Example sentences of "[conj] be used [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The unit can receive calls , transmit faxes or be used by personal computers to tap into remote data banks — all for $5.50 a minute . |
| 2 | I think animals that are used for human entertainment definitely deserve a better deal , for example , large wi wild animals that are used in circuses , we have n't got the right , as people , to say that they 're here for our entertainment . |
| 3 | It is easy to see why it is the more unusual types of artefact that are used for this type of research . |
| 4 | When known to be present , iron and manganese can be easily removed from water , and there are several processes that are used for this purpose . |
| 5 | The main anthranoid containing herbal drugs that are used as stimulant laxatives are senna , aloe , cascara , frangula , and rhubarb . |
| 6 | Such round , smooth shapes are the perfect foil to the railway sleepers that are used as informal steps down to the lowest level of all , a curved brick paved sitting area that looks back up towards the house . |
| 7 | The cements that are used in orthopaedic surgery generate heat during setting and do not have the same level of biocompatibility as bioceramics . |
| 8 | Professional ( demographic , sociological , statistical and some medical ) terms or terms that are used in everyday conversation but having specific meaning in the context of the report as well as some abbreviations are concisely defined or explained in the Glossary . |
| 9 | This work started originally in , in erm Nottingham University and in Aberdeen University and erm now we 're rather lucky in that I think we have erm one company , Oxford Instruments , that supply almost all the big magnets that are used in this work all over the world . |
| 10 | 17.52 ( i ) Pupils working towards level 7 should develop a sensitivity to the different styles of vocabulary that are used in different types of writing . |
| 11 | There 's , to be clear about it , that it 's completely confidential , that their looking only for particular words that are used in different parts of the country and in different locations . |
| 12 | Demanding higher levels of technical efficiency from domestic suppliers is directly related to the need to standardize and improve the quality of inputs that are used in later stages of manufacturing , where closer physical location to the main plant is crucial . |
| 13 | I 'd rather not er deal with them individually by name because many of them are comm , commercial products , but er there are a wide range of them as you know , that are used in commercial food production . |
| 14 | The large trucks that are used by professional carriers where the horse is sealed up in almost complete darkness and isolation , frighten horses more than two-horse floats pulled by cars or the more open trucks frequently used by professional riders . |
| 15 | Methods that are used by other organisations , which may be worth considering are direct advertising in national press , and production of a recruitment leaflet based on an issue of concern such as the CPRE Road Verges leaflet , and various Greenpeace examples . |
| 16 | Only by pushing the boundaries of moral judgment to their extremes are you going to get rid of sexism , racism , sizism and classism ( along with all the other buzz-words that are used by pompous morons to build walls around themselves so they can validify their own judgments of other people ) . |
| 17 | High-level languages such as FORTRAN ( FORmula TRANslation ) or BASIC that are used by trained programmers ; |
| 18 | The US military were already spending vast sums on making tritium for warheads and the reactors that were used for this process had been closed , pending repairs , in 1988 as a result of nervousness about reactor safety following the Chernobyl accident . |
| 19 | Since this distribution is similar to that obtained in Study 2 these 14 categories were divided into the same six categories that were used in that study . |
| 20 | Have you got any information about the efficacy of the treatments that were used in those ? |
| 21 | Figure 7.5 shows the differences in P(A) for the films that were used in this study , a comparison of this figure with Figure 7.1 suggests that although the total amount of information in a stimulus does play an important role in memory it is clearly not sufficient to explain the recognition results . |
| 22 | This again is relevant to school tasks since it is near vision that is used for close work such as reading and writing . |
| 23 | This is in clear contrast to the divergence model in Indo-European studies , and as a result of this contrast , the shape that emerges from historical language description ( from ancient times to the present day ) is not so much a pyramidal shape ( with gradual convergence at the top ) as a funnel shape ( the kind that is used for pouring liquids ) , as in figure 3.1 . |
| 24 | And there is another reason that would favour it : the language of free choice is the language that is used in everyday life by the people it purports to describe . |
| 25 | The Largo Richini , an airy square , leads to a pleasant length , ( but narrow width ) of parkland that is used by early morning paper readers on Sundays , and by students on all days . |
| 26 | But there is nothing to argue about here , as the act of quantifying is not intended to be predictive , explanatory or theoretical : it is a methodological tool that is used by those who wish to make accountable statements about the distribution of linguistic forms in real speech communities in cases where this is not evident without quantification . |
| 27 | Light : Needs very good light over a longer period than is used for other water plants Water temperature : 68°–78°F . |
| 28 | The production of stress is generally believed to depend on the speaker using more muscular energy than is used for unstressed syllables . |
| 29 | It is a formidable feat of timing , comparable to a clever trick that was used in some fighter planes during the First World War . |
| 30 | This is the one that was used in this article to illustrate the knitting of a rectangle and it is shown here in the form that it appears in many publications . |