Example sentences of "[be] used to determine the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 However , it has been pointed out by Dr. B. Leadbeater , that great care must be taken before these formulae are used to determine the efficiency of dilution for abatement of odour nuisance , for in order to achieve concentrations below the threshold detection levels some odorants would need diluting by a factor in order of 6,000 , so unless very high chimneys are contemplated this method only provides a limited answer .
2 Chimeras derived from embryonal stem cells chimeras have been used to determine the cell autonomy of an early developmental mutation , Brachury ( T ) .
3 The cycle can be used to determine the lattice enthalpy of sodium chloride .
4 Once a forecast for the likely total available market has been prepared , company sales for the forecast period may then be calculated from either : * the expected market share , which should result from the various selling and marketing activities to be implemented during the period ; or * the target market share , which will be used to determine the level of activity of the sales and marketing function , and take into account the impact of competitors in the marketplace .
5 Essentially , it urges development of national funding and quality standards which would be used to determine the level of compensation awarded to hospitals for services .
6 It would , of course , be useful to have a number of general theorems that could be used to determine the singularity structure of particular classes of solutions .
7 This morphogen concentration gradient can thus be used to determine the position of the cells .
8 Therefore given the sentence ‘ John found the dog ’ , a parse may be used to determine the subject and object of the verb and thereby create a semantic representation of who found what .
9 Next , the dice could be used to determine the direction of flow from the source cell .
10 The money will also be used to determine the rate and extent of recovery of lakes and rivers and their associated fauna from acid rain damage , and its role in causing forest decline .
11 This fact can be used to determine the identity of unknown organic compounds by the method of mixed melting points .
12 The General Household Survey for 1980 , a nationally representative annual Government survey , is being used to determine the extent to which employed women are segregated into particular occupations .
13 Odds ratios were used to determine the magnitude of the association between two dichotomous variables .
14 Ultra-violet examinations were used to determine the thickness of varnish and the restoration work executed on the top of the varnish .
15 This value is used to determine the order in which the processor is allocated to each machine .
16 It has a token weapon skill of 3 which is used to determine the attacker 's basic chance of scoring a hit in the normal manner .
17 This type of calorimeter is used to determine the energy changes that accompany chemical reactions such as combustion .
18 The state legislature decided the overall budget and this was used to determine the cut-off point , below which treatments ranked low priority would not be funded .
19 Ultrasound scanning was used to determine the stone size and number ; gall bladder position , accessibility , wall thickness and function ; and appearance of the bile duct .
20 A neutral red dye assay was used to determine the effect of Ca 2+ -calmodulin on the cGMP-dependent influx rate of different cations into ROS membrane vesicles .
21 The classification of the Centers for Disease Control was used to determine the disease stage of each patient : 16 patients were at stage II , 11 at stage III , 13 at stage IVa , 82 at stage IVcl , 26 stage IVc2 , 26 at stage IVd , and 12 at stage IVc1/IVd .
22 A control of no enzyme was used to determine the background level of tritium present in each sample , and this value was deducted from the total count obtained .
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