Example sentences of "be used [to-vb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cluster headings are used to create a link between the criteria and each process . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Rough estimates of cost are used to create a priority list of the most promising cases for further study . |
| 5 | Rough estimates of cost are used to create a priority list of the most promising cases for further study . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It also affects loans secured on an older person 's ( 65 years or over ) home which are used to purchase a life annuity . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It has been under test in Germany for a year where it has been used to control a Mercedes test vehicle on the autobahn . |
| 23 | Any sort of boat could have been used to ferry a body to midstream and to put it gently over the side in darkness . |
| 24 | The AWK programming language has been used to implement a variation of the collocation technique described above . |
| 25 | Specifically the money has been used to appoint a Project Officer , Nick Lewer . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Developed in this country as an applications generator it has been used to create a data base publishing system of exceptional power . |
| 29 | ‘ 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 . |
| 30 | Another name for an eruption is a ‘ burst ’ ( but this is sometimes used to mean the process generating an eruption rather than the eruption itself ; conversely , it has been used to mean a sequence of an eruption plus an inrush ) . |