Example sentences of "are use [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now that 24 hour pressure recordings are used increasingly for the investigation of disorders of oesophageal motility in patients with chest pain of undertermined origin , it is important to have a better understanding and a more precise characterisation of the non-deglutitive and non-peristaltic motor activity of the normal oesophagus . |
| 2 | Ritual sequences such as the Sinhalese wedding described above are made up of units which are used rather like the pieces in a game of dominoes . |
| 3 | Expert systems technology should be also seen as the integrating vehicle of those four generations with the operations systems that are used today in the aviation world . |
| 4 | The planters built magnificent wedding-cake mansions , which are used nowadays as the offices of banks and insurance companies on Merida 's main avenue , and sent their children to school in New Orleans or Havana . |
| 5 | Membranes are used both at the interface with the bulk sample and between the biolayer and the transducer ( Fig. 1 ) . |
| 6 | The reader might like to check that , if the second and third digits are used instead of the third and fourth , there will be seven synonyms instead of eight ( 00 , 01 , 01 , 04 , 09 , 12 , 12 ) . |
| 7 | In more detail , cacheing utilities are capable of amassing copies of data from frequently accessed areas of the hard disk , which are used instead of the disk versions — and they do n't have to be contiguous ( though if they are , things get faster still ) . |
| 8 | It has been said , in the first place , that they are used to throw into relief the particular property in the noun phrase which is of interest to the speaker ; that is , that adjectives are used postnominally for the sake of emphasis . |
| 9 | Bilingualism arises when two or more languages are used alternately by the same speaker . |
| 10 | The services taken by four of the departments are used exclusively within the department . |
| 11 | Hence public debt , irrespective of whether it is domestic or foreign owned , involves a cost-influencing choice : at the time the decision is made ‘ forgone opportunities are experienced ’ ( p. 182 ) , but this has ‘ no connection with the fact that resources are used up in the initial period ’ ( p. 182 ) . |
| 12 | Both are used exactly in the same way as the elastic . |
| 13 | However nicknames today are used mostly in the place of christian names and the hey-day of this use in Halling was probably during the period of the late 19th century and the early 20th century . |
| 14 | these are used transiently in the mouth , setting within minutes of mixing and placement . |
| 15 | Confusingly , the same terms are used also for the plant communities of these regions . |
| 16 | ICI 's catalysts are used extensively in the production of ammonia , hydrogen and methanol , although it is developing markets in refining petrochemicals and organic synthesis . |
| 17 | The Disabled Drivers Association has been helping disabled people since 1948 , and all donations are used explicitly for the benefit of disabled people . |
| 18 | These characteristics are the use of large columns to divide nave and choir from the aisles ; piers are used only at the crossing and then have slender clustered shafts . |
| 19 | Actually there are many stars with proper names , but in general these are used only for the first 30 or so , plus a few fainter stars of special interest — such as Polaris , Mizar in the Great Bear , and the variable star Mira , in Cetus , the Whale . |
| 20 | There is abundant evidence from a number of studies which shows that , apart from health visitors , these services are used more by the higher socio-economic groups . |
| 21 | ‘ They are used all over the school . ’ |
| 22 | This would be the case where an R&D programme and its objective are clearly defined and each of the parties is given the opportunity of exploiting any of the results that are of interest to it , or where the results are used solely for the purposes of further research . |
| 23 | Traditional Campa agriculture is based on garden or chacra plots which are used mainly for the cultivation of manioc , although plantains , bananas , sweet potatoes and beans are also grown on a smaller scale . |
| 24 | Falmouth has dockyards which now are used mainly for the repair of oil tankers and naval ships . |
| 25 | It is a fallacy , although a common one , that firewood , coal , dung and agricultural wastes are used mainly in the villages . |