Example sentences of "[be] use [verb] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Personal evaluations occur bi-annually and are used to assess both changes in the basic wage and individual bonus payments .
2 All six bits are used to represent most symbols in the character set , but it can be seen from Figure 2.19 that the digits 0 to 9 are represented by the four numeric digits , with the zone bits set to " 00 " .
3 The question of why markets are used to coordinate some activities while others are coordinated within firms , often hierarchically , has now become of central interest in much of the work on the economics of firms and public sector agencies .
4 The differences between the Spanish and British cases are used to highlight these processes .
5 Results of end-of-year tests in mathematics , English , science and the first foreign language are used to reallocate some pupils to a new stream at the beginning of the new school year .
6 When additions are expected , two techniques are used to store those additions so that they are available for both sequential and direct access .
7 Purse nets are used to cover all holes leading to and from a warren system .
8 A wide variety of measures are used to achieve these aims .
9 It is free of chlorofluorocarbon gases which have been used to cool most fridges for decades .
10 The gases have been used to cool most types of fridges for decades but are now headed for a world-wide ban in 1996 after being blamed for causing holes in the ozone layer , which shields the earth from the sun 's harmful ultraviolet rays .
11 The model has also been used to explain some aspects of sentence production in normals , such as slips of the tongue and hesitations : for more on this , see Garrett ( 1982 ) .
12 Methods have been used to overcome these problems to some degree .
13 At the time of writing , this section had not been used to exclude any children with learning difficulties or disabilities .
14 She also found that a lot of her time which could have been used to produce more goods was being taken up selling goods , collecting debts and generally doing administrative work .
15 Impartiality is a concept which has been used to convey many things .
16 Increasingly sophisticated techniques have been used to solve these problems .
17 It will be necessary to decide on the amount of resource to be invested in management development , and what mechanism should be used to allocate these resources .
18 In Chapter 3 , we saw that , for general LPs , a two-phase method , maximising in Phase I , could be used to tackle such problems .
19 Selected policy issues will be used to explore these aspects of central-local relations , using documentary study and structured interviews .
20 Techniques such as ‘ brain storming ’ and ‘ lateral thinking ’ can be used to generate such alternatives ( see Mullins , 1989 , Ch. 14 ) .
21 However , the trend is growing for expert determination to be used to resolve all aspects of a dispute arising under a contract , and not just one category of technical aspects .
22 In the case of international law what the institutions of positive law have to offer is a means for settling dangerous disputes and limiting the destructive powers which could be used to resolve those disputes in an unacceptable manner .
23 All available communication channels should be used to promote these techniques .
24 Blue is a good mixer and can be used to complement most colours
25 They can not easily be used to describe those events outside of us , like our social circumstances or what psychiatrists call ‘ life events ’ , that have such a critical impact on our emotions .
26 In addition to explaining the meaning of words and their usages , the native language may be used to explain such things as grammar rules , the production of sounds , differences in the structure of the two languages and the situations about which the language is to be used .
27 In its simplest form , LIFESPAN 's process modelling may be used to log all entries of subscribing modules into LIFESPAN via mail or a log file .
28 A filler panel can also be used to bridge any gaps between the end wall and the frame .
29 For this purpose a test may be used to discriminate those pupils who have attained a higher level from those at a lower level .
30 Specific examples related to patients will be used to illustrate these principles .
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