Example sentences of "[noun sg] used [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the production of EM energy in certain solid crystals when they become compressed and stretched in particular directions ( an effect used in a crystal pick-up of a record player ) . |
| 2 | Indeed Butzer is a geographer who has made great contributions in defining a field of Pleistocene Geography which was the term used as a subtitle for his book on Environment and Archaeology first published in 1964 . |
| 3 | Non-recourse lending is the term used for a loan where the project itself rather than the company 's assets as a whole is the security offered to the lender . |
| 4 | ‘ Quality assurance ’ is the term used for a programme of activities instigated by service managers to ensure that certain standards are met . |
| 5 | This means that the labelling can be removed and the aid used as a recall test . |
| 6 | The style of preferred spelling , punctuation , hyphenation and indentation used in a publishing house or by a particular publication to ensure consistent typesetting . |
| 7 | This buzzard was photographed in Dartmoor with a car used as a hide . |
| 8 | RESIDENTS on a Londonderry housing estate tracked two men they had earlier seen allegedly acting suspiciously at a car used by a Ministry of Defence worker , a court heard yesterday . |
| 9 | There we find similar bodily constructs built up as series of organizing principles , so that the other regiment or unit is perceived to operate in some kind of polluted time and space , and its aberrant nuances of uniform styling used as a marker of significant difference . |
| 10 | Without the background notes we would not have known that , among many other points of interest , our boots crunched long the line of an 1805 horse-drawn tram road and beside a pub used as a meeting for Chartist agitators . |
| 11 | Some of the equipment used in a sea bed survey of the English Channel in relation to a proposed tunnel between England and France , was made and tested at Crondall . |
| 12 | If banks ' liquid assets increase , they be can used as a base for increasing loans . |
| 13 | ‘ Seriously reduced visibility conditions ’ in relation to a vehicle used on a road during daytime hours may include such conditions adversely affecting visibility ( whether consisting of , or including , fog , smoke , heavy rain or spray , snow , dense cloud , or any similar condition ) as seriously reduce the ability of the driver ( after the appropriate use by him of any windscreen wiper and washer ) to see other vehicles or persons on the road , or the ability of other users of the road to see the vehicle . |
| 14 | item No 2 : is a candle snuffer of the type used with a candle dish and dates from the late 18th century . |
| 15 | The Problem Reporting Dialogue used by a Problem ‘ Author ’ , that is the person who identified a problem , offers the following options : |
| 16 | There is no implied warranty that a plan used in a lease is accurate ( Re Sparrow and James ' Contract [ 1910 ] 2 Ch 60 ) . |
| 17 | To assess the independent effect of predictor variables on the laminin concentration ( dependent variable ) , we used a multivariate linear regression modelling technique with forward stepwise addition of variables and a probability of <0.05 for the F test used as a criterion for the addition of a predictor variable . |
| 18 | There is often considerable vocabulary used amongst a group of children engrossed in their threading activities which incorporates ideas of growth in length as well as naming colours and shapes of individual beads . |
| 19 | The analysis has also shown that the level of formality used by a character in conversation with other characters may be a revealing area of study in determining a character 's sense of his or her own power and confidence in a given conversational situation . |
| 20 | Mr W. F. G. Plowden has agreed in principle to the Society having the Bishop 's Castle Railway goods van , at present used as a shed at Eaton Station House — but the Society will have to provide a shed in lieu . |
| 21 | The Baroque church is at present used as a warehouse , but note the fine windows . |
| 22 | We only have a small concrete building used as a youth club and the only sport that can be played is table tennis . ’ |
| 23 | Only two are in use and the others are in a cabin used as a store . |
| 24 | Stations on the Cambrian Line are now pretty decrepit : Welshpool boarded up and part used by a Catering Contractor with minimal facilities and passenger information but the station is to be done up by the Local Authority : Newtown — possibly manned for only one shift per day ; Caersws — very nice with the semaphore signals and signal box still in use . |
| 25 | If you always have , have to be careful , you know you 're a bit used to a temper , you know . |
| 26 | While accommodation was dominant in imitation , it is assimilation which dominates in play , as in the classic example of a stick used as a hobby horse ( Gombrich 1963 ) . |
| 27 | The outbuilding used as a mortuary was round the back . |
| 28 | There was a need , he said , to specify the maximum allowable functions that a calculator used in an exam could be capable of . |
| 29 | The type of terminology used in a business letter taken from the domain of banking is relatively well used in everyday life and consequently well understood . |
| 30 | No firm action was taken on methyl bromide , a pesticide used as a fumigant , which has also been found to destroy ozone , and officials merely recommended a freeze on production and consumption at 1992 levels by 1995 , with a 25 per cent cut by the year 2000 . |