Example sentences of "it is used [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Thus the power of the American business executive is seen as legitimate authority because it is used to further productivity , a goal shared by all members of society . |
2 | It is used to different degrees in different authorities , which indicates that some have found a way to avoid this particular form of compulsory removal . |
3 | During the International Festival it is used for apron-stage theatrical performances . |
4 | It is used for administrative purposes ( bed usage , duration of stay , operations , etc. ) and studies of illness treated in hospital . |
5 | The result is both neat and hard-wearing — it is used for most knitwear commercially after all . |
6 | In reality , the term should only be applied to items made under royal commission , but in practice it is used for any rug from these weaving centres produced in the Pahlavi style ( pls 36 , 37 ) . |
7 | No other business jet has so many differing roles : in addition to corporate use , it is used for military liaison and communication flights , casualty evacuation , photographic survey , aeronautical and meteorological research , navaid calibration , airline crew training , Electronic Counter Measure ( ECM mission , weapon system trainer ( Mirage 111E ) , mini freight carrier and in the near future the Garrett turbofan-engine 20G will be operated by the United States Coast Guard . |
8 | Admittedly , where it is used for mass vaccination its reported efficacy has varied widely , as detailed by Citron . |
9 | It is universal in the sense that it is used on all five continents . |
10 | There is no shading on the rock here , but it is used on two out of three tiny , marvellous cups from Athens ( figs. 113 , 114 ) made by a potter Sotades and painted by the ‘ Sotades Painter ’ who may well have been the same man . |
11 | It is used with absorbent disposable potty pouches , which can be removed when the job is done , and disposed of in the same way as a disposable nappy . |
12 | Easy to dye , it is used with other fabrics such as Cordura for lightweight and fashion boots . |
13 | ‘ poeticity ’ , he says , is like oil in cooking ; you can not have it on its own but when it is used with other food it is more than a mere addition . |
14 | Examples of its use in various ways are to be found in Tristan and Parsifal ( many unaccompanied recitative-like passages ) , Tchaikovsky 's ‘ Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy ’ from the Nutcracker Suite ( very few notes , but marvellously effective ) , Elgar 's Symphony No. 2 ( endless examples of bass clarinet doublings ) , Stravinsky 's Petrushka ( in the 1st scene where it is used with two ordinary clarinets during the extraordinarily realistic hurdy-gurdy episode , and in the Moor 's scene later on with grotesquely sinister effect ) . |
15 | The heater matrix on the SIII commonly blocks up if it is used with hard water so it may need cleaning out by a radiator specialist or replacing as flushing with cleaning chemicals is not very effective . |
16 | Actually , it is very effective as a screwdriver , as it is used at right angles to the screw , and therefore provided great leverage . |
17 | However , it is crucial to the successful design of programs for general use that the designer be aware of the wide variety of ways in which his material will be used — if it is used at all by others . |
18 | Even a fifteen-minute programme will take up a considerable amount of lesson time if it is used at all flexibly , with pauses for discussion and repeat viewings of some sections . |
19 | It is used at full strength for immediate odour elimination , or in a 6 to 1 dilution for ongoing preventative maintenance . |
20 | Now it is used by all types of banks and it is not uncommon for NBFIs to lend surplus funds through this market . |
21 | It is used by vast numbers of people who do not live there but take lunch at its many bus stops . |
22 | Rather he is a participant in a form of life and the meaning of Truth for him is made apparent from the way in which it is used in that form of life . |
23 | The interesting implication of disregarding them is that in so far as the STV can operate and be judged as a PR system , it is not at all because it provides for transfers of votes , but because it is used in pluri-member constituencies in which candidates of more than one party can be voted for effectively . |
24 | It is used in many weapon forms ( katas ) , notably in tai chi chuan . |
25 | To the extent that it is used in many countries as part of the process by which scientists communicate , and through which scientific knowledge grows , it will be treated here as equivalent to the formal . |
26 | The morpheme which is glossed as " father " may have extended meanings when it is used in other contexts , but its real meaning is " father " in its ordinary English sense of " male parent " . |
27 | By proposing discourse as the object of analysis , Barthes shows that language , when it is used in certain ways ( in this instance a story ) , has levels of structure that operate beyond the level of structural linguistics or even semiology . |
28 | It is used in domestic castings — such as fireplaces — often with intricate ornamentation . |
29 | It is used in processed ham and bacon ; also to preserve the pink colour of the meat . |
30 | It is used in Chinese cookery . |