Example sentences of "used [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It is sometimes used interchangeably with the term ‘ integration ’ , but is quite distinct from the ideal of integration .
2 The term transnational capitalist class is used interchangeably in the singular and the plural .
3 ‘ Charge , ’ ‘ security ’ or ‘ security interest ’ will be used interchangeably in the sense in which charge is defined in the Companies Act 1985 , namely as any form of security , fixed or floating , over a company 's property present or future .
4 Although this is not accepted widely among the medical profession , there are many reports of it being used successfully for the treatment of hyperactive children .
5 McClellan 's system has been used successfully as the foundation for provision at his former authority of Tottenham Public Libraries , and a handful of authorities still use those ideas today in modified form .
6 It has been used successfully in the drilling of the first extended-reach well to the offshore extension of the Sherwood reservoir lying under Poole Bay and is now being used for the second well being drilled .
7 Rooted in the belief that motivation is inherent and students will participate if they are interested , ‘ the new romantic ’ technique was used effectively by the literacy and numeracy teacher .
8 However , such concerns are beyond the scope of this article , and although we are not always able to separate out the different areas of linguistic interest in the characterisation of an individual in a dramatic text ( many individual character traits are receptive to a number of different linguistic approaches ) , the large number of insights into characterisation offered by discourse and pragmatic analysis indicates the large extent to which they may be used effectively by the student of dramatic texts .
9 In an attempt to improve the effective provision of intelligence to decision makers , some companies , particularly in the USA , are experimenting with various ways of developing a process of gathering information , analysing and interpreting the information and ensuring that it is used effectively in the decision-making process .
10 Some were in use as fulling mills whilst others were used predominantly for the grinding of barley for brewing the monastery 's beer supply .
11 These are the non-renewable sources of energy that have been used predominantly in the past .
12 Local sales taxes , motor vehicle duties , poll taxes , taxes on industry , on commuters , or on tourists , are all used somewhere in the world — and local income taxes are common .
13 It has been said , in the first place , that they are used to throw into relief the particular property in the noun phrase which is of interest to the speaker ; that is , that adjectives are used postnominally for the sake of emphasis .
14 However nicknames today are used mostly in the place of christian names and the hey-day of this use in Halling was probably during the period of the late 19th century and the early 20th century .
15 Whatever the merits of either argument , it is an option used widely throughout the world as the earlier example from petrochemicals showed .
16 Human subjects have always figured in the history of medicine and are now used widely in the testing of cosmetics and toiletries , and treatments for common diseases like influenza , although there are ethical limits to the severity of the ailments , or expected toxicity , to which humans ought to be exposed .
17 NetWare SunLink will allow PC users to share applications data , file and print services across based Unix networks — with no changes required in the client software — but most importantly , it provides a Novell NetWare gateway to NFS , Sun 's Network File System which is used widely in the industry .
18 Its own shorter-acting injectable contraceptive , Noristerat , is now marketed in 31 countries , compared with Depo-Provera 's 80 , and is used widely in the World Health Organisation 's family-planning programmes .
19 While Pollitt was not satisfied that the United Front was being used sufficiently to the advantage of the Party , he warned at the Thirteenth Congress in February 1935 that the Communists should not be too obviously in control of the campaign for Unity .
20 Information disclosed on discovery in legal proceedings is clearly held under an obligation of confidence and may be used only for the purpose of those proceedings .
21 The freeholder demanded a clause in the lease precluding unnecessary noise , to which the company replied that there should be no noise , as the depôt was to be used only for the storage of tramcars .
22 These characteristics are the use of large columns to divide nave and choir from the aisles ; piers are used only at the crossing and then have slender clustered shafts .
23 In contrast , garam masala is used only at the end of cookery , to add voluptuous scent and flavour , revitalising and extending flavours which have been dulled by heat .
24 Competition on price was used only at the margin to win benefits for patients , for example in awarding waiting list contracts .
25 The plaintiffs gathered information as to the results of horse races from various courses and transmitted that information to subscribers on terms that it should be used only in the newspaper or posted only in the club , newsroom , office or other place to which it was delivered .
26 Typically context is used only in the form of spelling correction information to compensate for errors in character recognition .
27 Curiously this striking image was used only by the Star , which maintained the nickname in subsequent reports — DRACULA SEX FIEND ‘ STALKED HIS VICTIMS ' .
28 ‘ They are used all over the school . ’
29 PE inspector Alan Bell told county councillors that the good practice they saw influenced their draft report to education secretary Kenneth Clarke , so Durham 's guidelines are now being used all over the country .
30 In recent years British papers have been widely used all over the world .
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