Example sentences of "it [be] used [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's used to disturb vegetation and alert badger baiters waiting with their dogs . |
| 2 | It 's used to catch rabbits and foxes , but cats and dogs have also been its victim . |
| 3 | It is used to detect amino end groups in nylons dissolved in m-cresol , by titration with methanolic perchloric acid solution , and can be applied to vinyl polymers if an initiator fragment , perhaps containing halogen , is attached to the end of the chain . |
| 4 | At one extreme it is used to support power cables ; at the other to encapsulate electronic components . |
| 5 | The rate is expressed in ‘ real ’ terms ; that is , it is used to discount costs and benefits expressed in terms of constant prices . |
| 6 | It is used to treat nacrolepsy , a disease in which a person falls asleep abruptly and unpredictably during the day . |
| 7 | It is used to resolve issues about both small and large sums : the amounts at stake sometimes run into tens of millions of pounds . |
| 8 | It is used to generate heat in radiant and convector appliances ( where it is 100% efficient ) , and can provide whole-house heating using storage radiators ( only 95% efficient due to storage losses ) . |
| 9 | Younger children often try to use a funnel as a scoop , but as they progress , it is used to fill bottles , control the flow of water through the water wheel and as part of a complex water system of pipes , jugs and bottles on different levels . |
| 10 | It is used to transport carpets between the two companies and to make special deliveries to important customers in Milton Keynes , given its capacity load of fifty rolls . |
| 11 | This would be to outlaw general references to age in all current and future legislation where it is used to imply frailty or the need for services . |
| 12 | It is used to specify files associated with a FOREIGN module , thus : |
| 13 | It is used to specify files associated with a FOREIGN module , thus : CONTAINS-FILE[file name ] COMMENT[This is a comment ] |
| 14 | One important principle is that information is only valuable if it is used to inform decisions and actions that positively influence health . |
| 15 | It has given the go-ahead — and a $3 million grant — to a British company which plans to manufacture soap containing mercuric iodide for export to Africa , where it is used to lighten skin colour . |
| 16 | It is used to separate mixtures of solids . |
| 17 | Early in the new century , for example , the Hooligan 's name was snapped up as far away as Tsarist Russia where it was used to describe crimes as diverse as murder , arson and rape , as well as a wide scatter of mischief such as obscenity , window-breaking and stone-throwing , defacing buildings , singing indecent songs , blocking public thoroughfares , brawling and stealing carriage wheels . |
| 18 | Nicknamed Cold Turkey , it was used to ferry supplies and personnel from the mainland to the New Guinea battlefields and also took part in the Nadzab landing which , at the time , was the world 's largest airborne troop assault . |
| 19 | Built of stone and of conical shape , it was used to make steel by heating wrought iron with charcoal in sealed fireclay pots , so that the high carbon content of the charcoal was absorbed by the molten metal and became steel . |
| 20 | A rough but convenient index of heavy chemical production is provided by sulphuric acid , because it was used to make dyestuffs , fertilizers , and many other chemicals . |
| 21 | Farmers involved in set-aside have reported a drop in partridges breeding on land which previously enjoyed healthy populations of the birds when it was used to grow wheat and barley . |
| 22 | Originally it was used to summon Farnborough children to school , when the latter was housed in the earliest part of the house during the nineteenth century : the low bit on the west side which is now the kitchen . |
| 23 | Much of it was used to contain cremations or as accessory vessels in inhumation graves ; it is the funerary pottery that has attracted the most attention . |
| 24 | In the first century A.D. Pliny wrote that it was discovered in Spain in the previous century , where it was used to spice drinks , and in England in mediaeval times it was known as " sops-in-wine " , being mixed with wine and ale as a substitute for the costly cloves from the Far East . |
| 25 | Among her other political activities , she sympathised with the Boers and visited St. Helena when it was used to house prisoners from the South African War . |