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

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1 At present , admittedly , triticale is mostly used for animal feed .
2 Barley straw is soft and palatable , and is widely used as bulk feed for beef cattle .
3 Other bit image formats are GIF , which uses LZW compression and is widely used for clip art ; PIC , which is used by the Halo screen art programme ; and CUT , which uses the enhanced small disk drive RLL compression algorithm .
4 Cassava , sugar cane , fruit crops , coffee and cotton are also grown and irrigation in the Venezuelan region is widely used for grain production .
5 Although alcohol is widely used for motor fuel nobody has yet extensively developed liquid alcohol as an alternative source of cooking fuel .
6 C.I.P.C. is widely used for sprout inhibition .
7 This was developed by the Aldus Corporation and Microsoft particularly for images obtaining from scanning devices , and is widely used in desk top publishing .
8 The term ‘ high-bay ’ is widely used in warehousing parlance to describe the mechanised placement and storage of unit-loads in racking structures .
9 Quota sampling is widely used in market research as it is cost-effective .
10 Noise reduction on the new range is most appreciated during hammer action into brickwork or concrete
11 The instructor 's rating in terms of party size is presumably linked to school party abseiling expeditions where the group may be merely one class , or a whole year group for instance .
12 Furthermore , because H pylori infection is rarely acquired in adult life , reinfection would not be expected in adult patients whose infection is successfully eradicated .
13 The desire is rarely reflected in classroom practice .
14 John Ferguson , the Canberra Raiders wing who lines up against Widnes tonight in the Foster 's World Club Challenge , is little known outside rugby league circles , but within the game he commands a whispered respect his more famous namesakes might envy .
15 Spence ( 1981 ) argues that the theory is powerfully related to school life , seeing classroom behaviour as narrowly prescribed and highly institutionalised as a result of both direct and indirect control , the latter being perhaps more significant :
16 Empowerment enthusiasts say it is all to do with company culture and ensuring that employees are all fully conversant with the corporate goals and mission .
17 The depth of the lysochine is basically controlled by water chemistry .. the P H and the concentration of carbonate in the water .
18 Ministerial power is somewhat counterbalanced by railway management 's control of internal information and by its own political resources .
19 Nor are all her qualities earnest ones ; the ‘ game-playing ’ element in the description is greatly needed in home life .
20 For hygiene reasons , recycled material is only used in food packaging if the contents are plastic wrapped or the cardboard has a protective lining .
21 Access into these compartments is only provided for maintenance work and control of the extinguishing system should be provided externally in addition to the provision of internal automatic devices designed to operate the system .
22 Rising damp is only found at ground level , petering out and fading some three or four feet ( about a metre ) up the walls .
23 Not everything that is naturally occurring in sea water is necessary or beneficial to marine life .
24 The underlying epidemiology is unknown , but is perhaps associated with pasture contamination by that proportion of ingested larvae which did not undergo hypobiosis in early summer .
25 Nitrification is higher under slash-and-burn regimes than under primary forest in southwest Venezuela and is apparently regulated by ammonium activity .
26 The Open Software Foundation , based in Cambridge , Massachusetts is apparently bowing to user pressure over its pricing for the Distributed Computing Environment , and will announce significant price reductions for one-time Distributed Computing licences , distribution rights and royalty fees at UniForum on March 17 .
27 The extent of nectar production is apparently associated with pollinator size and there is variation in its sugar content and dilution .
28 On the desirability or otherwise of a comprehensive list of what should be done at each level , the best way to proceed is for there to be a presumption , effectively , that matters are best dealt with at national level unless it can be shown that that is better done at Community level .
29 It is n't clear from the evaluation that the money is better spent on air ambulance services than it is on improving intensive care facilities . ’
30 The Pittsburgh group incorporated a radioactive ‘ label ’ into the coat proteins of vesicular stomatitis virus ( a virus that causes a mild disease in livestock and is much used in interferon research ) .
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