Example sentences of "the [noun sg] used by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This means that the fraction and exponent are adjusted until the fraction ( considered as a sequence of digits in the base used by the floating point system ) has a non-zero left-hand or most-significant digit . |
| 2 | The latter is the technique used by the deputy head . |
| 3 | A soldier 's wife who stayed on in married quarters after her husband walked out has been asked to pay eight hundred pounds for trespass , the term used by the army when it considers a tenancy has become unlawful . |
| 4 | More generally , the reasoning used by the European Court of Justice in the Factortame case to justify requiring interim relief to be available to protect rights in European law has wide implications . |
| 5 | In all such cases , there is likely to be a strong element of provocation , and the stronger the provocation , the graver the violence used by the dissatisfied victim or relative is likely to be . |
| 6 | On 3 June last the painting was badly slashed in five places when it fell from the wall and caught on the scaffolding used by the restorers ( see The Art Newspaper No.20 , July-September 1992 , p.1 ) . |
| 7 | Police are appealing for anyone who saw the car used by the Drumkeen bombers , registration number PXI 9434 , between 10pm and 1am on Saturday to contact Strandtown RUC station . |
| 8 | The transformer used by the author was purchased from Trent Coil Winding Co. , Dept EE , 26 Derby Road , Long Eaton , Notts . |
| 9 | One point to mention is that Bjornsson avoided using raters who knew anything about readability research — he wanted overall difficulty , not linguistic variables as such , to be the criterion used by the readers . |
| 10 | One journalist has written that during the Grunwick dispute of the late 1970s a tap was attached to the telephone used by the strike committee in the Brent Trades ' Council offices in Willesden Lane . |
| 11 | The tactic used by the Commission for passing the Single European Act was to present it to the member states as if it were the only thing on offer : either take this or leave the Community . |
| 12 | If the quotation used by the qualitative sociologist is not too far from the heightened dialogue of the literary artist , it follows that , with only a little licence , one may use the work of at least some novelists much as one might use that of fellow ethnographers . |
| 13 | Far from mimicking the Statue of Liberty , the new statue holds a gun — not just any gun but an AK-47 , the weapon used by the army to blast its way into Peking . |
| 14 | In a research paper published today , Liberty — the logo used by the NCCL - warns that , without regulations , video surveillance could be used to harass groups who are considered a potential threat to public order , such as young people , ethnic minorities and political activists . |
| 15 | In an unprecedented ruling , a federal judge on Sept. 17 overturned the Senate 's 1989 impeachment of former federal judge Alcee L. Hastings on the grounds that the procedure used by the Senate to determine Hastings 's guilt had been defective . |
| 16 | Held , refusing the declarations , that a basic valuation prepared by an employee of a building society was an ‘ action taken by the society in relation to ’ the grant of a further advance within section 83(1) of the Act and since it constituted part of the society 's process of administration , such a valuation , if negligently prepared , could amount to maladministration within paragraph 1 ( d ) of Part III to Schedule 12 to the Act ; that , on the documentation used by the plaintiff societies , a house buyers ' valuation prepared by an employee created a contract between the society and the borrower , which if negligently prepared could amount to a breach of the society 's contractual obligation within paragraph 1 ( a ) of Part III to Schedule 12 ; that although the alleged want of due skill and care might relate to matters not affecting the society 's assessment of the adequacy of the security , the valuation was in reality a single process amounting to an action within section 83(1) ; and that , accordingly , the ombudsman had jurisdiction under the scheme set up under the Act to investigate and determine complaints arising out of basic valuations , house buyers ' valuations , and , since there was no relevant distinction in the nature of the contractual relationship , structural surveys by a society 's employee in the same circumstances ( post , pp. 145A–H , 150B — 151A , H — 152A ) . |
| 17 | The water used by the gas-cleaning plant is cooled by a cooling tower which itself emits two water-vapour plumes , the density of which varies according to climatic conditions . |
| 18 | The lexicon used by the present project reflects both the needs of the various analysers and the subjectivity of manual intervention to resolve the morphological inconsistencies . |
| 19 | The huge single mast had its large sail furled under the platform used by the look-out . |
| 20 | The vessel used by the smugglers on this occasion was the sailing yacht Eloise , a forty five feet sloop which had loaded her illicit cargo in the Mediterranean . |
| 21 | It is a remarkable fact , Mr Hopkins , that the argument used by the serpent to seduce Eve from her allegiance to her Creator is almost precisely that used by the Editor of The Times : " Ye shall be as GODS , knowing good and evil " … that is , as wise as God Himself ! " |
| 22 | Back at Talland Bay our Officers let the smugglers do the heavy work of loading the huge two and a quarter ton cargo of cannabis resin ( street value £2,500,000 wrapped in Christmas paper into vans before moving in to arrest them while cottages and a cafe in the area used by the UK based gang were also raided . |
| 23 | Before obtaining CNAA approval , courses had to have authorization under further education regulations from the Regional Advisory Councils , the machinery used by the DES for this purpose . |
| 24 | A similar approach is taken with the grammar used by the METAL machine translation system . |
| 25 | The constant to be applied may be obtained from : ( a ) The breakdown of the rate used by the estimator in producing the tender . |
| 26 | It is particularly noticeable in his discussion of what he regards as ‘ irrational ’ protest movements , such as those associated with witchcraft and satanism , and for our purposes these are of special interest since they highlight the strategy used by the members of the Annales school to explain individual beliefs and actions . |
| 27 | It is usually a case of accepting the method used by the manufacturer whose software is being employed . |
| 28 | The method used by the gang leader to divide payments will vary as follows : ( a ) The money will be divided equally between all gang members . |
| 29 | The method used by the original Canon laser engine is called ‘ write black ’ because it charges up those areas of the drum that are going to become black when printed . |
| 30 | Its secretary-general , Benny Alexander , said on Feb. 18 that the organization remained " committed to the armed struggle " , adding : " Neither the ANC nor the regime has the right to prescribe the method used by the broad liberation movements . |