Example sentences of "used [adv] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a breathtaking tactic and has been used most dramatically in the debate over federalism . |
| 2 | But outside China , sun-dried bricks are used most extensively in the rich south-west of the United States . |
| 3 | There are several ways of expressing the factors affecting the cash position in the money market , but this is the method used most often in the Bank 's Quarterly Bulletin . |
| 4 | If , however , a metaphor is used sufficiently frequently with a particular meaning , it loses its characteristic flavour , or piquancy , its capacity to surprise , and hearers encode the metaphorical meaning as one of the standard senses of the expression . |
| 5 | Thereafter the Beco Chapel closed and was used only occasionally by an unlicensed chaplain until its final closure in 1893 — when six pieces of gilded silver plate were returned to the English Church . |
| 6 | Hire purchase and bank or finance company loans , if used , are most likely to be used only once in the year — but for relatively large sums . |
| 7 | Because terms like highway hypnosis , DWA and DWAM have been used somewhat indiscriminately in the literature previously this thesis will reserve them exclusively for the hypothetical trance-like state which may be a precursor to motorway accidents and use Reason 's term ‘ time-gap experience ’ to refer to this second phenomenon . |
| 8 | One option that he did not possess was the mass medium of radio which he had used so effectively during the war : in April 1947 the prime minister Paul Ramadier prohibited retransmission of de Gaulle 's speeches . |
| 9 | The word ‘ sweet ’ is used so often throughout the scene that it loses all worth , in the same way that a Chaucerian epithet such as ‘ fresshe ’ comes to mean almost the opposite when continually applied to January 's wife May in The Merchant 's Tale . |
| 10 | It is used elsewhere only for the watertight " basket " in which the baby Moses floated on the Nile — an interesting parallel . |
| 11 | In a later issue the magazine allowed its pages to be used once more for a final farewell to the controversy and an epilogue to it . |
| 12 | Power stations can be made cleaner and more efficient , so that they use less fossil fuel , particularly high carbon coal ; energy can be used more economically by the consumer ; and there is nuclear energy ( the subject of the following chapter ) , which whatever else it is capable of doing , does not produce carbon dioxide . |
| 13 | Gears must be used more frequently with the extra weight of the loaded trailer , and it is important to change down in plenty of time to prevent having to brake fiercely . |
| 14 | In the present study , the expression was used more frequently in the pooled with conditions than in the pooled and conditions , and thus corresponded to conditions in which plurals were less frequent . |
| 15 | The research aims to develop techniques of obtaining information about the landscape using remote sensing systems and to present and display these data so that they may be used more effectively for the management of landscape resources . |
| 16 | Will the right hon. Gentleman study the battery of legislation available in the Province to determine whether it could be used more effectively by the security forces to interrogate people ? |
| 17 | They believed that high levels of government spending were pre-empting resources that could have been used more productively in the private sector , that high taxes were stifling private enterprise , and that the abolition of the complex system of government regulations , interventions , and subsidies would unleash a new wave of private initiative and energy . |
| 18 | I thought that private investment could have been used more imaginatively in the period of the 1980–1 recession and was not satisfied with the Treasury 's replies . |
| 19 | Also described is how expert systems can enhance human expertise and allow it to be used more efficiently in the specific working environment of aircraft maintenance . |
| 20 | The term is now used more commonly in a broad sense in which it connotes a looser grouping of individuals , each exercising power and united by one or more of a number of features such as wealth , social origins or pre-eminence in achievement in a particular field . |
| 21 | It turned out to be erm used more fully as a family centre , where families would come and spend half a day , than it did the casual pop-in arts centre , which the old arts laboratories or the more conventional arts centre perhaps were directed towards . |
| 22 | In addition , we had a 1989 Bottlang to give us the location of the Visual Reporting Points which are used extensively all over the Continent . |
| 23 | The polymer treatment might be used straight away as a daily mouthwash for mentally handicapped people to stop plaque sticking to teeth . |
| 24 | The first can be called the ‘ umbrella sense : ’ unreasonable is used here simply as a synonym for a host of more specific grounds of attack , such as taking account of irrelevant considerations , acting for improper purposes and acting malai fide , which , as Lord Greene M.R. himself said , tend to run into one another . |
| 25 | The book and cassette together would provide a good home refresher course but could be used equally well during a day or evening class revision course . |
| 26 | This technique has been used increasingly often in the recent past as a way of signalling the Bank 's wishes on the appropriate level of interest rates . |
| 27 | They are the same machines used everywhere else in the world . |
| 28 | Permissiveness is used almost universally as a pejorative term . |
| 29 | It was too expensive for most private individuals there to send telegrams ; the network was used almost exclusively by the authorities . |
| 30 | But — Johnsen is an excellent player : he has — great — speed ( if he make it to Leeds i reckon he will be their fastest player along with Wallace — he might actually be faster than W. ) , he is technically good , good ‘ nuff in the air — but his great force is that he can be used almost everywhere on the field . |