Example sentences of "used [to-vb] [conj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Lengths of wool or strips of paper are sometimes used to emphasise that the mark represents a height from the floor . |
2 | He felt suddenly a brief return of the closeness they had used to enjoy when the children were small and she still felt important to them and minded less his involvement with his work . |
3 | I think that teachers need to know people that they can turn to for further advice , but that they could familiarize themselves much more with what , as it were , they can do in the first instance by screening children , by using there are number of published materials , learning inventories , that can be used to discover whether a child has some difficulties that might point in this direction of dyslexia . |
4 | Since much of the computation time is used to establish that the solution is optimal , premature termination of the procedure can often save time and yet still give the optimal solution , although its optimality can not be guaranteed . |
5 | This option is used to indicate that a package is ready for approval . |
6 | The ‘ Pages per File ’ should be entered as a decimal number ; note that 0 should be used to indicate that no file splitting is to take place and that the default is 500 pages per file . |
7 | The value -1 ( minus one ) is used to indicate that no data are available for certain countries ( specifically : Mauritania , Guinea-Bissau , Liberia , Gabon , Congo , the Central African Republic , Namibia , Togo and Botswana ) . |
8 | The Altimeter will be used to indicate that the pitch attitude is correct . |
9 | Coloured cards or strips can be used to indicate whether a room is vacant , occupied by staff , being cleaned or out of commission . |
10 | ‘ A form issued by the Governatorato dello Stato della Citta del Vaticano is used to certify that the products are intended for consumption , ’ he said in his written reply . |
11 | In the west London population in McKeigue and Leon 's study only one urine sample was used to define whether the subjects had microalbuminuria , whereas our subjects were characterised by overnight and daytime urine collections . |
12 | If possible price levels to achieve this can be hypothesized , the model of table 5.2 can be used to inquire whether the experience-curve effect is adequate to sustain a positive NPV at such price levels . |
13 | A technique which is used to suggest that the people are at a very early stage of linguistic development is underlexicalisation : the use of a restricted vocabulary and the avoidance of terms outside the experience and linguistic resources of the people ( see Fowler 1981 : 40 ; 1986 : 152 – 4 ) . |
14 | Some years ago the word ‘ psychosomatic ’ was often prefaced by the word ‘ merely ’ and was used to suggest that an illness was in some way unreal or made up . |
15 | The central issues which require resolution are the criteria to be used to determine whether a capital instrument represents debt or equity and the treatment of instruments like convertible debt which will or may be exchanged for other instruments . |
16 | Two general techniques have been used to determine whether a string is a legal combination of characters . |
17 | OUP expect to establish with the supplier the criteria which will be used to determine whether the system functions correctly and can be accepted by OUP . |
18 | Chafe suggests two variables which can be used to determine whether an item may or may not have left the addressee 's consciousness : |
19 | A similar approach was used to determine that the location of the new Taq I site in patient B was in the cDNA sequence , as digestion of a 518-bp PCR product ( generated with oligonucleotide primers A5i and A3 ; Fig. 5 a ) with Taq I resulted in the appearance of three Taq I fragments of 107bp , 125bp and 286bp , instead of the expected normal pattern of 107bp and 411bp fragments only ( Fig. 5 b ) . |
20 | I am sure that the hon. Gentleman agrees that it is crucial that approved contractors are used to ensure that the work is done to the highest possible standard . |
21 | Primers derived from human β actin were used as internal PCR controls resulted in a 623 bp product ( data not shown ) and was used to ensure that the PCR worked consistently each time and the actin product acted as an additional size marker . |
22 | In this way , the criminal law is used to ensure that the society is a fair and just one , according to the prevailing view of those terms at the time . |
23 | They are used to ensure that the entity model will support the functions that may use the data model . |
24 | The sensitivity of the instrument may be increased by increasing the power of the laser or by decreasing the level of stray light in the monochromator ; double- or even triple-grating monochromators are generally used to ensure that the Raman signals , often as weak as 10 -6 or less of the intensity of the exciting radiation , are not swamped by unshifted radiation by-passing the monochromator . |
25 | Inventory Control is used to ensure that the costs of buying and holding stock are minimised , taking into account the necessary inventory levels for operating the business and keeping the customer supplied . |
26 | Public examinations , employers ' , schools ' and colleges ' own assessments and profiles , such as that described in Example D , are used to decide whether a pupil will or will not be accepted for a job , vocational training or higher education . |
27 | However , firms already have to face uncertainty in the context of UCTA and the criteria used to assess whether a duty of care which would give rise to liability in tort is owed . |
28 | RNA in situ hybridization was used to demonstrate that the CFTR expression plasmid can be delivered to airway epithelial cells by liposome-mediated transfection in vivo . |
29 | Intel supply a test program with the upgrade and this is used to check that the upgrade is installed and performing correctly . |
30 | Incubations were performed under basal conditions , in the presence of 4 µM forskolin ( a well known stimulator of adenylate cyclase ) used to check if the homogenates retained the ability to respond to stimuli and with a peptic tryptic cotazym digest of bread ( San Pastore ) wheat gliadin ( 50 µg/ml ) ( supplied by Dr M De Vincenzi , Istituto Superiore di Santià , Istituto Sperimentale per la Cerealicoltura , Rome ) . |