Example sentences of "are used in the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Quantum 's QBENCH replicates the way that disk drives are used in the real world by combining the same portions of random and sequential read-and-write operations that are found in modern Operating System and Graphical User Interface ( GUI ) environments such as Windows .
2 In practice , the proprietary liquids which are used in the pressure-vacuum impregnation of timber against fungal attack also contain insecticides and effectively identical products are available through builders ' merchants and DIY outlets for brush and spray application on site .
3 So it 's not a shortage of specialists , it 's a shortage of the erm importance both L E A's and schools give to the subject and make sure that the specialisms are used in the right place .
4 The agency will ensure that resources made available by reductions in defence spending — reductions already planned by the Conservative government — are used in the first instance for rebuilding and investing in our manufacturing base .
5 One way around this particular problem would be to adapt the approach recommended by the Canadian Sentencing Commission ( 1997 ) , in which guide-lines are used in the first instance simply to indicate offences for which the presumptive sentence would ( or would normally ) involve a community sanction , and those which would ( or would normally ) involve a custodial penalty .
6 The next pair are the training straps , which are used in the early stages to accustom sailors to footstrap use .
7 Although in everyday professional speech the phrase the in-service training of teachers ( INSET ) is often used to denote formal courses operated collectively with groups of teachers , this view of INSET must be perceived as too limited to describe the many practices which are used in the professional development of teachers ( Gordon and Lawton 1978 , Becher and Maclure 1978 ) .
8 Checklists are used in the pre-start mode , for routine maintenance and for fault-finding .
9 ‘ Personality , character and commitment ’ , the DES note , are as important as the specific knowledge and skills that are used in the day-to-day tasks of teaching .
10 Both variables are listed in Appendix A and the 42 countries are named in Appendix F. The same variables are used in the statistical examples in Chapter 3 and in the example of the use of the GIMMS plotter mapping system ( Section 4.3.2 ) .
11 It should be noted , however , that if markers are used in the heterozygous state , the expected grain count is halved since the other half is expected to overlie the unmarked , and therefore unscored normal homologues .
12 These terms are used in the retail trade to describe a loss of profit .
13 If two fibres are used in the same sleeve , the price comes to 20–25p a metre .
14 Due to the way the data is stored , the dimensioning on the drawing usually creates between two and three times as many entities as are used in the original model .
15 The same sort of thing happens in the glass , paper and metal industries , where recycled products are used in the original production processing stages .
16 ( In many Latin languages , the etymological equivalents of these terms are used in the opposite sense ) .
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