Example sentences of "[be] use [verb] [conj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead , they are likely to use the ‘ just-in-time ’ ( JIT ) system where complex market relations with component subcontractors are used to ensure that supplies arrive on the premises where they are needed at the appropriate time . |
| 2 | Although concerned initially with resource allocation effects , the concepts of trade creation and trade diversion have been used to analyse whether shifts in trading patterns lead to benefits or costs in terms of gains and losses of consumer and producer surpluses . |
| 3 | Eye movement studies have also been used to show that humans employ syntactic information when reading . |
| 4 | They strongly denied that changes would be used to ensure that women 's organisations were union-dominated . |
| 5 | Thus , measurement of carbamylated haemoglobin can be used to ensure that patients with a potentially reversible element to their renal failure are referred without delay to a specialist centre for further investigation and treatment . |
| 6 | — it could be used to check whether students are already familiar with the language and can use it confidently , to help the teacher diagnose problems ; |
| 7 | In this study these agents were used to investigate whether granulocytes and mononuclear cells ( collectively termed leucocytes in this paper ) relax distal colonic circular smooth muscle by the release of NO . |
| 8 | Bigger and bigger telescopes were used to investigate whether nebulae were star-clusters or stars in the making ; this was something the spectroscope ultimately answered , because some nebulae gave bright-line spectra characteristic of hot gas rather than of the Sun or a star . |
| 9 | The linguistic transformation known as object deletion is used to ensure that instances of police aggression are rendered more palatable . |
| 10 | This information was used to decide whether children had a severe waking problem initially . |