Example sentences of "it [be] use in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Working on the same principle as a jigsaw , but with the reciprocating blade in line with the saw body , it 's used in the same position as a hand saw , but held with both hands . |
| 2 | The concept of referential rigidity in the sense in which it is used in the above theory , on the other hand , goes beyond this in that it already presupposes the idea of " per se " existence . |
| 3 | This is the way it is used in the following example , but the pronunciation of the word is exactly as in LE : You know how white people stay . |
| 4 | Because it is used in the passive , ‘ said ’ in the Japanese text is understood to mean something like ‘ criticized ’ , and this meaning is correctly rendered in the English translation . |
| 5 | For reasons such as this it is important to ensure that the ‘ final edition ’ of the interview schedule has been adequately gone over and tried out before it is used in the full-scale field survey . |
| 6 | It is used in the structural engineering of chromosomes . |
| 7 | Hirtle 1975 : 37 for examples with realize , agree and understand ) , its meaning places it in the unique position of becoming the equivalent of a verb of perception when it is used in the operative sense . |
| 8 | Leonardo da Vinci 's students painted the copy of the the Last Supper under their master 's direction , and it was used in the recent restoration of the original wall painting . |
| 9 | Nevertheless it was used in the early aeroplanes and an attempt was made to protect it by binding the joints with varnished tape which was never very effectual . |
| 10 | It was used in the Roman Empire until early in the thirteenth century , and in most of Western Europe until the twelfth . |
| 11 | Moreover , it was used in the Hung Mao manner-in that curiously inverted way of theirs , where the family name was last and not first . |
| 12 | Although the English savant Roger Bacon deciphered the composition of gunpowder in the thirteenth century , it was used in the twelfth by the Moors in wars in Spain and so was probably known to the troops of Barbarossa , perhaps as a terrible Moorish secret weapon . |