Example sentences of "[noun] be used [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nearly four million animals were used each year for experiments , eighty per cent of which were rodents , which gave the activists a problem as rats do n't have good PR potential . |
| 2 | While FIFO corresponds most closely to the way in which firms actually use their inventories ( i.e. the oldest stock is used first ) and corresponds to the actual cost paid for inventories , it ignores the fact that to replace the inventories now costs a great deal more . |
| 3 | Notice in ( b ) pink was used first and then yellow and finally pale viridian . |
| 4 | When other markers of electrical instability are used such as late potentials or programmed ventricular stimulation this relationship still holds . |
| 5 | At the other end of the scale , there are industries where excessive cold is used such as refrigeration in the fishing industry , and cold storage rooms in the catering business . |
| 6 | Blatant attempts at suggesting status and covering up inadequacies are used all the time in the business world — to show connections and influence , establish a good track record or to create a mystique about something . |
| 7 | The car did not normally carry passengers , but its seats were used that season by a small orchestra which played selections from ‘ The Gondoliers ’ as it made its romantic way along the Promenade . |
| 8 | Front organisations were used such as European Movement , United Europe Association , Campaign for Europe , Trade Union Committee for Europe , and European Educational Research Trust . |
| 9 | For the first four years of the new school 's existence the buildings were used much as they had been prior to amalgamation , but in 1974 organisation was rationalised to provide departmental areas with teaching rooms and adjacent resource bases . |
| 10 | Air transport is used much less in the rest of the United Kingdom than in the South East . |
| 11 | Acid deposition is not a new problem : for example , the term ‘ acid rain' was used first by Robert Angus Smith in 1872 to describe the polluted air of Manchester , England , which damaged vegetation , bleached the colours of fabrics and corroded metallic surfaces . |
| 12 | Comment : Indirect questions are used all the time by people who need their status boosting through being given buckets of approval , or who are looking for a reason for punishing other people should they not fall in with the anticipated scenario . |
| 13 | 62.5 million gallons of water are used each day in Lothian |
| 14 | Conventional symbols are used such that OA = a and OF = ae . |
| 15 | ‘ Indirect observation ’ often refers to reshelving surveys , involving counts of items left by users on reading tables — on the assumption that these items were used in-house . |
| 16 | The method was used first by Kröner ( 1958 ) for the elastic moduli of cubic polycrystals and has been applied to composite materials by Hill , Walpole and many others [ see , for example , Laws & McLaughlin ( 1978 ) for references ] . |
| 17 | Additionally , if mammalian tissues are used intact they can exhibit anisotropic solute diffusion — ie different in different directions . |
| 18 | If legislative controls are used developing sophisticated clinical practice guidelines for only those procedures with high cost and high variability , and requiring those guidelines to apply to all providers and payers , would be a healthy start . |
| 19 | Pictures and illustrations were used big , and the wide column layout packed a lot of words on the page . |
| 20 | However , double standards were used ind attacks on the ‘ alien menace ’ in the fascist press used many anti-semitic stereotypes long before it was accepted as an official weapon ; for instance in Blackshirt in October 1933 those Jews who attacked fascism were likened to a cancer in the body politic . |
| 21 | Which is very light so to compensate for this a ply line is used this is a rubber line which is quite thick and the rod is flicked backwards and forwards to let line out . |
| 22 | Drugs are used all the time in contemporary society . |
| 23 | A very simple independent clause structure is used first : " She swept the room " . |
| 24 | When setting up a rack system , the connections are nearly always made from the back , and if a wireless system is used this is fed into the preamp 's rear input , although the front panel input invariably overrides this should you ever require the use of a lead . |
| 25 | These are switchable between series and parallel modes , and a master volume/pickup pan system is used this time , again with ±21dB of boost or cut . |
| 26 | Note that a ten-fold higher amount of Dcm/Cys177Ser was used relative to Dcm. [ cpm ] : counts per minute . |
| 27 | For the next sequence , Crawford and the Suzuki had to jump into a pond ; a three-foot ramp was used this time . |
| 28 | This measure was used twelve times by Raymond Barre ( 1978 to 1981 ) ; ten times under Mauroy and Fabius ( 1981 to 1966 ) ; seven times in 1986 alone ( Chirac ) . |
| 29 | Never lets seed be used that 's more than two years out of Scotland . ’ |
| 30 | Does not the Minister agree that it will be a travesty if the same formula is used this year and my constituents are therefore robbed of much more money that is needed for health in the area ? |