Example sentences of "is used [prep] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ For the purposes of this Article an article or substance is not to be regarded as properly used where it is used without regard to any relevant information or advice relating to its use which has been made available by a person by whom it was designed , manufactured , imported or supplied . ’ |
| 2 | It is used with reference to education , and does not divide the pupils sharply into two groups with totally different needs . |
| 3 | In both cases where the context is available however , the bare infinitive is used in reference to the undergoing of unpleasant treatment , where the speaker clearly wishes to stress the realization of a distasteful experience which was forced upon him . |
| 4 | When compliance is not taken for granted , to is used in order to " futurize " the infinitive event 's actualization , i.e. to evoke it as something which the person receiving the request may or may not decide to do . |
| 5 | The ferry service has been discontinued since the construction of a temporary military bridge connecting Halling and Wouldham which is used in preference to the ferry to such an extent that the ferry service was discontinued by the proprietors . |
| 6 | In this book the word " guideline " is used in preference to the Latin . |
| 7 | There is a more inclusive meaning to the term ‘ incomer ’ , this is used in relation to both these small , local communities and , more important , in relation to Shetland as a whole . |
| 8 | When the term is used in relation to the human figure , the camera distance then comes down from hundreds of yards to tens of feet . |
| 9 | The final document is used throughout nursery to P7 stages . |
| 10 | And another advantage of these mechanisms of defence is they apply to other inputs to the ego , not just those from the er from the unconscious or from the organism itself but from the outside , for example the denial is a defence mechanism that can be used against reality and is used by psychotics to great and often disastrous effect . |
| 11 | The same insincere welcome is used by Macbeth to Macduff : ‘ The labour we delight in physics pain' ( II.iii.48f. ) , and at the news of Duncan 's murder Lady Macbeth is given one of the most brilliant pieces of hypocrisy Shakespeare ever invented : ‘ Woe , alas ! /What , in our house ? ’ |
| 12 | The same clay is used from year to year and takes about three hours to reconstitute by soaking in water and disinfectant . |