Example sentences of "[noun] be used [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 One way around this particular problem would be to adapt the approach recommended by the Canadian Sentencing Commission ( 1997 ) , in which guide-lines are used in the first instance simply to indicate offences for which the presumptive sentence would ( or would normally ) involve a community sanction , and those which would ( or would normally ) involve a custodial penalty .
2 Billing machines and the tabular ledger are used in the preparation of accounts and the work must always be up to the minute , as it should be possible to produce a guest 's bill immediately on request .
3 The top copy is sent to the client ; other copies are used in the reservation office , for the allocating of rooms , charting the reservation , compiling the arrivals and departures lists and alphabetical guest list and providing information for other departments .
4 Only marks gained on the Course are used in the calculation of honours .
5 If the results of assessment are used in the ways intended and if the evidence of research and HMI findings of good practice are heeded , these children should in fact benefit , because their problems with the English language will have been identified and appropriate action can be taken to help at an early stage .
6 Find out how the patterns are used in the Braille Alphabet .
7 Protein-based products are used for the maintenance and reconstruction of the inner and outer layers of the hair and are particularly beneficial on chemically damaged hair .
8 The same sort of thing happens in the glass , paper and metal industries , where recycled products are used in the original production processing stages .
9 These times are used by the sufferer to prove to self and others that he or she has no problem with addictive disease but is in full control , provided that outside circumstances do not cause further upset .
10 The alcoves on either side are used for the hanging space , and the reduced space in front of the chimneybreast for shelving , either exposed or concealed behind the wardrobe doors .
11 Many of these methods are used throughout the practice of public relations .
12 The processes of dilution and succussion are specific to homoeopathy and are not used in the preparation of any other forms of medicine , although somewhat similar methods are used by the anthroposophical people in the preparation of the Weleda range of remedies and products .
13 But er , frequently the animals are used for the research and there 's no pain involved at that time and they are killed humanly before the research actually takes place .
14 In the famous scene where Piggy 's spectacles are used for the rediscovery of fire , William Golding got his optics wrong .
15 So , providing you say yes there will be occasions when the machine can take over some sort of part of the teacher 's role , then fair enough , yes , but I think one of the interesting ways in which computers are used at the present time , particularly again in the primary school , is as orchestrators of group work .
16 The study reviews the extent to which computers are used in the industry and the institutional responses to the need for changes in technician training .
17 It places a great responsibility upon us to ensure that the children of Sunderland are given the very best possible value-for-money meals , while also ensuring that public funds are used to the best effect .
18 Some examples of these in English are : Learning problems occur when function words are used in the target language but not in your own language .
19 The more natural meaning seems to me to be , ‘ at starting in the profession , ’ for it will be observed that these words are used by the testator in reciting a prior promise made when the testator had not heard of the proposed marriage with Ellen Nicholl , or , so far as appears , heard of any proposed marriage .
20 Both variables are listed in Appendix A and the 42 countries are named in Appendix F. The same variables are used in the statistical examples in Chapter 3 and in the example of the use of the GIMMS plotter mapping system ( Section 4.3.2 ) .
21 Vitamin C powder , chalk and glucose are used by the nicer manufacturers ; others add bleach , brick dust or oven cleaner .
22 Hillman has graphically shown what will result when these data are used as the basis for planning , as in the case of recent DoE advice to local authorities on planning for shopping provision .
23 If couples learn and adopt means of spacing at adequate intervals , if breastfeeding is prolonged and if appropriate contraceptives are used during the period of lactation ( where abstinence is not practised ) , the result will not only be improved health and mortality conditions but also a concomitant spread of knowledge as to means of terminating childbearing .
24 So it 's not a shortage of specialists , it 's a shortage of the erm importance both L E A's and schools give to the subject and make sure that the specialisms are used in the right place .
25 In section 265 , for example , terms such as ‘ domiciled , ’ ‘ personally present , ’ ‘ ordinarily resident , ’ have had attributed to them , both in the context of bankruptcy and in that of civil procedure generally , a wealth of refined construction which it is difficult to suppose Parliament did not intend equally to apply when those words were used in the Act of 1986 .
26 Isolated vesicles were used in the first direct demonstration of Na + /H + exchange , by Murer in rabbit jejunum .
27 I once taught a student who claimed to believe in Satan but thought that demons were used by the biblical writers as a means of explaining the sources of diseases and mental illnesses that were not understood in modern medical terms .
28 Without the help of the S.D.S. the project seems doomed as the Region are unwilling to help and few of the local people would consent to council funds being used for the setting up of a permanent site or the renting of a plot of land as a short-term site until a permanent site can be found away from the town .
29 Have you heard any of these words being used for the side of things by the , the tinkers ?
30 He decided instead to follow Jordan through the Gabes Gap and mount an attack in the area around Sousse , a harbour being used by the Germans to ship in supplies .
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