Example sentences of "be use [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The computer we are using has a precision of six decimal figures .
2 Cluster headings are used to create a link between the criteria and each process .
3 The indicators which vary most with income are used to create a summary index of standard of living , using principal component analysis for specific household types and for all household types .
4 The first are designed to present a formidable appearance in front of a crowd ; the second are sent into a crowd to disperse and/or incapacitate people with truncheons ; and the third are used to create a fear and scatter effect .
5 Rough estimates of cost are used to create a priority list of the most promising cases for further study .
6 Rough estimates of cost are used to create a priority list of the most promising cases for further study .
7 When emergency procedures are used to take a child into care , the Social Work Department has to obtain a Place of Safety order signed by a Sheriff or a Justice of the Peace .
8 Many strains of Bacillus thuringiensis , for example , are insect pathogens because they produce insecticidal chemicals and , as Payne ( 1988 ) has discussed , there are now a number of commercially available strains which are used to control a variety of insects .
9 SPRs are used to report a fault or documentation error relating to a specific issue or module under LIFESPAN control , and to suggest improvements to pieces of software or documentation .
10 SPRs are used to report a fault or documentation error relating to a specific issue or module under LIFESPAN control , and to suggest improvements to pieces of software or documentation .
11 Various behaviours are used to induce a loss in weight and in addition to the obvious ones of the avoidance of foot and undereating , including binge eating , self-induced vomiting , laxative use and the use of other drugs ( appetite suppressants and diuretics ) .
12 To make a choice from any menu , the Arrow keys ( or mouse if you have one ) are used to move a highlight bar to the appropriate place before pressing the ENTER key to select the option .
13 It also affects loans secured on an older person 's ( 65 years or over ) home which are used to purchase a life annuity .
14 I do not deal with the equally hard problem of the patient who is admitted unconscious to hospital after a suicide attempt , where the doctrines of implied consent or necessity are used to justify a doctor in treating him .
15 If these payments are kept up for five years and are used to buy a home , the Ministry of Defence will add £1 tax-free for every £3 saved .
16 First they are used to show a pause , between parts of a sentence , which makes it for example , when you start off with a subordinate clause , after I 'd cashed my Giro comma I went to the shops and bought some food , or , because of the derailment comma all the trains were running late .
17 The key idea in the unification-based approaches is that informational structures ( known as feature structures ) are used to encode a variety of linguistic information ( lexical , syntactic and semantic ) in a uniform manner .
18 The apparatus consists of a thermostatted chamber , saturated with solvent vapour at the temperature of measurement , and containing two differential matched thermistors which are capable of detecting temperature differences as low as 10 -4 K. Two syringes , one for solvent and one for solution , are used to apply a drop of solution to one thermistor , and a drop of solvent to the other .
19 Often the quality of the translation may be tested by examining the items indexed under a number of possible terms that might have been used to describe a subject in an index .
20 The wooden pallet bed is n't needed for rest , and like the rest of the room has been used to mount a display for one of Bremer 's collections .
21 The problem with a literal approach is that it has frequently been used to persuade a court that wholly unlikely consequences might arise and that the court should , in the light of those consequences conclude that the restraint is unreasonable .
22 Some of these characters are also present in Dryopithecus , and they have been used to support a relationship of this genus with the living great apes , but their presence in Oreopithecus , which is so highly specialized cranially , must cast some doubt on this interpretation .
23 It has been under test in Germany for a year where it has been used to control a Mercedes test vehicle on the autobahn .
24 Any sort of boat could have been used to ferry a body to midstream and to put it gently over the side in darkness .
25 The AWK programming language has been used to implement a variation of the collocation technique described above .
26 Specifically the money has been used to appoint a Project Officer , Nick Lewer .
27 In the Report " art " had been used to legitimate a realm of cultural value in such a manner as to render it equally immune from state interference and democratic accountability .
28 The statutory power to recommend a minimum period might , in practice , have been used to create a tariff among the judges for all murders , so that the recommended minimum came to be regarded as the appropriate period of detention , subject only to the question whether the prisoner was a danger to the public when it expired .
29 Developed in this country as an applications generator it has been used to create a data base publishing system of exceptional power .
30 ‘ The Commission would have to assess whether the evidence compiled by the Daily Mirror could have been used to obtain a conviction in criminal proceedings .
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