Example sentences of "is used " in BNC.
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| 1 | which is used mainly f or political prisoners and others held in administrative detention . |
| 2 | REVOLUTION , literature and love , and the roads and side-roads which join them together , are concerns which join together the Czech writers Milan Kundera and Ivan Klima , whose name is used by Kundera for the uxorious philanderer of his novel The Farewell Party . |
| 3 | vocalisation , a point which is stressed in Cicely Berry 's standard book , The Voice and the Actor , which is used as a basic text in drama schools . |
| 4 | The lifeless beer is pumped full of carbon dioxide gas , and further gas is used to force the beer to the bar . |
| 5 | When fermentation starts to slow down , a hard spile is used to control the escape of the gas . |
| 6 | Although no extraneous gas is used , CAMRA also frowns on the breather as interfering with the natural process of maturing and serving cask beer . |
| 7 | ‘ It must also be noted that the computer systems generate information and it is how this information is used that influences the returns on the total package . |
| 8 | The slip is used just to get rid of the excess height so that less than full airbrake is required for the rest of the approach . |
| 9 | No birth control method will work unless it is used regularly — the one time you take a chance could be the time pregnancy occurs ! |
| 10 | The effect of any drug depends on the drug itself , how it is used and the person using it . |
| 11 | 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 … |
| 12 | The detective has therefore moved away from the centrally important activity of seizing the villains into a manipulated world where the paper exercise of statistical detections is used to assuage politicians , the media , and a public obsessed with the moral panic of increasing crime rates . |
| 13 | Your leading hand is used to perform a reverse punch , but it does n't travel as far as a refereeing panel would like . |
| 14 | When it is used in competition a score nearly always follows . |
| 15 | The word is used by him in a somewhat extenuated sense ; not the classical definition of a sacred narrative-cum-worldview of Levi-Strauss and the anthropologists , but the more ordinary sense of metaphor , image or symbol , ‘ rites ’ even , and especially ‘ mythologies within mythology ’ as Milton Wilson perceived . |
| 16 | At first sight this might not seem to be a serious problem ; one thing stands for others if it is used or taken as representing them . |
| 17 | The phrase ‘ the holism of the mental ’ is used in a number of ways ; but I hope the reader now understands what I intend by it . |
| 18 | Here is one of the standard procedures that is used to test whether a child has an adult-like appreciation of false belief . |
| 19 | Where cognitive neuropsychology has had its greatest success is in areas where a detailed model of cognitive function is used to explain the pattern of performance produced by individual patients . |
| 20 | ( Up to 80% of the iron in the body is used daily in this way , with approximately 20% being stored mainly in the liver and the bone marrow . ) |
| 21 | One of the best forms of supplement is haemoglobin iron which is derived from beef blood and is completely natural ( virtually 100% of it is used by the body compared to very low utilisation by the body of synthetic iron-ferrous salts ) . |
| 22 | A 46cm ( 18in ) centre-loaded bar is used in this exercise . |
| 23 | the exhaust air is not used to cool the motor ; a separate stream of air is used for this . |
| 24 | Whichever oil is used the method of application and polishing is the same . |
| 25 | The information collected is used to compile the ‘ community charge register ’ — a list of people liable to pay the community charge . |
| 26 | ‘ However this will not be the case if you no longer live in the property where you previously paid rates because it is the 1989–90 rates of the property where you now live which is used to calculate any reduction . |
| 27 | Whichever style is used in plotless ballets the choreographer should submit to the structure of the music , particularly if the score develops according to the classical techniques of composition . |
| 28 | Narrative dance is used in the conversations between the Miller , his Wife and their canary , and between the Wife and the Corregidor , which are based on flamenco music . |
| 29 | A Character Ballet is one in which classical technique is discarded except where it is used to depict particular and usually fantastic characters as for the dolls in Petrushka and La Boutique Fantasque . |
| 30 | Instead , a particular style of dance is used through which the performers play strongly defined characters who express not only social status in a particular community but also moods , emotions and actions , which are alien to the calm spaciousness of classical dance . |