Example sentences of "[noun] used [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mosley justified the turn to fascism as the result of the increased disruptive tactics used by opponents of the New Party . |
| 2 | In the course of the 1950s , the first signs appeared that the tactics used by Franco since 1936 to stay in power — repression , appeals for unity , apocalyptic visions of Republican " chaos " , and himself as arbiter among fractious regime forces — were less effective than they had previously been . |
| 3 | One reason that so few indicators can be shown is the all too frequent changes in the formulae used for allocation of elements of the GRE . |
| 4 | ( 2 ) Modern critics of an attitude theory have often argued , not unconvincingly , that the methods of reasoning used in support of ethical views , or of trying to reach agreement on them by a fair minded exchange of views between reasonable persons , neither need be , nor commonly are , different from those used in factual matters . |
| 5 | The Host of the Unforgiven Dead , also known as the Sluagh , is the term used by people from the Scottish Highlands to describe the spirit world . |
| 6 | Church schools which have chosen to transfer to the education authority , rather than be independent , become public schools ( the term used in Scotland for maintained or state schools ) , although they can make separate arrangements for denominational instruction . |
| 7 | As a rule , a term used in contrast to " semantically " ie practising the form rather than the meaning . |
| 8 | At NASA 's Lewis Research Center in Ohio , for example , workers are trying to substitute small quantities of nickel for the cobalt used in alloys in jet engines . |
| 9 | The Oxford Connection : Were language schools used as cover for Colombian drug barons ? |
| 10 | Small personal computers used in conjunction with page printing systems such as laser printers offer the businessman a chance to do all his production in-house rather than contracting out for typesetting , design and so on . |
| 11 | Conversely , the images used on coins of the Anglo-Saxon kings — for example , Edward the Confessor — are greatly varied and inconsistent ( unbearded and bearded ) . |
| 12 | The move is a pre-emptive one by EC fisheries ministers to stop EC fleets adopting a practice used by others in the central and eastern Pacific , where dolphins are sought by fishermen because tuna are known to swim beneath them . |
| 13 | Its skull — two metres long — was well developed , with three strong pointed horns useful for defence and for stripping some of the remaining shorter fronds , resembling the cycads used in Florida as indoor pot-plants . |
| 14 | He arranged the pictures used in advertising into some fifty categories and found that whilst a representation of men and women embracing was most common there were no representatives at all of people at work . |
| 15 | He says that this was a cell used for patients in the early days of the hospital . |
| 16 | Since a GIS involves the storage , and manipulation of spatial data as well as the use of a graphical display system ( 2 or 3 dimensional data display ) it is feasible that the impression conveyed by the same data used in conjunction with a different display system might be distorted and might not permit future users to comprehend the meaning that it originally communicated . |
| 17 | The data employed are the published national accounts of the UK , supplemented by the national accounts statistics of the other member countries of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development , and by the data used in studies of local government expenditure in the US . |
| 18 | leadership and management styles used by heads to be improved ; |
| 19 | During the nineteenth century the majority of the cattle of northern France were dairy breeds , whereas in central and southern areas they were draught animals used for work on smallholdings . |
| 20 | The government 's Advisory Committee on Novel Foods and Processes has ruled that the carcasses of animals used in experiments on genetic engineering are fit for human consumption , and can be sold for butchering . |
| 21 | Substitute numbers in a simple formula expressed in words and evaluate the answer ; e.g. , gross wage wage per hour x number of hours worked ; total cost number of units used x cost per unit + standing charge . |
| 22 | Context co-citation is used to map specialisms by clustering words used in titles of text . |
| 23 | As a rough estimate of the amount of dreaming that had been going on , they counted the number of words used by subjects in describing their dream . |
| 24 | We found that differences in the methods used for analyses of cell kinetics are major causes of differences in results on whether the proliferative compartment is normal . |
| 25 | Minerva should take the scientific methods used in papers into consideration . |
| 26 | The methods used in determination of size vary widely from calipers on the coarsest fragments , through sieving and techniques dependent upon settling velocity , to those detecting changes in electrical resistance as particles are passed through small electrolyte-filled orifices . |
| 27 | The report says that the methods used by scientists at the Department of the Environment to calculate future acid rain damage are " flawed " . |
| 28 | The research aims to begin exploring this neglected issue , building on whilst adapting methods used by researchers in the US . |
| 29 | A recent survey of selection methods used by companies in both Britain and France for management selection , demonstrated that although the number of British companies using psychological tests had increased since an earlier survey carried out in 1984 ( Robertson and Makin , 1986 ) most organisations still relied on the traditional selection methods of the application form , interview and letters of reference ( Shackleton and Newell , 1991 ) . |
| 30 | Throughout South Somerset is the warm honey colour of the Hamstone used in generations of buildings in picturesque towns and villages as well as the grand and stately homes of the aristocracy . |