Example sentences of "[be] used [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Government time will be used to submit to the House for debate , official reports , White Papers setting out government proposals and government statements on matters of topical public importance . |
| 2 | He suggests the army could no longer be used to drain off the unemployable proletariat by conscription , nor could the newly independent colonies be used to dump the troublesome of society ( see also Hughes 1987 ) . |
| 3 | And of course when you was er was n't on guard duty at the f early evening , course there used to be used to pop into the Peel and have a couple of halves or some would have a pint and there was a chap in , in the Home , Home Guard he , he used to be able to play the piano so we used to have a singsong in there for a social , you know . |
| 4 | The PF1/6 keys can be used to ABORT from the input page . |
| 5 | The PF1/6 keys can be used to ABORT from the current page . |
| 6 | In this sense science is not a sociological category ( i.e. one that can be used to describe specific social forms ) nor is it an epistemological category ( i.e. one that can be used to account for the form or validity of knowledge ) . |
| 7 | Unlike the subject-predicate distinction , the notions of theme and rheme can be used to account for the acceptability ( rather than grammaticality ) of a given sequence in a given context . |
| 8 | Deffenbacher ( 1983 ) reviewed the literature available on the relationship between emotional arousal and eyewitness testimony and concluded that the results were consistent with the idea that the general inverted-U relationship between arousal and performance could be used to account for the memory findings . |
| 9 | The theory can be used to account for the gas laws described above . |
| 10 | The fundamental equation ( 12 ) of the kinetic theory can be used to account for the ideal gas equation |
| 11 | It is effective when read aloud , where the voice can be used to carry over the syntax and sense . |
| 12 | Search can also be used to search for a single word or a string of words and letters . |
| 13 | Show how the " translate and test " instruction described on page 117 can be used to search for the first comma . |
| 14 | If large numbers of animals are to be killed a euthanasia chamber can be used consisting of a container linked to a cylinder of carbon dioxide . |
| 15 | Photographs , videos and models will be used to put across the feeling of the Cumbrian farming landscape , including a section devoted to the Trust 's work , and the NHK will be making a donation of £50,000 towards the Trust 's Lake District Appeal . |
| 16 | Describe the methods which could be used to arrive at an annual forecast of sales . |
| 17 | For large values of N i , Stirling 's approximation can be used to deal with the factorials viz. In , and equation ( 8.3 ) becomes which on dividing by N o gives If , the mole fraction of component i , then |
| 18 | If it does happen different officers will be used to deal with the two groups , so the cross-fertilisation theory does n't hold water . |
| 19 | Their idea is to examine the feasibility of a one-step diagnostic to indicate the presence of a particular molecule , such as might be used to test for the presence of surfactant . |
| 20 | As in the previous areas discussed , objects may not merely be used to refer to a given social group , but may themselves be constitutive of a certain social relation . |
| 21 | Less broadly than this , it can be used to refer to a disenchantment from more specific areas of a person 's life , such as his/her work , or from politics , or from religion , and so on . |
| 22 | Thus this can be used to refer to a forthcoming portion of the discourse , as in ( 88 ) , and that to a preceding portion , as in ( 89 ) : ( 88 ) I bet you have n't heard this story ( 89 ) That was the funniest story I 've ever heard Considerable confusion is likely to be caused here if we do not immediately make the distinction between discourse deixis and anaphora . |
| 23 | The same kind of representational language could be used to refer to the working of a television set or indeed a thermostat . |
| 24 | The term gender will be used to refer to the social construction of sexual differences . |
| 25 | One can not refer to a behaviour pattern as inherited ( or instinctive ) or learned ; the terms can only properly be used to refer to the causes of differences between individuals . |
| 26 | Third-person pronouns typically refer back ( or forward ) to a nominal expression in the text but may also be used to refer to an entity which is present in the immediate physical or mental context of situation . |
| 27 | Strictly speaking , this should be used to refer to an auditory sensation experienced by the hearer . |
| 28 | Also we have which can be used to replace in the previous equation : Multiplying both sides by sin 3 i gives which is a quantity known to astronomers as the mass function . |
| 29 | There is a pleasant dining room for house guests which can also be used to relax during the evening , plus a cosy lounge and TV room . |
| 30 | Precisely what sort of cable will be used depends on the network architecture you 've chosen . |