Example sentences of "[be] used [to-vb] [conj] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The inverted commas are used to emphasize that such statements contain estimates and personal decisions that are sometimes arbitrary and refer to specific accounting periods which may not be representative of the operational situation .
2 The inverted commas are used to emphasize that such statements contain estimates and personal decisions that are sometimes arbitrary and refer to specific accounting periods which may not be representative of the operational situation .
3 As D. S. Landes has pointed out , whereas the public clock could be used to open and close markets , to signal the start and end of work and to move people around , it signalled only moments rather than the continual passage of time .
4 After almost 10 years in University history teaching I was concerned that my students seemed to have very little idea of how history actually came to be written and of what criteria might be used to decide whether one book was more worth reading than another .
5 This , and other feedback gathered throughout the pilot , will be used to guide and future development of general SVQs and Skillstart .
6 Before addressing the question of lease or buy , the NPV method can also be used to evaluate and rank alternative lease proposals .
7 Grandchildren could be used to help when small , and there were also a few instances of a grandchild moving in during adulthood .
8 This elective can be used to ensure that those data with a value below that specified by elective 4 are mapped .
9 These findings were used to see whether appropriate timing of octreotide injections with respect to meal ingestion might avert impaired gall bladder contraction .
10 If only a single character is suggested then word knowledge is used to detect and correct errors in the hypothesis .
11 De-realization is used to suggest that economic and other ‘ scientific ’ models are no more real ( nor even more accurate ) than the fictions and oracular pronouncements from which they seek to distinguish themselves .
12 It was used to argue that all members of the household should contribute to local revenue if they used local services .
13 Logistic regression analysis was used to determine whether any of the reflux variables was predictive of oesophagitis .
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