Example sentences of "[noun sg] used in the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lead ingots from Phylakopi , Melos and Aghia Irini , Kea , the three votive lead boats from an Early Cycladic grave on Naxos , the use of lead for small figurines and bracelets as well as for rivets used in mending pots , all go to suggest that the silver used in the Aegean during the third millennium B.C. was derived from galena ores . |
| 2 | Culyer ( 1973 , p. 185 ) provides a useful illustration of a trial PPB system with respect to the allocation of expenditure in a police force , although he prefers to call this approach ‘ output budgeting ’ , a term used in the UK civil service ( see below ) . |
| 3 | Some years ago Radio Luxembourg carried out a series of presentations to agencies on the subject of ‘ visual transfer ’ — a term used in the USA for the more or less observable fact that most of the TV audience recognize TV commercials from their soundtracks , and that , therefore , using the TV soundtrack , or something close to it , on radio can greatly enhance the coverage and frequency of a TV campaign . |
| 4 | In more technical terms , this approach differs from the tree-and-branch system of cabling , the type used in the US . |
| 5 | Shiu 's assessment ( this volume ) , the ‘ Chelsea Diagnostic Mathematics Tests ’ and the written test used in the Denvir and Brown study ( 1987 ) which were discussed under the heading ‘ Diagnostic assessment ’ are all , when used without individual interviews , examples of formative assessment and carried out before teaching , because they indicate suitable starting points . |
| 6 | The standard thread used in the UK industry is Polyfil 120 . |
| 7 | The kit , named Road Test , is a British version of a device used in the US for six years . |
| 8 | The oboe band used in the Philidor mascarade mentioned earlier , Le mariage de la Grosse Cathos , provides a possible model for how many players should perform each part . |
| 9 | Fig 2.3 shows a portion of the ATN grammar used in the BBN speech understanding system ( Woods et al , 1976 ) . |
| 10 | It would , for example , excuse the form of reverse engineering used in the Dyason v Autodesk case ( measuring the electrical signals passing between the dongle and the computer program ) . |
| 11 | ‘ Concentration ’ , the word used in the EC Merger Regulation is used only when discussing the application of that Regulation . |
| 12 | One approach used in the USA is to market the units as ‘ retreats ’ for busy managers . |
| 13 | A title of courtesy used in the UK in the address of a letter after a man 's family name , instead of Mr before it . |
| 14 | As well as the agreement under which Sharp will license the ARM chip used in the Newton , Motorola will make a handheld device running the Newton operating system , and Cirrus will develop Newton-compatible chip sets for use both by licensees of the Newton operating system and by Apple itself for use in members of the planned Newton family . |
| 15 | Fraser 's had two thousand pounds in cash and been allowed lots of time by the airforce , and the army gave him a radio used in the Falklands — the rest he 's done himself with a mortgage |
| 16 | Last year , only 21% of glass used in the UK was recycled . |
| 17 | The pressure of the stylus causes the two conductive surfaces to make contact , a principle used in the Sinclair ZX81 's keyboard . |
| 18 | The PR system used in the Weimar Republic of 1919 to 1933 had made it all too easy for very small parties to be represented in the Reichstag , to the detriment of firm governance . ) |
| 19 | The NTSC TV system used in the US and Japan builds its pictures or fields , each with 262.5 lines . |
| 20 | Cray Research Inc has a new disk array based on its DA-60 and DA-62 arrays and a new DCA-3 channel adaptor , providing the first RAID level 3 capability from Cray and a four-fold increase in data transfer rate ; it also cut prices on its DD-60 and DD-62 disk drives , which make up the DA-60 and DA-62 arrays , by 20% and 28% respectively ; DA-60 prices now begin at $190,000 and DA-62 prices begin at $120,000 ; the DCA-3 channel adaptor is based on the chip technology used in the Y-MP C90 supercomputer ; it 's $50,000 . |
| 21 | The technology used in the RIOS 2 three-chip chipset — which IBM will use in upcoming Power Parallel machines ( UX No 422 ) — should re-establish IBM as the performance leader , says The Microprocessor Report , which estimates the thing will fetch around 100 SPECint92 . |
| 22 | Much of the technology used in the Macintosh came via Xerox 's Palo Alto Research Centre where they had also been investigating page printing technology and methods of transferring complex graphics between screens and the printed page . |
| 23 | All the forensic evidence showed in support of the theory was that the timer used in the Lockerbie bomb appeared to be identical with a batch sold to the Libyans three years before the bombing , and that the clothing wrapped around the bomb came from Malta , which had close links with Libya . |
| 24 | Toton took over responsibility for all Railfreight Coal traction used in the Midlands , North West , Yorkshire and North East districts , comprising some 250 locomotives of Classes 20 , 56 and 58 . |