Example sentences of "it [is] use [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's no good my saying I know it 's used for the right purpose . |
| 2 | Butyl has a substantially longer life expectancy than pvc — it 's used in the construction of reservoirs — but it can still be damaged by piercing . |
| 3 | Working on the same principle as a jigsaw , but with the reciprocating blade in line with the saw body , it 's used in the same position as a hand saw , but held with both hands . |
| 4 | Thus when the chimpanzee , supplied in the laboratory with two boxes and a stick to reach a suspended bunch of bananas , stops leaping up and trying the reach them with its hands and instead puts one box on top of the other , climbs up and dislodges the bananas with the stick , it is using to the full its basic ability to suppress the automatic response — leaping up — in favour of the intelligent one — climbing up and reaching with the stick . |
| 5 | Languages can be learned ‘ at home ’ , where there are few opportunities for mixing with the native users of the language ( such as evening class french ) or they can be learned in a second language situation , either in the country in which that language is native or in one 's own country where the language is used for a specific purpose ( such as learning English in parts of Africa where it is used as the commercial language ) . |
| 6 | Nevertheless it is used as the unit of account not only by the IMF but also by a number of international organizations of modest importance , e.g. Arab Monetary Fund , Economic Community of West African States , Nordic Investment Bank . |
| 7 | Finally there is a fifth meaning , which possibly has some evolutionary connection with the fourth meaning , and it is used for the instinctive affection of parents for the offspring . |
| 8 | Now it is used for the hearing of court cases only . |
| 9 | Any part of the cost of a development which is attributable to plant and machinery will generally qualify for a 25% annual allowance if it is used for the purchaser 's trade or leased by the purchaser to another for the purpose of the other 's trade . |
| 10 | The Intelligent Bus Interface Module is a data acquisition engine with a 40MHz 68030 processor , which resides on the VMEbus , enabling high volumes of data to be transmitted or received independent of the central host processor when it is used with the new input-output board . |
| 11 | Indeed , it will be seen that dare can express a sense very close to its meaning as a modal even while maintaining most of the syntactic characteristics of a full verb , in which case it is used with the bare form — eloquent proof that the use of one or the other version of the infinitive is conditioned by meaning and not by automatically operating syntactic rules . |
| 12 | One of the best forms of supplement is haemoglobin iron which is derived from beef blood and is completely natural ( virtually 100% of it is used by the body compared to very low utilisation by the body of synthetic iron-ferrous salts ) . |
| 13 | Now it is used by the local playgroup and various other events take place there too . |
| 14 | It is used by the laboratories of Boots and Glaxo , and in the intensive care units of Bupa hospitals . |
| 15 | It is used by the Conclave of Cardinals to choose a Pope , by the Democratic and Republican Conventions in the United States to choose a presidential candidate , and by the Labour Party both to choose a Leader and to elect local officers . |
| 16 | The tenant may be wary of this in case it is used by the landlord to remove the tenant ( in a buoyant market ) but any dilatoriness on the part of the landlord in reinstating where none of the supervening events applies could be seized upon by the tenant . |
| 17 | As it is used in the draft poem it seems to imply that not only are the decadent versions of primitive sexual rituals inane , the god dead and impotent , however passionate the rituals of his worship , but that even the ultimate act of martyrdom is a sexual indulgence . |
| 18 | For reasons such as this it is important to ensure that the ‘ final edition ’ of the interview schedule has been adequately gone over and tried out before it is used in the full-scale field survey . |
| 19 | It is used in the majority of microcomputers on sale in Britain . |
| 20 | The stretch lace was bought at a market stall where it was available in black , white and skintone — I think it is used in the lingerie industry for bras ! |
| 21 | Everywhere else it is used in the sense of legal rules embodied in one document . |
| 22 | Because it is used in the passive , ‘ said ’ in the Japanese text is understood to mean something like ‘ criticized ’ , and this meaning is correctly rendered in the English translation . |
| 23 | The concept of referential rigidity in the sense in which it is used in the above theory , on the other hand , goes beyond this in that it already presupposes the idea of " per se " existence . |
| 24 | It is used in the story of the Flood , for instance , to denote ‘ the breath of life ’ ( Gen. 6:17 ) which God gives — and takes back again . |
| 25 | It is used in the structural engineering of chromosomes . |
| 26 | The main documents that are used to convey the financial information are the balance sheet , which lists the sources of the company 's capital and how it is used in the company , and the profit and loss account , which quantifies the aggregate expenditure and income of the company . |
| 27 | The main documents that are used to convey the financial information are the balance sheet , which lists the sources of the company 's capital and how it is used in the company , and the profit and loss account , which quantifies the aggregate expenditure and income of the company . |
| 28 | It is possible that lithium has an effect on the conduction in an axon by replacing the sodium ion and it is used in the treatment of depressive illness . |
| 29 | Hirtle 1975 : 37 for examples with realize , agree and understand ) , its meaning places it in the unique position of becoming the equivalent of a verb of perception when it is used in the operative sense . |
| 30 | This is the way it is used in the following example , but the pronunciation of the word is exactly as in LE : You know how white people stay . |