Example sentences of "is used in a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The implication ( 33 ) 5 , that the day of speaking is other than Wednesday or Thursday , is also due to deixis ( explained in Chapter z ) , for the word Thursday in utterance ( iii ) is used in a deictic way that invokes pragmatic parameters ( there are other usages that do not , e.g. Pay day is Thursday ) . |
| 2 | possess any secret official code word , or password , or sketch , plan , model , article , note , document or information which relates to or is used in a prohibited place or anything in such a place , or which has been made or obtained in contravention of this Act , or which has been entrusted in confidence to him by any person holding office under Her Majesty or which he has obtained or to which he has had access owing to his position as a person who is or has been employed under a person who holds or has held such an office or contract — [ and who ] ( a ) communicates the code word , pass word , sketch , plan , model , article , note , document , or information to any person other than a person to whom he is authorised to communicate it , or a person to whom it is in the interest of the State his duty to communicate it , or ( aa ) uses the information in his possession for the benefit of any foreign power or in any other manner prejudicial to the safety or interests of the State , or ( b ) retains the sketch , plan , model , article , note , or document in his possession or control when he has no right to retain it or when it is contrary to his duty to retain it , or fails to comply with all directions issued by lawful authority with regard to the return or disposal thereof , or … |
| 3 | It is used in a narrow sense in the context of the Parliament Act procedure as requiring certification by the Speaker with the consequence that the delaying power of the House of Lords is restricted to one month . |
| 4 | Arbitration is used in a wide range of disputes , and procedures can be tailored to suit the occasion , although practitioners are understandably cautious , given the serious consequences of an allegation of misconduct . |
| 5 | " Decompilation " is used in a wide sense and defined in section 50B as converting a copy of a computer program expressed in a low-level language into a version expressed in a higher-level language and extends to copying incidental to such conversion . |
| 6 | Amiodarone is an iodinated benzofurane derivative which is used in a wide variety of cardiac arrythmias resistant to other treatments . |
| 7 | How could it be of ethical significance that the word ‘ good ’ , considered just as a sound , is used in a certain way ? |
| 8 | The word ‘ depression ’ is used in a non-clinical sense , and maybe sadness is a better way of describing what is going on . |
| 9 | Sometimes the term has been applied to the linguistic habits of a particular writer ( " the style of Dickens , of Proust " , etc ) ; at other times it has been applied to the way language is used in a particular genre , period , school of writing , or some combination of these : " epistolary style " , " early eighteenth-century style " , " euphuistic style " , " the style of Victorian novels " , etc . |
| 10 | Plutonium is not found naturally on earth , but it is produced whenever uranium is used in a nuclear reactor . |
| 11 | If the right approach is used in a positive way , success will follow . |
| 12 | However , " knowledge " is used in a special way and a person can still be deemed to have the requisite knowledge if it would be obvious to a reasonable man that a patent was being infringed . |
| 13 | What matters is how the screen is used in a given application . |
| 14 | In its most general interpretation , the word STYLE has a fairly uncontroversial meaning : it refers to the way in which language is used in a given context , by a given person , for a given purpose , and so on . |
| 15 | Consider , for example , the following beginning to an essay entitled " Foregrounding in King Lear " : In its most general interpretation , the word " style " has a fairly uncontroversial meaning : it refers to the way in which language is used in a given context , by a particular person , for a certain purpose . |
| 16 | Works on areal geology , mineralogy , and the applied earth sciences may be valuable in their own way , but the information they contain is used in a different way , and by different readers , from that in geophysics . |
| 17 | In almost each case , this single word is used in a different context . |