Example sentences of "[adv] use [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Plasma is apparently used to raise the levels of protein in the body and blood to raise the level of oxygen , but both it appears are equally unacceptable to a committed Jehovah 's Witness as being , or being derived from , the body tissues of another . |
| 2 | Military equipment which had belonged to the East German army had been supplied to Turkey during the Gulf war in 1991 on condition that it was only used to defend the borders of Turkey or other NATO member-states . |
| 3 | Although in word-processing this key acts in the same way as the typewriter lever that moves the paper up one line , on a computer it is only used to force the word-processor to move one line — usually at the end of a paragraph . |
| 4 | She had already explained the full landing procedures , the control of the plane by power and rudder , the way the ailerons were only used to hold the plane level . |
| 5 | Remember : keep your hands on the mast — the rope is only used to raise the rig . |
| 6 | Histological examination of the oesophageal mucosa was only used to establish the presence of Barrett 's oesophagus and not the diagnosis of oesophagitis . |
| 7 | If a pension becomes large enough to move away from managed funds , specialist fund managers are normally used to invest the assets , and extremely large pension funds such as British Coal tend to employ a team of specialist investment advisors . |
| 8 | The pike 's mouth also has no flesh in it so treble hooks are normally used to secure the fish is caught . |
| 9 | The mean accident estimate was thus used to split the data into the ‘ junctions with the highest accident estimates and the 23 with the lowest ( 3 junctions with the median score of 2.3 were not included in this analysis ) . |
| 10 | From the tool case he took the scalpel he had already used to persuade the terrorist . |
| 11 | In recent times gilt has been widely used to create the effect of gold , but during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries there was a fashion in Europe for silver thrones , like that made for the coronation of the Queen of Denmark in 1731 . |
| 12 | The word widely used to describe the sequel is Konsequent . |
| 13 | Abraham 's story is widely used to justify the irrationality of faith . |
| 14 | This exemption is widely used to exempt the distribution of confidential material such as long form reports , business plans and investment memoranda to small groups of potential investors . |
| 15 | The terms are thereby used to describe the level at which decisions are taken in the management hierarchy . |
| 16 | The fact that a Marine battalion from Basilan and a police unit from Leyte were eventually used to confront the rebels , also suggested that the government lacked confidence in the reliability of the local units based in Mindanao . |
| 17 | The results presented in this paper demonstrate that the footprinting technique can be successfully used to visualise the dissociation of actinomycin from individual sites on a mixed sequence DNA . |
| 18 | Laminate theory has also been successfully used to explain the properties of injection-moulded block copolymers . |
| 19 | In the past few years the appeal system has been successfully used to overcome the resistance of reluctant local authorities , and development has tended to proceed on an ad hoc basis with new centres sited where developers can acquire land easily rather than on the basis of any strategic plan . |
| 20 | Then there is the tragedy of Tibet , where large population transfers from China are being deliberately used to subvert the will of a brave people . |
| 21 | An erosion surface should show up as an excess in a certain range of altitude and this can be revealed by a device such as a hypsographic curve , which aims to depict the overall distribution of elevation and is usually used to illustrate the earth 's major relief features . |
| 22 | Large volume lava flows , though , are not an essential part of a Strombolian eruption ; the term is usually used to describe the activity within the crater . |
| 23 | A dictionary of legal words is usually used to calculate the probabilities , but they can be calculated dynamically from the text being processed . |
| 24 | In practice the term function is usually used to indicate the contribution an institution makes to the maintenance and survival of the social system : a major function of the family is the socialization of new members of society . |
| 25 | We went across a large lake and then took a hike up a trail to see some old steam engines and lots of parts strewn about ; the trains were once used to transport the logs . |
| 26 | The other common instruction format is the two-address format , where each instruction holds the addresses of two operands , and one of these addresses is further used to hold the result . |
| 27 | The rig is partly used to steer the board through the turn by angling it across the board into wind . |
| 28 | Other imagery , apart from husbandry , is also used to illustrate the growth of the Kingdom . |
| 29 | Clonidine is generally used to treat raised blood pressure and also migraine , but is also used to lessen the effects of withdrawal . |
| 30 | Thiabendazole and other fungicides are also used to prolong the storage life of oranges and lemons . |