Example sentences of "[be] used [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Some languages also have different forms of plural pronouns which are used to express different levels of familiarity or deference in interaction with several addressees . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | The Hochland colours of red and green are shown here in conjunction with a black plume — the colours of plumes and ribbons are used to indicate individual regiments . |
| 34 | While test animals are used to observe toxic reactions , the group of farm workers in this project helped to demonstrate the absence of a reaction to unintentional exposure . |
| 35 | Judges are used to head permanent bodies concerned with national security . |
| 36 | Arabic numerals are used to denote further divisions , in an integral manner , running from 1 to 9999 , as necessary . |
| 37 | These symbols are used to denote particular aspects of the hotel 's operation which are considered significantly above the standard applied by the star classification granted , but not necessarily above that expected from a hotel in a higher classification . |
| 38 | When additions are expected , two techniques are used to store those additions so that they are available for both sequential and direct access . |
| 39 | The pragmatics of all these statements — the ways they are used to produce certain effects on the people to whom they are addressed — are thus tied to their propaganda value for particular campaigns or positions , or to their instrumental value in furthering the personal or political objectives of particular individuals or groups . |
| 40 | Taiwan is the world 's largest consumer of rhinoceros horns , which are used to produce traditional remedies . |
| 41 | A manufacturing firm buys inventories of raw materials which are used to produce finished goods which are subsequently sold . |
| 42 | They are used to produce everyday items such as clothes , paint , carpets , food packaging , disinfectants , life-giving medicines … the list is endless . |
| 43 | The way in which these detectors are used to identify spoken words , however , differs considerably from the way in which identification is achieved in the Johnston-McClelland model . |
| 44 | For example , the Department of the Environment makes heavy use of similar housing indicators to those used in assessing GRE and little use of economic indicators in deriving its ‘ Z-scores ’ , presented as item seven in table 9.7 , which are used to identify special areas . |
| 45 | Despite this , externally borrowed funds are used to supplement domestic funds made available to finance their development by the government . |
| 46 | There is a danger , however , that such generalisations are used to disguise significant variations in the reaction to the position in which old people have been placed . |
| 47 | Purse nets are used to cover all holes leading to and from a warren system . |
| 48 | ( Supermarket scanners are used to convert printed bar-codes into price and stock-control information . |
| 49 | Recognise , in discussion , some features of presentation which are used to achieve identifiable purposes , such as to inform , to regulate , to reassure or to persuade , in non-literary and media texts — eg enhancement or suppression of colour , page layout , illustration , style and size of print , verbal emphasis through repetition , exclamation , vocabulary . |
| 50 | Write about some features of presentation which are used to achieve identifiable purposes , such as to inform , to regulate , to reassure or to persuade , in non-literary and media texts , showing some ability to form a considered opinion — eg when comparing two reports of the same event . |
| 51 | A wide variety of measures are used to achieve these aims . |
| 52 | For some antigens , the binding of retrovirus-associated antibody fragments to cell surfaces is followed by membrane fusion between virus and target cell : streptavidin-linked biotinylated monoclonal antibodies have been used to link ecotropic retroviruses to the surface of nonpermissive human cells with subsequent transfer of the viral genome into the target cells 27 . |
| 53 | Many of these applications have been used to tackle environmental problems such as pollution control , especially in the treatment of sewage , industrial and agricultural effluents as well as rubbish disposal . |
| 54 | Contributing to the rouble 's decline is the Russian central bank 's predilection for printing money , a big pile of which has been used to finance other CIS republics ' trade deficits with Russia . |
| 55 | Ricin 's poisonous properties are known in parts of Africa where beans have been used to kill unwanted children and neighbour 's cattle . |
| 56 | Mouse ICM is much more susceptible to lethal damage by X-irradiation or anti-metabolites than TE and treatment of embryos ( starting from the 2- to 8- cell stage ) with a variety of these reagents has been used to generate trophectodermal vesicles devoid of any apparent ICM ( discussed in ref. 28 ) . |
| 57 | Both direct and indirect methods have been used to improve rural locations as sites for manufacturing industry . |
| 58 | It is free of chlorofluorocarbon gases which have been used to cool most fridges for decades . |
| 59 | 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 . |
| 60 | Marx 's works had already begun to penetrate Russia earlier , but until now they had been used to buttress populist attacks on capitalism , rather than to develop a Marxist approach to revolution in Russia . |