er , from er , contractors might have materials and temporary materials er er , sub-contract erm what else are we likely to have ? |
| 25 | If the grains , soy beans and fishmeal , which are used in the feeding of food animals in the developed world , were consumed directly by human beings then there would be something like a ninefold gain in the nutritional spin-off . |
| 26 | All these characters are used in the identification of fossil species , but of course the colour patterns that may be characteristic of living species are not available in the great majority of fossils . |
| 27 | However , none of the pigments is question are used in the manufacture of Rexel Derwent products , pastels included , and because of this it has not been necessary to issue warnings with Derwent products . |
| 28 | However , none of the pigments is question are used in the manufacture of Rexel Derwent products , pastels included , and because of this it has not been necessary to issue warnings with Derwent products . |
| 29 | 100% cotton jersey and terry are used in the manufacture of the shirts and shorts while the tracksuits come in polyester/cotton . |
| 30 | These monkeys are used in the manufacture of household articles and headdresses by ail the tribes in whose domain they are found . |