Example sentences of "often use [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is often used to predict the next observation using the most recent ( k + 1 ) observations of a moderately stable series i.e. where |
| 2 | Single strokes are often used to mark the principal accents in the lighter forms of music . |
| 3 | The term anxiety is often used to describe the emotional reaction of an individual to a stressful event such as entering hospital . |
| 4 | This is a broad , catch-all term which ‘ gatecrashed the literature , thereby avoiding the entrance fee of a definition ’ ( Blackaby , 1979 , p. 2 ) ; the question of definitions is taken up in Chapter 2 but for the moment it is important to note that it is a misleading term for it is often used to describe the relative decline of manufacturing industry rather than industry as a whole which includes primary industries like mining , quarrying and oil and gas production and also includes construction and transport . |
| 5 | Was most often used to describe the original IBM PC , but is now more widely used to describe any computer . |
| 6 | These objects were often used to exemplify the competing images of the Romantic and nobel primitive and the cannibalistic barbarian as suited the arguments or interests of the time . |
| 7 | In direct supplies derived by rectifying the alternating mains , a low-pass C-R filter is often used to reduce the residual alternating component of the output to an acceptable low level . |